Skanska Awarded $33M Contract

HARRISONBURG, VA-Skanska USA was recently awarded a $33 million contract from James Madison University for renovation and construction services at Duke Hall. The building houses its School of Art and Art History programs. This contract follows others in the area that Skanska has snagged, including the $91 million, 11th Street Bridge Project in the District and a $66-million contract for a test track, commissioning facility, parking garage and other facilities near the existing Metro Maintenance Yard in Greenbelt, Md.

The Duke Hall project will be a 65,000-square-foot renovation and 51,500-square-foot, three-story addition. The renovation will include replacing the building’s main engineering, electrical, telecommunications, plumbing and mechanical systems, installing new elevators to meet current building code requirements, and modifying visual art studios and labs to meet updated life safety codes. Skanska will be working with Nielsen Builders on the project, which is seeking LEED Silver certification and is slated for completion in November 2013.

In the District, Skanska USA Civil Southeast has been awarded a $90.7-million contract from DC’s Department of Transportation to expand the scope of the ongoing 11th Street Bridge Project. The project is adding new traffic movement on the north side of the bridge and changing the SE/SW freeway to be an at-grade crossing. Skanska’s share of the contract is 70%, or $63.5 million. In Greenbelt, the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority project calls for a two-mile test track and commissioning facility for Metro to test the 648 new rail cars it is purchasing.