A joint venture of Dragados USA Inc. and Schiavone Construction Co. LLC has won a nearly $800-million design-build job for an underwater expansion to Virginia’s 50-year-old Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Construction of the 5,700-ft-long parallel tunnel is slated to begin next fall, at the Thimble Shoals Channel.
On July 28, the joint venture was awarded the $756 million contract by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District (CBBTD). The selection followed a project re-scoping implemented this past May, after the three short-listed teams’ bids were several hundred thousand dollars above the original estimate.