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Mount Pleasant Station Captures Award from American Shotcrete Association

Station part of Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit, Mount Pleasant Station, Toronto, Ontario | WSP, Infrastructure, Ground Engineering and Materials, Tunneling Consultant

WSP has captured the Outstanding Shotcrete Project of the Year Award in the Infrastructure Category from the American Shotcrete Association (ASA). The award was presented at ASA’s 18th Annual Outstanding Shotcrete Project Awards, held on February 28th as part of the 2023 ASA Shotcrete Convention and Technology Conference in Ojai, California.

“Our team is extremely proud to receive this award for this important component of the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) Project. I want to extend my deepest thanks and congratulations to Shaun Radomski, Dr. Dudly Morgan, and our colleagues in delivering such an excellent piece of work,” said Benoît Latapie, National Vice President, Ground Engineering and Materials, WSP. “The project team came together to recognize that shotcrete was the right solution for this complex underground tunneling job. It took a great deal of collaboration and innovative spirit from our team of world-class experts to deliver this eco-friendly solution; and the final results have shown that it was the right decision.”

Shotcrete, a high-velocity sprayed concrete usually used for overhead and vertical applications, was chosen over cast-in-place concrete because it could provide the high-quality, up to 1.5 metres thick, heavily-reinforced transit station walls requested by the project owner while providing a savings in both cost and time. The successful implementation led to the use of the same technique on four additional stations within the Eglinton Crosstown LRT Project.

“This project is an excellent example of what we can accomplish when we work together, as project partners, on large-scale projects such as these,” says Latapie. “We can have an open discussion on the available solutions, and ultimately deliver something that provides savings to the client and a quality end product.”

The team involved in the Mount Pleasant Station solution were: WSP E&I Canada Ltd., Torrent Shotcrete, and Crosslinx Transit Solutions Designers and Constructors, a general partnership comprised of SNC-Lavalin Constructors (Pacific) Inc., Dragados Canada Inc., EllisDon Civil Ltd. and Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc., the consortium group delivering the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

The award marks WSP’s first win in the category since 2011, when then-Genivar was part of the Portage Bridge 2010 Structure Rehabilitation project in Ottawa was honoured in the infrastructure category.

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