Construction will begin in spring 2017 and is estimated to be complete by 2021.

Granite Construction Incorporated announced the joint venture (JV) team comprised of Granite Construction Company, Shimmick Construction Co. Inc. and Traylor Bros. Inc. has been awarded the Airport Guideway and Stations Design-Build Contract by the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation. Granite will book its 33 percent share of the $875 million joint venture project into backlog during the third quarter of 2016.

Scope of the contract includes construction of 5.2 mi. (8.4 km) of new elevated guideway between Aloha Stadium to the Middle Street Transit Center Station in Honolulu, Hawaii. The JV team is also responsible for construction of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base transit station, two stations near the Honolulu International Airport and the Middle Street station. This is the third guideway project in a series of projects to build a 20-mi. (32 km) light rail transit system for the city and county of Honolulu.

Construction will begin in spring 2017 and is estimated to be complete by 2021.

For more information, visit http://www.honolulutransit.org/.

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