Award: Highway construction
Value: $600 million
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Client: Arizona DOT
Jacobs and Sundt have teamed up on southern Arizona’s largest highway construction project, according to a news release.
The two contractors under a design-build partnership will spearhead a $600 million effort to modernize a three-mile stretch of I-10 between Kino Parkway and Country Club Road in Tucson, according to the Arizona DOT. The contract calls for three general-purpose lanes in each direction and the removal of existing interchanges to ease congestion. The Jacobs-Sundt team will also build a new I-10 westbound entrance ramp and an I-10 undercrossing to complete the project, according to the agency.
The project marks the first major initiative stemming from Arizona DOT’s I-10 and State Route 210 Transportation Design Concept Report, completed in 2020. The study outlined long-term improvements to key transportation corridors in the Tucson area. Arizona DOT programmed the I-10 work into the 2024-2028 Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program in fiscal year 2025, according to the state agency.
That means the project is fully funded and will progress unaffected by the federal government shutdown.
“The Kino to Country Club Road program is a pioneering effort and will bring best practices in alternative program delivery to Arizona,” said Galina Leiphart, Jacobs transportation market growth director, in the release. “Working with the Arizona Department of Transportation and Sundt as our design-build partner, we’ll deliver a safer, more efficient transportation system.”
Jacobs will handle final design for all the structures and provide engineering documents, according to the Dallas-based contractor. Working with Tempe, Arizona-based Sundt, the firm expects the project, now under construction, to finish in summer 2028, according to the release.
