april 2014
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INHOUSE
Industry Spotlight
pan am Games
relies on p3s to get
the job done
The lion's share of pan am spending is allocated
to three bundles of projects being built using a
public-private partnership model.
by jim middlemiss
BERT CLARK HAS A DEADLINE to
meet, and it can't be missed.
Clark, a lawyer, is president and chief
executive offi cer of Crown corporation
Infrastructure Ontario and his organiza-
tion is responsible for ensuring contractors
fi nish some of the key sites being built
for the 2015 Pan American/Parapan Am
Games in Toronto.
"The buildings are coming up quickly,"
says Clark. "We have nine sports facili-
ties from pools to soccer stadiums to fi eld
hockey venues. They are well underway."
The Pan American games is one of the
country's biggest infrastructure projects.
