PB wins slice of BQE project.The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to Parsons Brinckerhoff Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) is a planning, engineering, program and construction management organization. The company has been involved in planning and designing some of the world's largest public works projects, such as Boston's Big Dig, Britain's rail system Network Rail; for construction engineering and inspection services for the reconstruction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway The Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) is an expressway which runs from southern Brooklyn, New York to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York. It is a portion of Interstate 278. The highway is mainly elevated in Brooklyn, with some open-cut sections. from 61st Street to Broadway in Woodside, New York. The $123.5 million project is the second phase of a program to comprehensively revitalize, rehabilitate and enhance one of the busiest highway links in metropolitan New York. PB also provided CE&I services for the first phase of the program, a $255 million project to reconstruct the highway between Broadway and 25th Avenue in Woodside which will be completed in June 2005. The current project encompasses bridge reconstruction, replacement and rehabilitation, highway realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. , retaining walls, ramps, noise walls, new drainage, resurfacing and landscaping. Construction is scheduled to be completed mid-2008. |
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