Gateway Development Commission has pre -selected three teams to build the central part of his $ 16 billion Hudson Tunnel project, adding a new passenger railway link between Northern New Jersey and New York City.
The scope of the contract package covers a pair of tunnels 7,250 feet in length of a construction axis in Hoboken, NJ, to one in Manhattan using tunnel boring machines. The selected contractor would also be responsible for covering tunnels with prefabricated concrete segments to have a 25-feet, 2-in. Inner diameter, building new cross passages and other related works. The crown of the tunnel plans to be mostly 25 to 50 feet below the river.
Preselived teams include Gateway Tunnel Contractors, a joint Halmar International LLC and FCC Construction Inc.; Hudson Tunnel Builders, a Dragados Association USA Inc., Schiavone Construction Co. LLC and LANE CONSTRUCTION CORP.; I TRYLOR/WALSH/SKANSKA JV, a team of Treylor Bros. Inc., Walst Construction Co. II LLC and Skanska USA Civil Northeast Inc., according to a notice of the commission.
Officials are planning to issue a request for proposals for a design design contractor to the three shortlisted teams. The leaders of the catwalk have said that they aim to select the contractor next year.
The commission, jointly created by New York and New Jersey to manage passenger railway projects along a section of the northern corridor railway line -East, plans to build the tunnel through several contractual packages. Last year he selected a team from Schiavone, Dragados and Lane for a contract of $ 465.6 million for the end of New Jersey of the tunnel and on February 3 he selected Frontier-Kemper-Tutor Perini JV for a contract D ‘$ 1.2 million to build the New York side.
Other contracts are already underway that cover related infrastructure on both sides of the river, as well as the stabilization of a section of the riverbed needed before tunnel.
Future contractual packages that must still be awarded include tunnel adjustment and rehabilitation of the existing tunnel of the north of the river, which officials say that it has been defeated due to its existence of more than a century and flood damage to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The northeastern runner serves amtrak trains between the trains between Boston and Washington, DC, and this section also serves NJ transportation trains. The gateway leaders say that the new tunnel is needed to ensure the reliability of the service.
The new tunnel is expected to enter in service by 2035 and the full project, including the rehabilitation of the northern tunnel of the river, is scheduled for completion in 2038.
