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Capital projects and infrastructure improvements

The City of Airdrie is currently overseeing the planning, budgeting and delivery of several major infrastructure investments within Airdrie. This includes roads, underground services (like utilities), parks, new buildings and major facility upgrades.

Facility projects

projectStatus/ Timelines
Fourth fire station
  • Currently under construction.
  • Estimated completion date is fall 2026.
Administration campus - Downtown
  • Design completion Q1 2026
  • Construction anticipated to be completed Q4 2026
  • Staff populated by Q4 2026
Public Works satellite site (Snow storage building - Dickson Stevens Trail)
  • Includes snow storage and cold storage. A new evaporation pond is planned for the next phase.
  • The site will support daily public works operations on eight acres of developable land.

Transportation and road projects

projectStatus/ Timelines
Yankee Valley Boulevard widening (8th Street to QEII)
  • This project will expand the existing four-lane divided roadway to six lanes and update the CPKC crossing to meet current standards. 
  • Design will be complete in 2026.
Nose Creek bridge (8 Street North of Veteran's Boulevard)
  • Construction of a temporary bridge estimated to start spring of 2026. 
  • New bridge completion is estimated for 2027.
Road rehabilitation program

Park projects

projectStatus/ Timelines
Chinook Winds site upgrades
  • Clean up of remaining material piles, site levelling for proper drainage and minor landscaping with site furniture installation.
Northeast (NE) Regional Park
  • The City acquired 186 acres in 2021 for a regional park. A Master Site Plan—based on City reports, community needs and site characteristics—was developed and will guide phased construction.
  • Completing the Phase 1B construction with Phase 2 design underway.
  • Learn more about the NE Regional Park
Parks pathway replacement
  • Asphalt pathways in poor condition will be replaced across Airdrie starting June 2026. 
Parks pedestrian bridges

Water and sewer projects

projectStatus/ Timelines
Wildflower booster pump station & Key Ranch control valve
  • Construction of new pump station to accommodate growth and fire flow demand in the west Airdrie pressure zone. The control valve will:
    • Generate an artificial demand on the High West Pressure Zone during the early stages of development to ensure adequate water turnover in the distribution system.
    • Act as a traditional pressure reducing valve, allowing water from the higher zone to flow into the main pressure zone when there is a pressure reduction in the main pressure zone.
    • In the future, control flow from the High West Reservoir into the main pressure zone.
Lift station 8 (South Regional lift station) and connections
  • Conceptual and preliminary design of the sewer infrastructure to service the southeast quadrant of Airdrie and its future developments. 
  • The sewer forcemains will begin at a lift station located in the future Queensview development and route across Highway 2, Nose Creek and the CPKC rail line onward to join the gravity sanitary trunk to Calgary.
South Airdrie sewer connection site
  • Design and construction of the diversion and interconnection of the three existing forcemains, presently pumping all the way to Calgary, to the new gravity trunk from Airdrie to Calgary.
  • Allows the existing lift stations to pump a much shorter distance and create more interim capacity. The three forcemains will be diverted from the existing utility right of way to the interconnection site where a new combined valving, energy dissipating and odour control building will combine the flows onward to the sanitary trunk.
Wastewater Gravity Trunk to Calgary
  • Feasibility, engineering design and construction delivery of a new regional sanitary trunk sewer to convey wastewater from the City of Airdrie to the City of Calgary’s Nose Creek Trunk to support long-term sustainable growth, protect the environment, and strengthens inter-municipal servicing between Airdrie and Calgary. The scope includes: 
    • Approximately seven km of large-diameter gravity sanitary sewer within an existing utility right-of-way extending through Airdrie, Rocky View County and into Calgary.
      The sanitary trunk will replace reliance on long forcemains and lift station pumping, improving system reliability, reducing operational risk and enabling gravity conveyance of projected peak wet weather flows beyond the year 2065.
    • Detailed coordination with existing critical infrastructure and environmental features along the corridor. This encompasses crossings of major transportation corridors, watercourses, wetlands, rail infrastructure and key utilities, as well as required environmental permitting, regulatory approvals, and constructibility planning. Construction methods will include a combination of open-cut, shored excavation, and trenchless installation, with provisions for temporary bypassing of the forcemains to maintain uninterrupted wastewater service during construction.
Sierra Springs lift station upgrades
  • Modification and upgrades to the existing facility to increase wastewater discharge capacity from 130 to 210 litres per second. This is an interim measure to accommodate additional future development.
Balzac interchange utility adjustments
  • Necessary adjustments to city water and wastewater infrastructure in the proposed interchange footprint at Highway 566 and QE2 highway.
East Lake Road booster pump station
  • Construction of a new facility to accommodate a new industrial subdivision in Northeast Airdrie (East Points). The facility will use water from the existing Main pressure zone to the NE pressure zone, rather than constructing new storage infrastructure. It will supplement potable water flow to the northeast zone at a flow of up to 200 litres per second.
Oil grit separators (OGS) program
  • A 5-year program to improve stormwater quality at outfall locations (drainage facilities that convey partially treated stormwater into Nose Creek), using OGS units to remove contaminants before discharge into Nose Creek.
  • Treatment will be provided by installing oil/grit separators, which provide stormwater quality improvements.
Sagewood canal stormwater management improvements
  • This project will see the construction of a high-flow bypass between the South Sagewood Pond and the Genesis Canals Pond (Canals Pond) to alleviate the excessive water levels observed in the South Sagewood Pond, and frequent overland flows between the two wet ponds.

  • Construction to begin in Spring 2026.
Sewer rehabilitation program
  • Targeted repairs in high-priority areas where existing sanitary infrastructure has either failed or is likely to fail in the near future, or pipes that are at or near capacity for flow.
  • In 2026, work includes Flett Crescent.
Water distribution rehabilitation
  • Targeted replacements of aging or at-capacity water pipes. 
  • Work in 2026 includes Flett Crescent.

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