Ontario. Ministry of Transportation. Construction and Operations Branch

• Construction and Operations Branch

The Construction and Operations Branch was established in 1995 when the existing Transportation Operations Branch was renamed and partially re-organized.

While the Transportation Corridor Management Office, Equipment Engineering Office, and Maintenance Office remained largely the same (though the latter two sections were combined), the Traffic Management and Engineering Office was dissolved, and only partially replaced by the Traffic Program Management Office and Electrical Engineering Office.

At the same time, new sections which had once been part of the Acquisitions Standards Branch were added to the Construction and Operations Branch. These included the Qualifications Control Office, Estimating and Engineering Claims Office, Contract Management Office, and Property Office.

With the dissolution of the Quality and Standards Division 1998, the branch joined the Operations Division.

During the 1998-1999 fiscal year, the responsibilities of the branch narrowed when the Corridor Policy Office and Traffic Program Management Office were moved to the Engineering Standards Branch.

Apart from minor changes, the Construction and Operations Branch continued in the form it had taken as of this point, until ca. 2006 when it was renamed the Contract Management and Operations Branch, and was re-organized once again, including further changes in responsibilities.

The Construction and Operations Branch was responsible for the development of operational policies, procedures, service criteria and standards to ensure consistency and integration of the operation and maintenance of transportation services, infrastructure and related facilities, as well as evaluation and improvement of operational processes.

Specific areas of responsibility included resolving public claims against the ministry, management of transportation construction contracts, including development of policies and guidelines and preparing estimates prior to the tendering of contracts. The branch also oversaw development of standards and operating policies for the maintenance of the provincial highway system, and technical leadership in areas such as highway maintenance, sign manufacture etc. as well as responsibility for the ministry's vehicles and equipment, and the Government Garage.

Two further areas of activity included responsibility for the transportation corridor and the traffic program. The first involved creating policies and procedures for the transportation corridor program and reviewing development proposals with possible effects on provincial transportation. The second concerned development and implementation of policies, standards and procedures for traffic control devices and maintenance of traffic accident information. These two areas of responsibility were later removed after a re-organization.

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Government telephone directories; Keywords in Context (KWIC) indexes; Annual reports of the Ministry of Transportation.

Have closed off the predecessor authority record's timespan which was formerly "to present" and created new branch authority as there was a re-org. and this branch name was used for a long time.

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