Contractors working on a $930-million bridge project for the Texas Dept. of Transportation have indicated a new willingness to address officials’ design concerns after the state agency threatened to replace them, officials say.
Valente Olivarez, Jr., TxDOT’s Corpus Christi district engineer, said state officials have received correspondence from and had direct conversations with top management from the Flatiron/Dragados joint venture building the new Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge, and spoke with executives from Dragados’ parent company, ACS Group, since the state issued a notice of default to the contractors Aug. 16. Those conversations “indicate a new direction from Flatiron/Dragados in their position and in their tone of how we are going to address these issues,” Olivarez said while addressing the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation Policy Committee on Sept. 1.