Golden Ears Bridge
The Golden Ears Bridge represented the largest privately financed greenfield PPP project in Canada at the time of its launch.
The project involves the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of the bridge, which is a 1km, six-lane road that spans the Fraser River and connects Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows to Langley and Surrey.
The road opened in June 2009 and includes more than 3.5km of ramps, viaducts, minor bridges and underpasses, and more than 13km of mainline roadway – a large part of which has been landscaped. In 2023, major rehabilitation works were successfully completed by the Portfolio Company, effectively de-risking large sections of pavement on the project.
Sustainability
In 2021, all the project’s lighting system was retrofitted to LED, effectively reducing energy consumption by 49% and preventing more than 273 metric tones of carbon emissions annually. The project also installed a continuous air quality monitor to measure fine particulate matter in the air with information uploaded to a cloud-based system that reports real-time air quality to the public. Lastly, the project actively monitors noise along the corridor and surrounding neighborhoods and manages a noise mitigation program that implements measures to reduce highway noise on neighboring communities.
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Awards / Recognitions
- Project Finance International North American Deal of the Year (2006)
- Project Finance (Euromoney) North American PPP Deal of the Year (2006)
- CCPPP Award for Innovation and Excellence – Gold, Financing category (2006)
- Infrastructure Journal Global Deal of the Year (2007)
- CCPPP Award for Innovation and Excellence – Silver, Infrastructure category (2009)
