Public + Government

TTC McNicoll Bus Garage // Scarborough

Awarded as a design-build contract to a joint-venture between Eastern Construction and Buttcon, the garage will act as a major transit operations and maintenance facility to accommodate 225 buses for the 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.

“COVID-19 really threw us a curve ball; but, fortunately we were considered an essential project and kept going, and the Eastern + Buttcon joint venture did a great job in maintaining site safety. They really came through finishing the job on time.” —Jason MacDonald, TTC Project Manager

Project Details:

Toronto Transit Commission // Joint Venture: Strasman Architects + Morrison Hershfield
$149.6M » 312,000 sq ft » 2020

Award
2020 – Metal Architecture Design Award (Notable Project)