Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) McNicoll Bus Garage
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Awarded as a design-build contract to a joint-venture consisting of Eastern Construction with Buttcon, the facility will act as a major transit operations and maintenance facility to accommodate 225 buses for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). The bus fleet consists of 40-foot standard buses and 60-foot articulated buses.
The maintenance facility includes heated indoor storage for 225 buses, crippled bus parking, two nightly service lanes with two service bays each, a special clean lane, administrative offices, support and ancillary areas to support the operations of the facility. The project includes a parking lot across the street for approximately 350 on-grade car parking spaces for staff and visitors. The maintenance shop consists of maintenance bays, brake shop, degrease shop, body shop, touch-up paint shop, inspection shop and tire shop. The transportation office includes the spaces required for the bus operators.
The bus service area is made up of fuel bays, automatic drive-through exterior bus wash bays and special bus clean bays.
TTC McNicoll was a BIM project starting from schematic design through to the development of the As-Built Model handed over to TTC. Level of Detail was set at 500.
Highlights
- CCDC-14 Contract (Design Build)
- New bus storage
- Maintenance infrastructure
- Administration, support offices and shops
- 350 on-grade car parking space
- Municipal client
- BIM LOD 500 As-built records
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