The Gateway Development Commission voted on February 3 to approve a $ 1.2 million design building contract with Frontier-Joemper-Tutor Perini JV for the Manhattan end of the Hudson River Tunnel of 16 million Northern New Jersey and New York City. The Council of the Commission also voted to issue a notice to proceed with the contractor.
The extent of the contractor’s work will cover about 700 feet of the two tunnels of 30 feet of day from the wall of Manhattan to Hudson Yards. The contractor will also be responsible for building an access axis on the 12th Avenue, which will later become a permanent ventilation structure and eliminate the obstruction that may slow or damage the tunnel boring machines (TBMS). Hamed Nejad, a acting technical director of Gateway, said during a meeting that the JV developed a plan to use a combination of sequential excavation method and a protective protection shield that will save time on the calendar.
“This is the most exciting and difficult contract that we will have,” he said.
Perini JV, Frontier-Kemper-Tutor, overcome two other Halmar International LLC teams with FCC Construction Inc. and Skanska USA Civil Northeast Inc., Treylor Bros. Inc. and Walsh Construction Co. II LLC for the contract. A spokesman for the winning contractors could not comment immediately.
Work on this part of the project is planned for completion by 2029.
The two -tube tunnel, 2.4 miles in length, is being built in three sections under three different contracts. The commission previously granted a contract of $ 465.6 million to Schiavone Dragados Lane JV for the end of New Jersey. The Commission plans to publish a proposal for three teams shortlisted for the center.
The work is also proceeding to other contracts for non -project tunnel portions. In New Jersey, Nejad said that the crews completed the west side of a bridge that would carry traffic on the future tunnel approach. The crews working in Hudson Yards next to New York completed the installation of the last 337 batteries seconds and are excavating an area for a tunnel coating and cover section. And in the river, workers are in the process of piercing 400 primary columns and 350 secondary columns within a cofferdam as part of the efforts to stabilize the riverbed before the tunnel bores.
The team also ordered two TBM for the project and Nejad said they are in anticipation to arrive in January and March next January and March.
New CEO
The meeting on February 3 was the first commission since its advice last month to designate Thomas Takergast as the new CEO of Gateway after the CEO of the organization, Kris Kolluri, joined NJ. Transit as President and CEO.
Takegast is the former President, President and CEO of the New York Metropolitan Transport Authority and former President of the Long Island Railway, as well as the former -Chief Executive Office of the British Columbian Transport Authority in the British Columbian South coast. He recently worked at AECOM in New York and New Jersey.
“The Manhattan tunnel project is one of the most technically complex pieces of the [Hudson Tunnel Project]”, Said taking in a statement.” Build anything underground in Manhattan requires careful planning and expert execution, as I know to supervise various subway expansion projects. I hope to work along with the Perini Frontier team -KEMPER-TUTOR, as well as GDC partners in Manhattan West Side, to complete this critical component of this life infrastructure project. “
