OHL Group, through its subsidiaries Judlau Contracting, Inc. and OHL USA, has been awarded four contracts – two in New York and two in Texas – for more than 176 million euros ($195 million). In New York, OHL will carry out several civil works, awarded by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). In Texas, OHL will upgrade highways on Interstate Highway 35 (IH-35) near Dallas and IH-35 at East Oltorf Street (Austin) for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

In New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has awarded two contracts to Judlau, valued at 113 million euros ($125 million). The larger of the projects, for 58 million euros ($64 million), was awarded by the Bridges and Tunnels Division of MTA to provide design-build services for flood mitigation at the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel and Queens Midtown Tunnel. The work entails the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a comprehensive flood mitigation program to protect both tunnels’ entrances and plazas. Judlau will also construct a ventilation building on Governors Island as part of the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel. This project will mitigate potential damage from water intrusion and flooding from major weather events like Superstorm Sandy.

The second contract, for over 55 million euros ($61 million), was also awarded to Judlau by the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, a division of the MTA. It is the second phase of a design-build project to improve  critical infrastructure along Metro-North’s Hudson Line. The work includes installation of new backbone, lateral fiber optics, copper communications cable infrastructure, design and replacement of all existing signal power infrastructure and replacement of traction power continuity jumpers.

Judlau’s other projects in New York include the recently completed 63rd Street Station rehabilitation and the 72nd Street Station fit-out, part of the new Second Avenue Subway Line, the largest subway expansion in New York in a half century. Other ongoing projects include MED 609 project to install trunk water mains and the Water Siphon project, to construct an underwater tunnel between Staten Island and Brooklyn. 

In Texas, the two contracts, for more than 63 million euros ($70 million), were awarded by the Texas Department of Transportation to OHL USA. The IH-35 East Oltorf Street project includes operational improvements, construction of new shoulders and auxiliary lanes, ramp improvements and pavement rehabilitation, bike and pedestrian modernization, and frontage road intersection enhancements. The IH-35E Denton County project includes paving, grading, structures, bridges and frontage roads.

With these awards, OHL has expanded its footprint in Texas, where it is already performing important projects, including the expansion of IH-35, located near the town of Waxahachie, the comprehensive rehabilitation of 33 kilometers section along US 290 highway in Houston as well as a project to expand State Highway 121 around Dallas, TX with the construction of a four-lane bridge over the IH 35, one of the main corridors between the USA and Mexico.

The OHL Group has had a presence in the U.S. market since 2006. Currently, OHL operates in nine states – Florida, New York, New Jersey, Texas, California, Illinois, Connecticut, Virginia, and Massachusetts – and the District of Columbia.

Obrascón Huarte Lain (OHL), a concessions and construction group with more than 100 years of history, develops its activity mainly concentrated in eight home markets: USA and Canada,  Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Central Europe and Spain. At present, it is a strategic promoter of public-private projects, the 28th largest international contractor and the 5th in Latin America, and a reference in the construction of hospitals and railways.