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Boulder, Colo.-based Flatiron has picked up two new ones resilience projects worth about $350 million combined, the company announced in a February 1 press release. The contractor will build flood protection infrastructure in Virginia Beach, Virginia and storm surge upgrades in Port Arthur, Texas.
Resilience work, which has become an important market for Flatiron, the release said, aims to help communities prepare for the impacts of storm surge, sea level rise and other threats environmental problems exacerbated by climate change. The company has about $350 million in resiliency work already underway in New York and New Jersey.
Virginia Beach, Virginia, resilience work
The City of Virginia Beach chose Flatiron for the first phase of a resiliency project that aims to improve stormwater management, protect fresh water supplies and alleviate widespread flooding in the Windsor Woods neighborhoods, Princess Anne Plaza and The Lakes. Amsterdam-based Arcadis was chosen as the subcontractor for the design work.
The project was initially valued at $225 million to $275 million and is being built under a progressive design-build contract. The project team will work to mitigate project risks and develop a cost-effective design and construction schedule, according to the release.
The work is part of Virginia Beach’s comprehensive flood protection infrastructure program designed to protect the city’s assets. Significant elements of the project include water storage and drainage improvements through the use of large pumping stations, tidal gates to minimize tidal and flood impacts, and flood barriers along with drainage channel improvements .
Port Arthur, Texas storm surge improvements
The Army Corps of Engineers selected Flatiron to build $102 million in surge protection upgrades at three pumping stations in Port Arthur, Texas, to better protect the energy-producing region from the impacts of extreme weather and sea level rise.
The work includes earth dikes, concrete wall replacement, dike shielding, replacement of a lock gate and replacement of roads near the pump stations. Preliminary work is expected to begin this month, according to the statement.
Flatiron is also working on other resilience projects.
Whitestone, New York-based EE Cruz, a heavy civil construction contractor jointly owned by Flatiron and Turner Construction, is building flood protection in Hoboken, New Jersey. The $251 million contract is part of the Hudson River Resilience Project.
A progressive design-build team from EE Cruz and Turner Construction is also building the $631 million City of North & West Battery Park Resilience Project in New York City. The project will include approximately 8,000 linear feet of flood and seepage barriers, including a West Street deployable barrier crossing that extends uptown to Tribeca, to protect one of the most vulnerable spots in lower Manhattan for to storm surge flooding.
