British Columbia’s government-owned hydro company has launched an RFP for a small town, looking for a company to design, build, partly finance, operate and maintain a temporary community that will house workers building a massive generation project.

The hydro project, Site C on the Peace River, has not received all approvals but BC Hydro is hoping to have the Cdn $7.9-billion project (including inflation and interest during construction totaling Cdn $2.3 billion) operating by 2022.