Contract 2: Highway 3 Widening From Essex to Leamington
Contract 1: Highway 3 Widening from Ellis to Essex
Project Background
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) retained Coco Paving Inc. (Coco) and Dillon Consulting Limited (Dillon) to complete the Design-Build (DB) contract for the Class Environmental Assessment (EA), Detailed Design and construction for the widening of Highway 3 from 0.8 km west of Ellis Side Road easterly to 2.2 km east of Essex County Road 23.
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To allow construction to move ahead in unison with the design process, three construction contracts will be produced. A Design and Construction Report (DCR) will be prepared for each of the three construction contracts and will be made available for a 30-day public review period.
Prior to this Design-Build Contract, the Highway 3 improvements underwent a Preliminary Design, initial Detail Design and Class EA phase, beginning in September 2012 and ending in November 2016. Included in the Preliminary Design phase was the completion of a Transportation Environmental Study Report (TESR) Addendum (November 2016). In September, 2020, an advanced work detail design and Class EA contract was also completed by Stantec Consulting Limited; the findings of which were published in a Design and Construction Report (DCR) made available for 30-day public review from September 17, 2020, to October 20, 2020. Copies of both previous publicly available design related documents are available below.
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