COVER FEATURE
BUILDING THE
REGINA BYPASS
Bermingham Foundation
Solutions drives pile for
the massive infrastructure
project taking place in
Saskatchewan’s Queen City
By Mark Halsall
With a price tag of almost $2 billion, the Regina
Bypass is the largest single infrastructure proj-ect
in the history of Saskatchewan. The new
urban bypass route connects the Trans-Canada
Highway with Highway 11, the province’s main north-south
corridor that links Regina with Saskatoon, and in addi-tion
to relieving traffic congestion, it’s expected to make a
vital contribution to the continued growth and prosperity
of Saskatchewan.
The Regina Bypass project is being undertaken as a public-private
joint venture and the Province of Saskatchewan
is footing much of the bill, which includes a construction
budget of $1.2 billion. The design-build consortium that’s
managing construction includes the Saskatchewan Ministry
of Highways and Infrastructure as well Vinci Infrastructure
Canada Ltd., Carmacks Enterprises Ltd., Graham Infrastruc-ture
LP and Parsons Canada Ltd.
Work on the Regina Bypass began in 2015 and is sched-uled
for completion in 2019. Due to the size of the project,
construction has been split into three zones, with Area 1 to
the north, Area 2 to the south and Area 3 to the east of the
City of Regina.
The full scope of the project includes 40 kilometres of
new four-lane highway, 20 kilometres of resurfaced four-lane
highway, 55 kilometres of new service roads and dozens of
highway overpasses.
To complete the extensive bridge construction required
for the project, the Regina Bypass consortium has relied on
the expertise of Bermingham Foundation Solutions to per-form
much of the piling work. The Hamilton, Ontario-based
company performed the deep foundation work needed for 14
bridge structures in Areas 1 and 2, starting in late 2016 and
ending in November 2017.
“This was definitely a good-sized piling project,” said Brian
Abele, construction manager for Bermingham Foundation
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