Market Experience
Kiewit is one of the largest transportation contractors in North America. We've constructed more lane-miles of interstate, highways and bridges than any other contractor. We've also built or upgraded 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 15 years, Kiewit has constructed more than 1,800 transportation projects totaling more than $23 billion in contract revenue. These projects were delivered using traditional bid-build, design-build and A+B (a combination of price and schedule) procurements.
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 Autoroute 25, Quebec’s first public-private partnership project in the transportation market. The scope of work involves constructing 7.2 kilometers of a new four-lane highway and a six-lane cable-stayed bridge.
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.
In less than 18 months, a Kiewit-led joint venture completed Phase I of the Greater Toronto Area‘s first bus rapid transit system. The team developed innovative design solutions to meet the project‘s technological challenges including real-time electronic bus arrival displays and a computer-aided dispatch transit control center with GPS.