Tutor Perini lands $1.2 billion contract – Inside The Valley

A joint venture led by a Sylmar-based construction company Tutor Perini Corp. has won a $1.18 billion contract to build a people mover guideway and three stations for a replacement AirTrain Newark system at Newark/Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

Tutor Perini is managing partner of the joint venture; Based in Torrington, Connecticut O&G Industries is a 25% partner. Based in Reston, Virginia Parsons Corp. is also part of the team.

The Tutor Perini/O&G Industries pairing may sound familiar: the same two companies have teamed up to build the second and third phases of the Metro D-Line Extension subway project here in Los Angeles, expected to be completed in 6.3 Billion dollars will cost 2027. (For more details on this project, see page 14.)

The current AirTrain Newark is a monorail passenger transportation system that opened in 1996 and connects the Newark/Liberty International Airport terminals with parking and rental car facilities, as well as with other train routes connecting New York City and other points in the region. It is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

But that system is nearing the end of its designed lifespan and in 2019, New Jersey’s governor… Phil Murphy decided to replace the system instead of updating it. At 2.5 miles long, the replacement project is similar in length to the automated people mover system currently under construction at Los Angeles International Airport.

In December, the port authority awarded the contract to the Austrian company Wolfurt Doppelmayr a contract worth $570 million to design and build a passenger transportation system and another $385 million over 20 years to operate and maintain the system.

The $1.18 billion Tutor Perini/O&G Industries/Parsons contract covers only the construction of the rail line and stations.