Overview

• Name: Rehabilitation of Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine
• Client: VINCI
• Contract Value: $726 m
• Contract Type: Project Management
• Sector: Infrastructure
• Timeline: Oct – 2021 – July- 2025
• Location: Longueuil, Quebec,

Description:

VINCI awarded contract by Quebec authorities for the rehabilitation of Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel, Montreal to enhance safety and optimize traffic.

The tunnel was opened in 1967 and is the longest underwater structure in Canada, covering a distance of 1.5 km beneath the Saint-Lawrence River. It is a strategic transport corridor for the Montreal urban area, linking the eastern part of the Island of Montreal to the city of Longueuil. Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel carries 120,000 vehicles a day.

The rehabilitation aims to improve tunnel safety, optimize traffic and promote car sharing and public transport.

The contract, worth €726 million (C$1,142 million), calls for the financing, design and execution of rehabilitation works. The works will be carried out between early 2021 and July 2025.

Which include access roads, widening the A20 motorway with the addition of a new bus and car sharing lane, as well rehabilitating 25 km of pavement (on the A25 and A20) and an interchange.

Tunnel: repairing the structure; installing new fire protection facings; landscaping and architectural finishes; modernizing all electrical, electromechanical and supervisory infrastructures, as well as deploying new technologies to increase operator and user safety (fire safety equipment and smoke evacuation systems).

Falex is sharing the burden with VINCI for Project Planning, Budgeting and Cost Estimation and installation of MEP System for the grand rehabilitation of Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel.