TORONTO — Hitachi Rail will open a new Canadian headquarters in Toronto, the company announced today.
The 125,000-square-foot headquarters will span 5.5 floors at Consilium Place, a three-building complex in Toronto’s Scarborough district, and is due to open this summer. It will host the company’s Global CBTC Competence Centre, which provides engineering and technical expertise for Communications-Based Train Control projects worldwide. The headquarters will be the base for 1,100 employees and 100 paid interns, and will feature a gym, day care, and EV charging stations.
“This Ca$30 million investment reinforces our commitment to Ontario and builds on our rail technology leadership in Canada,” Arnaud Besse, chief operating officer, Hitachi Rail Canada, said in a press release. “Our new state-of-the-art office will attract the next generation of new tech talent to Hitachi Rail. It will also be the hub for the next generation signaling technology that will increase capacity, improve reliability, and reduce costs for transit systems around the world.
The opening follows the announcement of a Ca$100 million commitment to develop next-generation SelTrac CBTC technology, which will integrate artificial intelligence and 5G wifi. Hitachi says that resignaling of four London Underground lines increased peak passenger capacity by 33%.
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