Skanska and Walsh team land $1.29bn Hudson River tunnel contract - Global Construction Review

Major tunnelling contract awarded for Hudson Tunnel Project

THE Gateway Development Commission (GDC) has awarded a joint venture of Traylor, Walsh and Skanska a $US 1.29bn contract to build the new twin-bore rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey that is GDC is delivering under the Hudson Tunnel Project. Work is expected to begin in the coming months on Package 1C covering the Hudson River Tunnel section, the major tunnelling contract for the project. Two tunnels each 2.2km in length will be constru…

Skanska and Walsh team land $1.29bn Hudson River tunnel contract - Global Construction Review

A team of US companies Traylor Bros. and Walsh Construction alongside Sweden’s Skanska has won a $1.29bn contract to build a segment of New York’s Hudson Tunnel Project. It’s the first new contract award on the roughly $16bn rail megaproject since it was paused amid a Trump administration funding freeze announced in October last year. Package 1C involves boring two new, parallel, 7,250ft-long single-track tunnels from the Hudson County Access …