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On Thursday 27th April, Dr. Sauer & Partners’ Senior Tunnel Engineer in North America, Elmar Feigl will take to the stage as part of the TAC's series of monthly talks. He will present our work at Cedarvale Station on the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Line.

We are delighted that the Tunnelling Association of Canada has selected the GO Expansion: Highway 401 and 409 Twin SEM Tunnels Project as the as the 2022 recipient of its Canadian Project of the Year (Over $100M CAD) Award.

With future extensions of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line due to commence in the near future, this short video by World Infra gives a good overview of the future plans for the entire line.

The Highway 401 and 409 Rail Tunnel is a Metrolinx project delivered in partnership with Infrastructure Ontario.  The two new 180 m tunnels constructed under 21 lanes of one of the busiest highways in North America will provide a capacity increase on the Kitchener GO line helping to bring more frequent, all-day, two-way service on core segments of the network and even allowing for double-stacked freight. 

Dr. G. Sauer & Partners is proud to announce that it is part of the Dragados Inc. lead team with AECOM as the Design Prime being short-listed as one of three for the pursuit of the Scarborough Subway Extension SRS (Station, Rail System) project.

The TAC, (Tunnelling Association of Canada) celebrated its second physical event of the year last week following on from a very successful TAC 2020-one conference that was took place earlier in October. 

Sunday 15th November 2020 marked the next major milestone for the project, breakthrough of Tunnel 2 was executed and with this the most difficult and challenging part of excavation for the project completed. Congratulations to all of the project team on this momentous occasion.

Laird, Avenue and Oakwood crowned winners of the Tunnelling Association of Canada's Canadian Project of the Year Award 2020.

The highway 401 Rail Tunnel project consists of two tunnels, each 188m long with a maximum overburden of 2-5m. Dr. Sauer & Partners delivered the tunnel design for the Toronto Tunnel Partners (TTP).

View the Metrolinx time-lapse video showing the various stages of the construction at Laird Station.