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Buildings
$1-Billion Contract Awarded for WTC Transit Hub
(newyork.construction.com,
April 2006 issue)
A new phase of work is beginning on
the $2 billion World Trade Center transportation hub following
the award by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
of a $1 billion contract to a joint venture composed of four
large contractors and construction managers.
Since construction started last September
on the hub, the Port Authority has been using call-in contractors
to do preliminary work, according to an agency spokesman.
The new award is for the construction of approximately 3,000
ft. of pedestrian tunnels that will eventually connect ferries
at the World Financial Center to the new hub and to Metropolitan
Transportation Authority subway lines.
The winning team, which calls itself
Phoenix Constructors, consists of Slattery Skanska, a division
of Skanska USA Civil that is based in Queens; New York's Bovis
Lend Lease; the Granite Construction Northeast subsidiary
of Granite Construction, which is based in Watsonville, Calif.;
and Fluor Enterprises, based in Aliso Viejo, Calif.
Work was scheduled to begin in March
on the design by the architectural joint venture consultant
of New York-based STV, New York-based DMJM Harris, and Spanish
architect Santiago Calatrava, who is the design architect.
A partial opening is planned for 2009.
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