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GE Awards First Project Contracts

Friday, January 26, 2007

In January 2007, GE awarded the first two construction contracts for development of the Fort Edward treatment and transportation center.

The contracts were awarded to:

• The D.A. Collins Construction Company, Inc., of Mechanicville, which was selected to perform civil construction work, including building three miles of access and internal roads, bridges, culverts, a stormwater drainage system, and other projects on the 110-acre site bordering the Champlain Canal in Fort Edward. The contract also calls for D.A. Collins to widen the Champlain Canal and build a wharf for barges that will transport sediment to the site. It will also prepare a site on the west side of the Hudson River in Moreau where a marine staging facility for project-related boats will be established.
  
  
• RailWorks Track Services, Inc., a subsidiary of RailWorks Corp. of New York City, which was selected to construct a rail yard, five miles of track and related facilities on the site for the staging and loading of rail cars that will transport the sediment from Fort Edward to a disposal facility outside of New York State. The contract includes building repair and inspection tracks, a 2,400-square-foot rail support service building, a repair track facility, and a weigh-in-motion scale.

D.A. Collins is a full-service construction firm with more than 600 employees in the Capital Region. RailWorks Corp. is the leading provider of track and transit system construction services in North America. The company employs 1,300 people nationwide.