ConDig (04-Oct–18).  Developer and contractor Skanska has pocketed a $76 million contract to revamp the Manhattan Bridge in New York City.

Under the deal with the New York City Department of Transportation, the contractor will carry out significant structural and component rehabilitation on various aspects of the bridge and also make upgrades to the bridge’s safety and maintenance features, including its fire suppression system and its dehumidification and drainage infrastructure.

Construction on the project is scheduled to kick off this fall and is expected to be completed in the spring of 2021.

The bridge, which was originally built in 1909, is the most heavily traveled of the East River bridges in New York City and accommodates more than 85,000 vehicles, 4,000 bicyclists and 340,000 transit riders on an average weekday.

The latest deal marks a fruitful period for Skanska after announcing last week that it had secured a $131 million deal to manage the construction of a new campus at Collin College in Wylie, Texas.

This deal came on the heels of a $111 million contract to upgrade a 200,000-square-foot academic building in Connecticut and a $52 million deal to construct a sciences building at the WSU Pullman campus in Pullman, Washington.