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The United States Army Engineers has granted Omaha, Nebraska, Kiewit to $ 404 million contract to build the next portion From Port Arthur, Texas, flood protection project, according to a statement from USACE.
The project aims to reduce the risk and increase the flood resistance provided by the Hurricane protection system of Port Arthur. The scope includes the replacement of 9,525 feet of flood wall, 2,300 feet of Levee rise, four links of the wall of coverage and front protection to three pump stations.
Kiewit’s award comes through the PAV04 contract, a design construction contract that serves as a seed project for the construction of $ 7 billion in building the construction of the USACE’s ordering orders to deliver large -scale civil works infrastructure projects along the Texas coast. It is part of the greatest Sabine PAS in the risk management project of the coastal storm of Galveston Bay, known as SG2.
The construction of Pav04 is expected to begin in summer 2026 and it will take about three and a half years to complete. The completion of the largest Arthur Port project is currently scheduled for 2033.
The original Hurricane protection system of Port Arthur was built between 1966 and 1983 and was designed to protect the area from hurricane storms to 14 feet above the middle of the sea. Improvements will provide greater resilience to The port of deep water of Port Arthur and the oil processing centerAccording to USACE.
“This award, which represents the largest construction contract to the date of the S2G project, is an important step in the long -term effort to improve the protection against floods for the Port Arthur area,” said the executive director of the Gulf Costa Protection District, Coalter Baker, in the statement.
PAV04 is the third of ten projects proposed to improve storm protection in the region. In December, FlatIRON builders broke The PAV03A contract of $ 102.5 millionAccording to the Distribution of Visual Defense Information.
