Three teams have been shortlisted by the Province of B.C. to submit a request for proposals to design and build a new 264th Street Interchange, a key component of the $2.3 billion improvements to Highway 1 between 264th Street and Mt. Lehman Road.
The new interchange will include improvements for active transportation, truck parking and public transit.
“The new 264th Street Interchange is essential for more efficient goods movement in our economy, given the Trans-Canada Highway’s importance to the provincial and national supply chain,” said Rob Fleming, minister of transportation and infrastructure. “These improvements are also critically important to create capacity for rapid public-transit service throughout the Fraser Valley region.”
Aecon-Norland General Partnership (a partnership between Aecon Constructors and Norland Projects Limited); KEA Fraser Valley Connectors (a joint venture between Kiewit Infrastructure BC ULC and Emil Anderson Construction Inc.); and Metro Vancouver (Infrastructure) Partnership (comprising Jacob Bros. Construction Inc., BD Hall Constructors Corp., and EBC Inc.) are the teams selected.
Following an evaluation of submissions, the province will choose the project’s design-build team. Construction will begin in late 2024.
The 264th Street Interchange and associated highway widening is one of the three major construction contracts that make up Phase 3A of the province’s Fraser Valley Highway 1 Corridor Improvement Program, a multi-phase program to improve goods movement and travel along Highway 1 in the Fraser Valley through the Sumas Prairie to Chilliwack.
The other two contracts will be upgrades to the Mt. Lehman Interchange and 3.7 kilometres of highway widening, and replacement of the Bradner Road overpass with 3.9 kilometres of highway widening. These contracts will go to tender in spring 2024 ahead of the construction season. Completion of Phase 3A is expected in 2029.
The widening of Highway 1 between 264th Street and Mt. Lehman Road has an approved budget of $2.3 billion.
