Market Experience
Kiewit is one of the largest transportation contractors in North America. We construct or upgrade interstate, highways and bridges as well as rail lines and rail yards, urban mass transit systems, and airport runways, taxiways and associated facilities. Our capabilities are reinforced by the largest privately-owned fleet of construction equipment in North America, which allows us to rapidly mobilize the necessary resources for any size of project. Engineering News-Record consistently ranks us among the top transportation contractors in the United States.
Over the last 10 years, Kiewit has constructed more than 1,100 transportation projects totaling more than $30 billion in contract revenue. These projects were delivered using traditional bid-build, design-build and A+B (a combination of price and schedule) procurements.
The Texas Department of Transportation awarded the DFW Connector contract to NorthGate Constructors, a Kiewit-led joint venture. The $1.02 billion project scope includes the development, design and construction of the 8.4-mile initial phase of the ultimate 14.4-mile project. The project will reduce congestion at the confluence of two of the area’s most heavily traveled highways, and ease access into DFW International Airport. Ultimately doubling the capacity of the existing highway corridor, the DFW Connector will rebuild portions of four highways, two interchanges, and five bridges.
After Sept. 11, the Department of Homeland Security closed the Folsom Dam Road. Kiewit Pacific Co. is constructing a new roadway to bypass Folsom Dam Road and accommodate the 26,000 cars that will use the bridge per day.
This $40 million design-build project included upgrades to 7 km. of the Sea-to-Sky Highway (Highway 99) from two to four lanes. Work was performed under existing highway traffic conditions, with minimal traffic closures and rerouting.
The $615 million Tacoma Narrows Bridge is the first long-span suspension bridge to be constructed in the United States since 1964. Completed in July 2007, the new 5,413-ft.-long bridge will include a high occupancy vehicle traffic lane, a separated bicycle/pedestrian walkway, an 8,000-sq.-ft. toll plaza building, and configurations for a future secondary roadway or transit deck.
To improve public transportation between Montreal and the North Shore as well as provide an alternate route for freight transportation, Kiewit is partnering with Parsons to design and build the extension of A-25, Quebec’s first public-private partnership project in the transportation market. Kiewit's priority has been to adhere to all environmental management standard guidelines throughout the project. Expected to be completed by 2011, the project will achieve greater sustainability in Canada's transportation system.
Age, heavy traffic and the effects of weather led to the New York City Department of Transportation’s decision to replace the Willis Avenue Bridge with a new swing bridge. The $612 million project includes construction of the new bridge and approaches as well as demolition of the existing bridge when the new bridge is open to traffic.