Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has appointed the team to provide聽general engineering services for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Silicon Valley Phase II Extension.
The effort to find a general engineering contractor began in May 2018 with an industry forum attended by over 350 interested parties attended. A competitive bid process followed, resulting in the final contract award to the team, which will perform design and engineering work on the five-mile tunnel, four station areas and two ventilation structures as well as system-wide work.
The work will be used initially in preparation for a federal funding request in spring 2020. The team will be tasked with getting the BART Phase II project to a 30% engineering level to inform costs and schedule estimates needed to demonstrate the adequacy of VTA鈥檚 plans to participate in a Federal Transit Administration pilot programme.
VTA鈥檚 Phase II Project is a six-mile extension of BART into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, using single-bore tunnelling methodology to minimise construction disruption. The project will include four stations - with three underground and one above along the five-mile subway tunnel.
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