Construction Broadsheet - Wed November 15, 2023
AECOM to Lead $700M Design-Build Project in Texas
Construction, engineering and industry consulting firm AECOM recently said it has been named lead designer for Lone Star Constructors' $700 million design-build contract for the Interstate (I)-35 Northeast Expansion (NEX) South project in San Antonio (Bexar County), Texas....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 13, 2023
Fluor Builds Elevated Lanes, Bridges On $548M Job in Texas
As part of a $4 billion effort spearheaded by the Texas Department of Transportation, Fluor Corporation began work on the I-35 Capital Express South project. This portion of the massive Lone Star State project is valued at $548 million....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 31, 2023
Austin's $4B CAP Project Reshapes Highway
Fluor Corporation began work on the Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) $548 million I-35 Capital Express South project, which is part of the multi-billion dollar I-35 Capital Express program taking place in Austin....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 11, 2023
PLC Delivers Dallas Highway Project
If you've taken a drive through Dallas recently, you may have noticed something different about Interstate 35: it's wider. Pegasus Link Constructors, which brought together Balfour Beatty U.S....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue December 27, 2022
Officials Celebrate Billion Dollars Worth of Projects in Texas
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), which is overseeing a major multi-billion dollar expansion of the state's highway network via road and bridge construction, officially launched a new highway project in the Fort Worth/Dallas area (Tarrant County) and marked the completion of another....
ARTBA - Mon July 18, 2022
Fluor Executives, LaGuardia Airport, Transurban Receive National Public-Private Partnership Awards
Fluor Corp. Project Director Roya Noorbakhsh, Fluor Corp. Communications Manager Laura Ware, La Guardia Airport's Terminal B project and Transurban's Express Lanes community grant program in northern Virginia have been recognized as models of excellence in transportation leadership, finance and innovation, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) announced July 14....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Tue July 12, 2022
Colorado River Constructors Rebuild U.S. 290 in $674M Job
According to the U.S. Census estimates, Austin showed one of the largest population gains of any metro area in the United States. The city grew by more than 53,000 people in a single year, representing the fourth largest increase in the country....
FLUOR - Tue June 14, 2022
Fluor Receives Half-Billion Dollar Contract for I-35 Project
Fluor Corporation (FLR) announced recently that it was awarded a construction contract for the Interstate 35 (I-35) Capital Express South project in Austin, Texas, by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)....
TxDOT - Wed April 20, 2022
TxDOT Gives Green Light to Contractor for $641M Job
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has issued Lone Star Constructors (Lone Star), a joint venture between Fluor Heavy Civil LLC and Irving, Texas-based Austin Bridge & Road LP, a notice to proceed on a $641.7 million design-build contract for the expansion and reconstruction of approximately 6.3 mi....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed February 16, 2022
Work Continues On $5.7B Gordie Howe International Bridge Between Detroit and Windsor, Canada
Despite less than ideal weather conditions, construction crews in Detroit, Mich., and Windsor, Canada, are working through the winter on the $5.7 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge project. The design-build project is being led by Dragados Canada, Fluor and Aecon....
