Four Contractors Vie For Silver Line Rail Yard Complex

Northern Virginia:

“The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority announced today that four construction teams have been approved to bid on the design and construction of the Silver Line rail yard and maintenance facility at Dulles Airport. The teams were selected following based on responses to a request for qualifications. The contractors are:

• Capital Rail Constructors—Clark Construction Group. LL and Kiewit Infrastructure South Co.;
• Hensel Phelps Construction Co.;
• Metrorail Constructors Group JV—Turner Construction Co., Southland Industries, and Freestate Electrical Construction Co.; and
• Skanska USA Southeast Co.

Capital Rail Constructors is the contractor team building Package A of the Silver Line’s Phase 2 extension from Reston to Ashburn. That contract includes construction of the rail line, stations and systems.

The award of the Package B contract, which is expected to cost between $260 million and $280 million, is anticipated in July with completion of the project anticipated in 2018.”

~Writes Leesburg Today

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