Key Facts
- Client: Texas Turnpike Authority
- Balfour Beatty company involved: Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc
- Balfour Beatty, as a member of the Lone Star Infrastructure consortium, was awarded the $1.4 billion contract for State Highway 130 (SH 130) by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in 2002
- SH 130 represents the single largest highway project in Texas and one of the largest design-build projects in the US
- Congestion on I-35 and the surrounding area created the need to improve mobility and relieve congestion in and around the Austin-San Antonio corridor
- The work involved the design, construction and maintenance of the 49-mile long highway, which extends east of I-35 from Georgetown to US 183 in Austin
- This included building a 49-mile tollway, seven major interchanges, 124 structures and moving 39 million cubic yards of earth
- In addition, SH 130 was the first highway in the state of Texas built under an exclusive development agreement (EDA), allowing the work of property acquisition, design, and construction to be undertaken in an accelerated and simultaneous manner
