LA Metro taps FlatironDragados for 2 preconstruction jobs

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Infrastructure builder FlatironDragados won two preconstruction contracts from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, in response to an Aug. 28 information launch. The corporate has estimated that the mixed price of the tasks can be $900 million, Alex Medyn, FlatironDragados vp and district supervisor, advised Building Dive by way of e-mail.

The primary job facilities on the preconstruction providers section of the Hyperlink Union Station challenge, which is able to consequence within the modernization of Los Angeles Union Station, Southern California’s busiest multimodal transit hub, in response to the information launch. The $7 million preconstruction contract helps present collaboration with LA Metro on challenge design and building planning. 

The general challenge will create “run-through tracks” on an elevated rail yard to extend the station’s capability by as much as 200%, enhance transit connectivity, accommodate Amtrak and Metrolink service and put together the hall for future high-speed rail service, in response to the information launch. The enhancements will enable trains to enter and exit from each ends of the station, which is able to scale back congestion and improve operational flexibility.

Because the Hyperlink Union Station challenge has superior, the price and timeline of the work has been in flux, according to Railway Age. An LA Metro estimate from April 2025 pinned the full price at round $1.6 billion.

Along with the Union Station work, FlatironDragados and three way partnership associate Herzog have been chosen for the preconstruction providers section of Metro’s Southeast Gateway Line Enabling challenge. The job will relocate heavy freight rail traces and conflicting utilities in preparation for the Southeast Gateway Line, a brand new mild rail transit line that may join downtown Los Angeles to southeast Los Angeles County.

The $10.5 million preconstruction contract helps early design coordination and building planning that’s at present underway. The general building price, which is anticipated to exceed $500 million, will embody utility relocations, rail set up, one new mild rail and freight bridge and a brand new Metro station on the I-105 freeway.

Medyn advised Building Dive it will likely be estimating the price of the tasks at three completely different ranges of design — 30%, 60% and 90%. After that, the corporate will negotiate with LA Metro to comply with a agency fixed-price contract.

“If we can not agree with Metro on a value, they reserve the best to off-ramp us,” Medyn stated. “Luckily, now we have monitor file of efficiently negotiating these contracts.”

Since Flatiron and Dragados merged in July 2024 to create an infrastructure behemoth on the again of excessive demand within the U.S., the agency has been busy. In July, the builder received a $1 billion contract to build the Long Bridge North project in Washington, D.C. alongside Skanska, and nabbed the $414 million Franconia-Springfield Bypass job, a Virginia Passenger Rail Authority challenge, with JV associate Herzog.