ConDig (03-Oct-18).  A subsidiary of Texas-based civil contractor Sterling Construction Co has landed a $12 million deal to upgrade the apron at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Under the construction manager at risk deal with the City of Phoenix, J. Banicki Construction will remove and replace about 34,000 square yards of 18-inch thick concrete apron in a highly active air operations area at Terminal 4.

Construction is slated to kick off this month and take about one year to complete.

“This award is for the fourth phase of the Sky Harbor Airport Terminal 4 reconstruction that we began in mid-2015. Our selection by the City of Phoenix for continued work at Sky Harbor is indicative of our extensive capabilities and competence with aviation infrastructure work, which is an important element of our strategy to increase Sterling’s overall mix of business in attractive adjacent heavy civil construction markets,” said Joe Cutillo, Sterling’s chief executive officer.

In August, Sterling subsidiary Road and Highway Builders LLC pocketed a $26 million deal to upgrade the King Kamehameha highway in Pearl City, Hawaii.

Latest figures from the Commerce Department showed that construction spending edged up 0.1% from July to August and 5.3% for the first eight months of this year compared with a year ago. This took total construction to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.32 trillion, which was down 0.4% from a record high set in May.