Sylmar-based civil construction contractor Tutor Perini Corp. has been awarded a $1.66 billion contract to construct a rail line segment through downtown Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
Tutor Perini was the only bidder on the project, according to local media reports. The award is from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, or HART.
The company said the contract value will be added to its project backlog for the third quarter.The project is the final 3-mile segment of an elevated rail line through Honolulu; the segment is known as the City Center Guideway and Stations. The overall Honolulu rail project is nearly 19 miles long and consists of 19 stations. The first segment – 10 miles with nine stations – opened last year, while the second segment is currently in the final stages of construction and is expected to open next year.
Besides the 3 miles of rail line, the contract calls for the Tutor Perini-led team to construct six stations, including one at the city’s civic center.
According to the Aug. 15 announcement from Tutor Perini, while the contract award was announced that day, a final contract is not expected to be executed until next month. Project design is expected to begin immediately after that point; that work will be led by Chantilly, Virginia-based Parsons Corp., which is the design subcontractor on Tutor Perini’s team.
Construction of the elevated guideway line is expected to begin in the second half of next year, with a target completion date of 2030.
“We are proud and honored to be a part of this transformational project in Honolulu,” Tutor Perini Chief Executive Ronald Tutor said in the announcement. “Tutor Perini has a long and successful history of building large, complex light rail projects in various cities in the United States, and we look forward to partnering with HART to see this project successfully delivered.”
This project announcement comes just weeks after a team led by Tutor Perini was named “best value proposer” for the 1.6-mile, $2 billion automated people mover rail project linking downtown Inglewood with the sports and entertainment venues surrounding SoFi Stadium. That contract is expected to be awarded later this year.
