Award Description

Project Participants

Owner – Brookfield Properties, Toronto, ON Canada
Architect/Designer – WZMH Architects, Toronto, ON Canada
Structural Engineer – Halcrow Yolles Partnership, Toronto, ON Canada
General Contractor – EllisDon Corporation, Mississauga, ON Canada
Concrete Contractor – Structform, Scarborough, ON Canada
Concrete Producer – Canada Building Materials, Toronto, ON Canada
Masonry Contractor – Clifford Masonry Ltd., Scarborough, ON Canada
Landscape Architect – Envision – The Hough Group, Toronto, ON Canada
Other – Shaheen Peaker –Coffey Geotechnics Inc., Toronto, ON Canada
Other – WR Grace – Ajax, ON Canada
Other – Carpenters Local 27, Woodbridge, ON Canada
Other – Harris Rebar, Mississauga, ON Canada
Other – Ironworkers Local 721, Toronto, ON Canada
Other – LIUNA Local 506, Toronto, ON Canada
Other – Erico, Grace Construction Products, Structural/Hardrock, Joint Venture, PERI Formwork Systems Inc., Walters Structural

Our client, Brookfield Properties Corporation, awarded us the project in January 2006, knowing we would effectively satisfy their needs in building the Bay Adelaide Centre. The project, a 52 story, 1.2 million square feet, office complex in downtown Toronto, presented unique challenges, both logistically and schedule-wise.

Initial enabling works entailed demolishing the existing 6 story core, which was abandoned in 1992, and two 13 stories adjacent office towers extending until January, 2007. This allowed only 25 months from shovel into the ground, excavating and shoring down 60 ft to the P4 level (5 levels below grade), back up to grade, up 52 floors, enclosed and substantially completed on all floors, ready for tenant fit up in February 2009.