The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority board has approved a team of J.F. Shea Construction, Inc., Skanska USA Civil Northeast Inc., and Schiavone Construction Co., Inc. for a $1.145-billion contract to build the 1.5-mile extension of the No. 7 line subway to Manhattan’s west side.
Mysore Nagaraja, president of the MTA’s Capital Construction Co., says the sole bidder will be officially awarded the job in mid-November. The team has a 57-month construction schedule to bore a 21.5-ft-dia tunnel through mostly hard rock some 130 feet deep. Within 9 months from the start of construction, the MTA may add $450-million to the job for a station shell, adds Nagaraja. That depends on whether funding becomes available in that time.