Engineer, consultant and former owner-manager of Spino Construction, Nunzio Spino has acquired solid knowledge and extensive experience in accomplishing large-scale construction projects, including tunnels, subways, excavation and concreting works, watermains and sewers. His technical expertise, estimating and analysis skills as well as his project management expertise are a valuable asset to bring your construction projects to life.

List of Works Performed

Lower Mattagami River Project (Smoky Falls)

Hydroelectric Power Plant
The Mattagami River in northern Ontario
Built in Design-Build (Design and Construction)
Winter 2010 to Summer 2015
Amount: Confidential
Client: Ontario Power Generation

Autoroute 25, Montreal

Project for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a portion of the A-25 in greater Montreal area
Project Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project built in Design-Build (Design and Construction)
September 2007 to May 2011
Amount: Confidential
Client: Ministère des Transports du Québec

East-West Highway in Algeria

Built in Design-Build (Design and Construction)
1400 km road section of the Maghreb highway from Tunisia to Morocco
Summer 2006 to fall 2010
Amount: €10 billion
Client: Agence nationale des autoroutes

South Ottawa Sewer Collector

Screen & Degrit Building Connection & By-pass Contract # CS-3009
April 93 to Nov. 94
Amount: $3M
Client: Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton

South Ottawa Sewer Collector, Contract # CS-1041

3,300 m concrete-lined tunnel (3 m dia.) in soft ground of which a portion was constructed in compressed-air
May 92 to July 95
Amount: $17M
Client: Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton

Excavation and Concreting of the Pentstocks at LA-1

Excavation and Concreting of the Pentstocks at LA-1, James Bay, Quebec (see article from «Tunnels and Tunnelling»)
Mar. 90 to July 91
Amount: $20M
Client: Société d’Énergie de la Baie James

South Interceptor Completion of Section 6.4

Completion of works not completed by another contractor (see «Mission Impossible» article)
Nov. 88 to July 91
Amount: $15M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Reynolds’ Aluminum Plant Extension

Baie Comeau, Quebec 1,000 m of 2.5 m dia. sewer tunnel in rock and miscellaneous excavation and concreting with plant in operation
Aug. 89 to Apr. 90
Amount: $3M
Client: Reynolds’ Aluminum

Subway Line N°2

Cote Vertu Rear Station, 100 m of two-way tunnel (7,400 mm) in soft ground
Mar. 88 to Oct. 89
Amount: $5M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Subway Duvernay Connection Center

600 m of 7,400 mm two-way tunnel in rock
July 87 to Mar. 89
Amount: $3M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Riverside Collector Sewer

2,000 m of 3 m dia. concrete-lined tunnel in bad quality rock
Oct. 86 to Dec. 88
Amount: $7M
Client: City of Montreal

22nd Ave. Collector Sewer

1,000 m of 2 m dia. concrete-lined tunnel in rock
May 86 to Apr. 88
Amount: $3M
Client: City of Montreal

South Interceptor, Section 4.2

7,000 m of 1.8 m dia. concrete-lined sewer tunnel in rock of bad to excellent quality
Dec. 84 to Mar. 88
Amount: $22M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Lapiniere Interceptor

800 m of 1.5 m dia. reinforced concrete pipe pushed into place (Pipe Jacking) in soft ground
Aug. 85 to Mar. 86
Amount: $3M
Client: City of Laval

2.1m dia. watermain and 3.5 dia. sewer

By cut-and-cover the construction of a 3.5 m dia. sewer in the center of Montreal
Sept. 84 to May 86
Amount: $6M
Client: City of Montreal

The Bizard Island Connection Conduit

2 m dia. tunnel 1,000 m long under the Des Prairies River
Aug. 84 to Dec. 85
Amount: $3M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Cut-and-cover sewers and watermains

On Taillon and St Donat streets
June 84 to Oct. 84
Amount: $1M
Client: City of Montreal

Spino Construction

Renovation of Own Offices (Gen. Construction and Overseeing Consultants)
April 84 to Nov. 84
Amount: $1M
Client: Spino Construction

Collector sewers built by cut-and-cover

Corporation municipale de St-Jean-Baptiste
May 84 to Nov. 84
Amount: $2M
Client: Société québécoise d’assainissement des eaux

Contrat N°84-G-2

Boul. Fernand Lafontaine Sewers, watermains, roads and sidewalks
June. 84 to Sept. 84
Amount: $1M
Client: City of Longueuil, Quebec

Darlington Generating Station

Cooling Water Discharge Tunnel for a nuclear-electric generating plant 9 m dia. by 1,800 m long under Lake Ontario with 90 diffuser-shafts, 1 m dia. by 20 m deep in this same lake
Sept. 83 to Mar. 86
Amount: $16M
Client: Ontario Hydro

Subway Line N°5

Snowdon Rear Station. 255 m of two-way tunnel (7,200 mm) in rock
May 83 to Aug. 84
Amount: $3M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Touraine Collector

3,000′ of 5’0″ reinforced concrete pipe (RCP) pushed into place (Pipe Jacking) in soft ground and 10,000′ of RCP placed by cut-and-cover
Feb. 83 to Aug. 84
Amount: $7M
Client: Communauté régionale de l’Outaouais

Subway Line N°5 Vincent d’Indy-Outremont Section

140 m of subway station (13 m) in tunnel in bad quality rock
April 82 to Sept. 82
Amount: $2M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Darlington Generating Station

Construction of the 8 m dia. by 900 m long Cooling Water Intake Tunnel for a nuclearelectric generating plant
Nov. 81 to Aug. 83
Amount: $11M
Client: Ontario Hydro

Subway Line N°5 L’Acadie Section

Construction of a two-way tunnel (7,200 mm) in rock approximately 1,000 m in length
May 81 to Dec. 82
Amount: $7M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Autoroute Ville-Marie

1,400′ of cut-and-cover highway tunnel in the center of Montreal
(Joint Venture)
Nov. 80 to Dec. 82
Amount: $35M
Client: Quebec Ministry of Transport

Regional Sanitary Interceptor

A 9’6″ tunnel excavated in clay 12,400′ long
June 80 to Jan. 82
Amount: $9M
Client: Communauté régionale de l’Outaouais

Dyke at LG4 in James Bay

Construction of a 10,000,000 cu. m. dyke
Hydroelectric Project
(Joint Venture)
Oct. 79 to June 83
Amount: $75M
Client: Société d’Énergie de la Baie James

Subway Line N°2 , de la Savane-du College Section

23′ concrete-lined tunnel in rock 10,000 long
Jan. 79 to Aug. 81
Amount: $16M
Client: Montreal Urban Community

Outfall for the Sewage Treatment Plant

A 20′ dia. concrete-lined tunnel in both earth and rock 18,000′ in length under the St. Lawrence River
May 77 to Sept. 80
Amount: $42M
Client: Montreal Urban Community