March 2004

(Central Texas) – Zachry has been awarded a $37.6 million contract to construct a two-mile stretch of State Highway 45 North, bringing the company’s number of Central Texas Turnpike Project (CTTP) awards to four – more than the number of awards to all other CTTP contractors combined.

Of the seven CTTP contracts awarded to-date by the Texas Department of Transportation Texas Turnpike Authority (TTA), Zachry / Gilbert Constructors (ZGC), a joint venture between ZCC and Gilbert Texas Construction, L.P., has received two. ZCC has received two others. The three other awards have gone to three separate organizations.

ZGC first won the T-interchange between SH 45 North and the Loop 1 extension in late 2002, and picked up the Loop 1 extension project several months later. Zachry then went on to earn work on U.S. Highway 183 north of SH 45 North a few months before winning its latest contract for SH 45 North. SH 45 North, the Loop 1 extension, SH 130 and U.S. 183 A will eventually be the four connected toll elements comprising the 122-mile CTTP. The project is the biggest and most expensive toll roadwork ever undertaken in Texas, TTA’s Austin office director Tim Weight told the Austin American-Statesman.

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