The Fluor-led LLC, Connect 202 Partners, is a design-build and maintenance partnership comprised of Fluor Enterprises Inc., Granite Construction Co., Ames Construction Inc., Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. as the lead designer, and Fluor and DBi Services, LLC, providing the long-term maintenance. ADOT will fund the project's capital costs with a combination of available public funds from sales tax revenues and tax-exempt bonds. Fluor booked the project in the first quarter of 2016.
Freeway construction began September 2016 with crews widening the shoulders and extending the existing Loop 202 high-occupancy vehicle lanes from Pecos Road near 48th Street to the I-10/Loop 202 interchange. This initial phase was completed prior to mainline freeway construction, which began in early 2017.
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Over 1,400 construction workers will be on site at peak, approximately 500 of which are self-perform LLC employees. The team has conducted extensive safety training for all project employees, with over 320,000 hours without a recordable incident completed to date. Fluor offices in Aliso Viejo, CA; Dallas, TX; and Greenville, SC; are supporting the project.
The LLC will be self-performing earthwork, drainage, bridge construction, and asphalt paving, and managing the other aspects of the project including noise walls, overhead signage and intelligent transportation system infrastructure for this project.
Fluor will be managing over 120 subcontractors, including small, local and disadvantaged business enterprises supporting the project through design and engineering support, traffic control, security, hauling services, demolition, clearing operations, landscaping and other scopes of work as outlined by the contract with ADOT. A series of public outreach meetings have been held along the corridor to obtain feedback and garner public support for the project. The project has also allowed for extensive first responder and military training in abandoned commercial and residential buildings purchased by ADOT that will be demolished by the Fluor-led joint venture.
In November 2018, Connect 202 Partners was named as part of the esteemed Arizona Million Dollar Circle of Excellence (MDCE). The Arizona MDCE recognizes businesses that lead the way in supplier diversity in the state of Arizona by spending more than $1 million annually with women and minority business enterprises.
Fluor-DBi's maintenance personnel have been actively involved with the design and construction teams to optimize the design while reducing the long-term maintenance costs on the project. Fluor and DBi Services, LLC, will maintain the lanes for 30 years with oversight from ADOT.