GIC team members have a history of successful performance on large, complex, high-profile projects across North America, including Louisiana and Mississippi.

Kiewit and Traylor have completed and are currently teamed on more than a billion dollars of construction, including the $433 million Huey P. Long Bridge approaches in Kenner, Louisiana; the $347 million US 90 Biloxi Bay Bridge for the Mississippi DOT; and the $167 million I-10 Twin Spans high-level section for the Louisiana DOT.

Traylor Bros. projects involve some of the world’s most sophisticated engineering and construction methodologies directly focused on the construction and reconstruction of major locks and dams, bridges, cofferdams, wharfs and gates. These heavy civil projects are located on the Monongahela, Ohio, Columbia, Green and Kentucky rivers, and the Gulf Coast. Traylor Bros. has a completed many projects for the USACE, and has a solid reputation for quality work and on-time performance.

Kiewit brings the same management philosophy, the same “can do” attitude, and many of the same people to the West Closure project as it provided on the Orleans Avenue Canal Interim Closure Structure (ICS). The Kiewit team successfully performed high-quality work and zero accidents. Kiewit self-performed over 75 percent of the project with its own resources, and will use the same approach on West Closure. The work scope includes many of the same elements, such as cofferdam installation, tremie concrete placement, installation of gates and pumps, soil mixing, dredging, pile driving and underwater rock placement. Working seven days a week, 24 hours per day, to finish before the 2006 hurricane season, failure was not an option. Of three similar canal ICS projects, Kiewit was the only contractor to complete its work on time and be at full pumping capacity by the contracted deadline. The Kiewit team earned an overall rating of “Outstanding” in 30 of 31 categories. GIC intends on bringing the same proven scheduling and construction management techniques to the West Closure project.