Flatiron to Design and Build New Calgary Ring Road as Part of Public-Private Partnership (P3) Team.LONGMONT, Colo. -- Flatiron Constructors secured a CAN$408-million contract to design and construct the northeast portion of the new Calgary Ring Road around Alberta's largest city. The Alberta government chose Bilfinger Berger Bilfinger Berger (FWB: GBFG) is a large, internationally active construction company based in Mannheim, Germany. See also
BOT to develop the project, and Bilfinger has selected Stoney ston·ey adj. Variant of stony. Trail Constructors, a joint venture led by Flatiron Constructors with Parsons and Graham Construction and Engineering, to design and build a new 21-kilometer (13-mile) portion of the ring road. This is the second portion of the ring road to be developed. Under Alberta's public-private partnership Public-private partnership (PPP) describes a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. These schemes are sometimes referred to as PPP or P3. for highways process, "a private-sector partner is responsible for the design, construction, financing, and operation of a roadway for 30 years [and] Government is guaranteed a fixed price and delivery date for the road."1 The first portion of the ring road, a 15-kilometer (9-mile) stretch in northwest Calgary, was developed using a traditional design-bid-build process and will be complete in the fall of 2008. Flatiron will be responsible for constructing the northeast portion of the ring road, which will extend from Deerfoot Trail Deerfoot Trail is a freeway section of Highway 2 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Formerly known as Blackfoot Trail Freeway, it is known for its high rate of collisions and excessive speeding. south to 17 Avenue SE. The project includes 23 bridge structures and six interchanges, including one major interchange at Deerfoot Trail and one at the Trans-Canada Highway Trans-Canada Highway, c.4,800 mi (7,700 km) long, S Canada; dedicated 1962; completed 1970. The world's longest national highway, it traverses North America from St. John's, N.L., to Victoria, British Columbia. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Alberta government, Deerfoot Trail is the heaviest traveled road in the entire Province of Alberta. Flatiron is currently involved with an award-winning P3 project in the province of British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography in northwestern Canada constructing a new portion of the Trans-Canada Highway 1 through Kicking Horse Canyon. "The Kicking Horse highway has been an excellent project, and we're looking forward to bringing the same success to projects like the Calgary Ring Road and others throughout western Canada," says Flatiron Project Manager Matt Girard. The northeast portion of the Calgary Ring Road is slated for completion in Fall 2009. Flatiron Constructors is a subsidiary of Flatiron Construction Corp., a Royal BAM Bam (bäm), town (1996 pop. 70,100), Kerman prov., SE Iran, on the intermittent Bam River. Located on the western edge of the Dasht-e Lut, Bam is a trade center in a henna-growing region. Dates and other fruits are also grown; camels are raised. Group company. Flatiron specializes in transportation and heavy civil projects both on a national scale and in local districts. Its experience encompasses major highways, traditional and specialty bridges, toll roads, tunnels, and rail transit projects throughout the United States. Flatiron is consistently ranked among the top bridge and highway builders in North America. 1 The City of Calgary. "Backgrounder." 24 Feb. 2006. http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/mayor/background_and_faqs.pdf (25 January 2007). |
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