ConDig (18-Jul-17).  The Grand Parkway Infrastructure joint venture has landed a $855 million design-build contract for a section of the Grand Parkway highway project in Houston, Texas.

The joint venture, which consists of Austin-based Ferrovial Agroman US Corp, Houston-based Webber LLC and California-based Granite Construction Inc, will design and build the H I-1 and I-2 portions of the highway.

This will involve construction of 37.5 miles of a tolled two-lane controlled access facility with intermittent four lane sections, new toll lanes and tolling equipment, according to Granite.

There are also 74 new bridges along the length of the project and more than 10 million yards of earthwork to be moved.

Work on the scheme is slated to start this month and The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is targeting a completion date of spring 2022.

Grand Parkway’s H and I segments run from Interstate 69/US 59 northeast of Houston to Baytown east of Houston.

Overall, the Grand Parkway project features the construction of 52.5 miles of highway through Chambers, Harris, Liberty and Montgomery counties.

Last year, TxDOT opened sections of the Grand Parkway scheme, which is an all-electronic toll road, that run from US 290 in northwest Houston to I-69/US 59 in northeast Houston.