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Skanska builder and developer based in Stockholm has won $ 303 million Massachusetts Dot design design contract To build a new bridge in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Rourke’s reconstructed bridge will bring Wood Street on the Merrimack River, according to Tuesday’s announcement. The project’s work began in May 2025, with the completion scheduled for the spring of 2030. Jacobs Engineering, based in Dallas, will serve as a project architect, he told Construction Dive a Skanska spokesman.
“The reconstruction of the new Rourke bridge will support even more to the planned growth of this region to adapt to the future demand of traffic and improve the general security and operational efficiency at this junction of the Merrimack River,” said Paul Pedini, a Senior Vice President of Civil Skanska Operations, in the statement.
It The current Rourke bridge was built In 1983 as a temporary bridge and wearing about 27,000 daily vehicles, on the project’s website. The website says that the vehicle’s capacity is poor and its bicycle and pedestrian features do not meet current standards.
The new area of the project includes a bridge of seven species, the reconstruction of the intersection at both ends of the new bridge, accommodation for bicycles and pedestrians, as well as improvements in rainwater infrastructure, road lighting, landscaping and utility transfers. The existing Rourke bridge will remain open to use it until the end of the new structure. Once the new period is opened, the existing bridge will be demolished.
But Massachusetts Span is not the only news that Skanska announced on Tuesday.
The firm said he has signed a supplementary contract worth $ 240 million with Virginia Tech a Build a new College of Engineering building.
The original project work began with the demolition of Randolph Hall, in Blacksburg, in Virginia, 166,000 square feet Building built in phases This ended in 1952 and 1959.
The construction will continue now, Skanska said, on the renovation of the existing Hancock Hancock Hall to tie to the construction of the Mitchell Hall Hall, five-story, approximately 307.00 square feet.
At the end, Mitchell Hall will host five departments: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering Education.
The work began in the spring of 2024 with the demolition of Randolph Hall and the project has a target completion of 2028.
