Granite Construction has won a $52 million construction manager at risk contract to upgrade Tucson International Airport in Arizona. The Tucson Airport Authority awarded the work, according to a Wednesday news release. The scope covers taxiway modifications and enhancements to the Federal Aviation Administration’s navigational aids.
Taxiway work and navigational aids
The contract is the last piece of the authority’s Airfield Safety Enhancement program, an initiative worth more than $400 million to modernize the airport. Granite says it has now won or completed every project in that program.
Materials will come from the contractor’s Swan Facility, a fully automated aggregate plant in Tucson. The plant will supply more than 80,000 tons of aggregate meeting FAA specifications and about 50,000 tons of asphalt meeting the same standard, according to the release.
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The last piece of a $400 million program
Preconstruction activities began in September, and the contractor expects to complete the work in 2029. The schedule puts the project several years out.
Other notable construction news includes a Fluor subsidiary securing a Navy contract worth $2.4 billion and a significant departure of construction workers, with 190,000 quitting in September, the highest number in three years.
The U.S. Coast Guard awarded a Tutor Perini subsidiary a $60 million contract to build facilities at U.S. Coast Guard Station St. Petersburg in Florida. The work spans the station’s south and north sides. On the north side, the project involves demolishing several structures damaged by Hurricane Helene in September 2024; on the south side, it calls for building five berths and upgrades to the buoy yard. Design work began in late August 2026, according to the contractor, and Perini Management Services expects substantial completion in May 2028. Los Angeles-based Tutor Perini will include the contract value in its 2026 third quarter backlog, according to the release.
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SMACNA installed its 2026-2027 president and executive committee during its annual convention in Orlando, Florida, according to a release shared with Construction Dive Wednesday. Scott Vidimos of industrial sheet metal shop Vidimos, Inc., based in East Chicago, Indiana, took the reins as president. The executive committee includes Joe Samia, CEO and president of Wichita, Kansas-based Central Consolidated, as president-elect; Gary Myers, vice president of marketing and business development at Roseville, California-based Intech Mechanical, as secretary-treasurer; Roy Jensen, president of operations at Colorado Springs, Colorado-based MechOne, as vice president; and Todd Hill, president of Troy, Michigan-based Ventcon, as immediate-past president.
DPR Construction picked company veteran Scott Sass to lead operations in its Raleigh-Durham business unit, the builder announced Tuesday. Sass, who has spent 27 years at DPR, has experience leading complex projects and business operations, per the announcement, and brings experience in the life sciences sector, one of DPR’s strongest markets in the region. He previously was a national leader of the contractor’s Special Services Group, which provides specialty contractor services such as renovations, according to his LinkedIn. The Raleigh-Durham area, part of the Research Triangle, features one of the fastest rates of rising construction employment in the country, per the announcement.
