The “MPA Delivery Partners” joint venture of Mace, Parsons, and Arcadis has won a $665m, 4.5-year contract extension to keep delivering the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project in New York.
The client is the Gateway Development Commission, the public authority in charge, which calls it the “most urgent” rail infrastructure project in the US because it will eliminate a serious chokepoint on the Northeast Corridor – the country’s busiest.
The corridor takes in the cities of Washington, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, and Boston, contributing 20% of the United States’ GDP.
Choking it is the 115-year-old North River twin rail tunnels under the Hudson River, which are badly in need of repair. Trains passing through them are delayed nearly two out of every three days owing to maintenance needs, the Commission says.
Scheduled for completion in 2038, the project will replace these two old rail tubes under the Hudson with four new ones by building a new twin-tube tunnel and rehabilitating the old North River tunnels.
Contractors will also build nine miles of new passenger track between New York and New Jersey.
The JV was appointed delivery partner for the project in February last year.
The project is reported to be on-schedule and is expected to create some 95,000 jobs and generate more than $19bn in economic activity.
Driving demand for steel and aggregates
Mace told GCR today that the project is driving demand for US suppliers of steel, aggregates, rail and track, and ventilation systems.
“Companies from North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alabama, Colorado, and Tennessee are benefiting from the Hudson Tunnel Project, unlocking the power of American ingenuity, and proving that the country is building again,” the company said.
“This is a once-in-a-generation project and a true collaboration between the public and private sectors that will serve as a model for delivering future mega-infrastructure projects around the world,” said Joe Marie, senior project executive for MPA Delivery Partners.
Mace Consult chief executive Davendra Dabasia said “this infrastructure investment will yield exponential benefits for the greater community, region and nation long after our work is done”.
- Subscribe here to get stories about construction around the world in your inbox three times a week
More about this:
