The New York region's crowded roster of huge transportation projects now under way all have complex plans, billion-dollar budgets and daunting construction challenges and are expected to bolster the construction industry's core infrastructure market for years to come. Most of the projects also have another thing in common—a role for Parsons Brinckerhoff.
If the region's only major projects were the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) $4.5-billion Second Avenue Subway and $2.4-billion No. 7 Subway Line Extension, that would be significant enough. But other megaprojects are also bustling along, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's $1.3-billion, 65-ft raising of the Bayonne Bridge; the New Jersey Dept. of Transportation's $1.3-billion rehabilitation of the Pulaski Skyway; and the Conn. Dept. of Transportation's $2-billion I-95 New Haven Harbor Crossing project. PB's contribution to each—along with other big jobs—is largely responsible for the 7% jump in its annual regional revenue to $172.7 million in 2013 as well as its step up a notch to third place in the design firm ranking.