Project director uses variety of skills with a touch of philosophy to keep the New York region’s first major public-private parrtnership bridge project on track.
The new LBJ Express, a 13-mile-long, $2.7-billion P3 project, crosses two municipalities within Dallas County, Texas, and doubles the existing capacity of the highway corridor, one of the busiest in the nation.
Originally scheduled for completion late this year, the new 4,300-ft-long Midtown Tunnel between Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., is now on track for completion by the end of the summer.
Infrastructure boosters rallied for their cause earlier this month at a series of gatherings in Washington, D.C. and other U.S. locations to find ways to shrink the estimated $1.4-trillion funding gap to upgrade aging highways, bridges, water systems and other public works.
The Interstate 285/S.R. 400 interchange reconstruction, Georgia’s first public-private partnership to be financed with a tax-exempt bank loan, has received a notice to proceed.
On March 2, SH 130 Concession Co. LLC—the private entity that designed and built and now operates and maintains Segments 5 and 6 of SH 130, a 41-mile portion of the total 91-mile roadway—filed for Chapter 11 protection in the Western District of Texas.
The landscape of alternative construction project delivery, such as design-build and public-private partnerships (P3s) in the freight and rail transportation industries is rapidly evolving as alternatives to the traditional design-bid-build delivery method.
