Ontario Bar Association Award

The Award recognizes Harvey’s exceptional achievements, contributions and leadership in the practice of construction and infrastructure law. He has had more than 40 years of experience in the arbitration, mediation and litigation of complex construction claims and disputes arising out of significant infrastructure, public-private partnership (P3), transportation, energy, resource, industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential projects, both domestically and internationally.

Some of the major projects in which he has been involved include the Toronto Transit Commission’s $900 million Sheppard Subway and $3 billion Spadina Subway Extension; the Rt. Hon. Herb Gray Parkway (Windsor to Detroit); the Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts; the Greater Toronto Airport Authority (Lester B. Pearson International Airport); University of Toronto; the Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel; the Toronto Archives; The Residences at the Ritz Carlton; the Deerhurst Resort; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Rogers Place Arena (Edmonton); Universal Studios (Orlando, Florida); and the Keystone Pipeline; as well as a wide range of other facilities – both public and private – including tunnels, bridges, transportation facilities, roads and highways, stadiums and arenas, water and wastewater plants, hospitals and healthcare facilities, court houses, manufacturing and distribution facilities, commercial office towers, high-rise condominiums and hotels, municipal projects, schools, shopping centers, and a range of energy projects including co-generation, hydro-electrical transmission, and nuclear facilities.

His website and professional bio may be accessed at http://kirshadr.com/.