The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority has chosen two joint ventures — every that includes Flatiron — for main tasks to remodel the railways within the state, the group introduced final week.
Lengthy Bridge
A Skanska/Flatiron JV gained the North Package deal of the Lengthy Bridge mission, which spans the Potomac River to attach Arlington, Virginia, with Washington, D.C.
Mixed with the South Package deal, the price of the mission is budgeted at $2.3 billion. A VPRA spokesperson instructed Development Dive the company has but to find out a greenback breakdown between the 2 packages.
Lengthy Bridge’s North Package deal is almost a 3rd of the way in which by the design course of. Sweden-based Skanska and Broomfield, Colorado-based Flatiron will deal with the mission with a progressive design-build supply methodology. Prep work is predicted in 2024, with full building work starting in 2025 and completion in 2030.
The present Lengthy Bridge is 119 years outdated and operates at 98% capability at peak durations, in keeping with VPRA.
The complete Lengthy Bridge Venture consists of two procurement packages to assemble an up to date, two-track railroad bridge, separating passenger and freight visitors and bettering journey instances, in keeping with the VPRA. The North Package deal consists of bridges north of the Potomac, whereas the South Package deal will embrace the bridge over the Potomac and an adjoining bicycle-pedestrian bridge.
Work gained by the Skanska/Flatiron JV will encompass a number of smaller bridges, together with a brand new rail bridge over the Washington Metro Space Transit Authority Portal and I-395, changing three two-track bridges with 4 observe bridges, and setting up a brand new pedestrian bridge.
The South Package deal stays within the procurement course of. VPRA will launch a brief record of groups in February 2024.
Franconia-Springfield Bypass
On the identical time, the VPRA introduced it awarded the $405 million Franconia-Springfield Bypass mission to a Flatiron/Herzog JV.
Underneath a construction-manager-at-risk association, the JV will assemble an almost 1-mile-long passenger rail bridge south of the Franconia-Springfield Metro station in Springfield, Virginia. Web site clearing and preparation work will start by the shut of March 2024, adopted by a two-year mission schedule.
Owned by VPRA, the span will carry passenger trains over two current freight tracks to succeed in passenger stops on the opposite aspect. The rail authority stated the mission will enhance service within the space, and improve VPRA’s mission to create two separate rail corridors for passengers and freight.