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2020/2021 Top 100 North American Strategic Infrastructure Projects 202.776.0990 [email protected] 2020/2021 Top 100 North CG/LAmericanA Strategic INFRASTRUCTUREInfrastructure Projects CG/LA INFRASTRUCTURE CG/LA 1 CG-LA.com | GVIP.io @ CG-LA.com CG-LA.com | GVIP.ioINFRASTRUCTURE@ CG-LA.com The 2020/21 Strategic 100 Projects list for North America This is our 12th annual Strategic 100 North America ranking, and we are in the process of making big changes. All projects are resident, with profiles, in our GViP platform. Rankings are created using CG/LA’s proprietary algorithm. We started with the 500 projects in our Stimulus Map, added to those projects through recommendations from our surveys, and suggestions from Advisory Board members, and then let the $27 Trillion algorithms rip. In Pension Fund Assets This year we’ve created three lists, and this is just the beginning. Let me start by explaining where we are. We are in the midst of three transitions. First, Covid-19 has devastated state and local budgets - awards are not being investment to drive infrastructure project signed, and projects are being cancelled. This creation. Luckily two macrotrends are will reverberate through 2024. And it means - driving events in our favor: the vast majority at least to me - that smaller projects with large of technology-driven projects are private impacts might be more valuable than large investment projects, so no adjustment projects. required; and on the other side of the debt Second, this is a period of dramatic teeter totter is $27 trillion in pension fund technology change. That means that the assets, under-performing - and perfect for performance of projects, their potential long-term, steady returns, investment. performance - brownfield, greenfield, new infrastructure - can be dramatically enhanced, throughout their lifecycle. And because this technology is throwing off data - projects all of a sudden become revenue generators. CG/LA Third, we have $27 trillion in debt, that’s INFRASTRUCTURE trillion with a ‘T’, and so we are inevitably CG-LA.com going to have to rely on increased private Register Now for the The North America Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum 1 day, 50+ infra- structure projects, and access to 300 infrastructure executives your computer! 202.776.0990 [email protected] Ranking Algorithms - The Top 100 Much or our thinking is based on the following want to focus on urban transit, and addressing especially for this election year; and our thought experiment: you are the governor of a what is both a bleeding liability and an area “Moneyball” list, in which we adjusted the state, or the head of infrastructure in the U.S., of potential opportunity; or you may realize algorithm to highlight the advantages of Mexico or Canada, “what is the best way to many rural projects deliver more bang for the smaller projects - including the fact that they deploy your resources to drive infrastructure buck than rural projects. How do you do that? are more likely to happen, go forward more investment?” This year especially you may quickly and - arguably - produce perhaps We’ve created thee top 100 lists - actually, want to focus on immediate job creation, great, and perhaps a wider array, of benefits. two lists, and a variation: The Top 100 rather than long-term results; or you might North America list, and the Top 100 U.S. list, Moneyball & Infrastructure CG/LA is creating a Big Data and AI unit, learning capabilities, we will be increasingly forward to working with you on making good leveraging the power of our GViP platform able to answer your critical questions on decisions about projects, timing, results, (3310 projects, and counting) to help infrastructure - including where to focus, how benefits, performance and the kind of infrastructure decision-makers, from owners to invest, and how to enhance performance. future we want to build for our children and to providers, make better decisions about We are just at the beginning of this process, grandchildren! projects. As we add data sets, and machine ‘lighting a candle in the darkness,’ and look “What is the best way 321.93 to deploy your resources to drive infrastructure investment?” Visit GVIP.io CG/LA INFRASTRUCTURE CG/LA 3 CG-LA.com | GVIP.io @ CG-LA.com INFRASTRUCTURE 202.776.0990 [email protected] Top 100 US Projects These are the top 100 strategic infrastructure GViP. This platform allows more in-depth insight into the data behind the world’s projects in North America for 2020.This ranking most consequential infrastructure projects, and the impact they will have on system is based on data CG/LA has aggregated in global economic recovery. its Global Infrastructure Visualization Platform (GViP), which includes quantitative metrics on This list of projects represents more than $320B in economic impact, and sheds jobs created, sector, project page view, project light onto what is of strategic importance to the U.S. economy. profile completion index, location, value, and project likes. This list is intended to be a source of practical intelligence on projects coming to market across all sectors in the U.S., helping to distinguish undeveloped concepts and improb- able projects from certain opportunities that represent long-term strategic value. Though CG/LA has been producing the Strategic Top 100 List for 12 years, this year’s ranking comes from the advanced data analytic algo- rithms and mathematical rankings that power Visit GVIP.io To learn More. Project Name Value (M) State Sector Subsector 1 Soo Locks Modernization Project 922 Michigan Transport Ports & Logis- tics 2 New York - New Jersey OceanGrid 3000 New Energy Transmission Jersey 3 Gateway Program: Hudson River Tunnel Project 11300 New York Transport Tunnels 4 Sierra Madre and Chokecherry Wind Project 5000 Wyoming Energy Genera- tion,Renew- ables 5 Massachusetts OceanGrid 3000 Massachu- Energy Transmission setts 6 Texas Central Railway 20000 Texas Transport Transit 7 JFK Airport New Terminal One 7400 New York Transport Airports & Logistics 8 Gateway Program 30000 New Transport Transit Jersey 9 NatGas Export Facility/Gulfport Dredging 20000 Missis- Energy Generation, sippi Natural Gas 10 Coos Bay, Oregon Channel Modification 375 Oregon Transport Ports & Logis- tics CG/LA 4 CG-LA.com | GVIP.io @ CG-LA.com INFRASTRUCTURE 202.776.0990 [email protected] Project Name Value (M) State Sector Subsector 11 Gateway Program: Portal North Bridge Project 1600 New Transport Transit Jersey 12 Controlled Thermal Resources Lithium and Geothermal Project, Salton Sea 1040 California Energy Generation‚ Renewables 13 MVP Southgate 5400 Virginia Oil & Gas Pipelines‚ Gas 14 Northeast Maglev Project Phase 1 12000 DC Transport Transit 15 Jordan Cove LNG Export Project 10000 Oregon Oil & Gas Generation, Natural Gas 16 Pittsburgh International Airport modernization 1100 Pennsyl- Transport Airports & vania Logistics 17 Banks Lake Pumped Storage Project 1400 Washing- Energy Generation ‚ ton Hydro 18 Texas Connected Freight Corridors 5000 Texas Transport Freight Rail 19 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion 3900 Virginia Transport Tunnels 20 Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvements 327 Texas Transport Transit 21 Empire State Connector 1500 New York Energy Transmission 22 Yellow Pine Solar Project 1000 Nevada Energy Generation‚ Renewables 23 Crimson Solar 550 California Energy Generation‚ Renewables 24 Copper Mountain Solar 5 500 Nevada Energy Generation‚ Renewables 25 Port of Alaska Modernization Project 1900 Alaska Transport Ports & Logis- tics 26 Jayhawk Wind Project 250 Kansas Energy Generation‚ Renewables 27 New England Clean Energy Connect 1000 Maine Energy Transmission 28 Maryland I-495 Capital Beltway & I-270 P3 Program 11000 Maryland Transport Urban High- ways 29 Grain Belt Express Clean Line 2300 Missouri Energy Transmission 30 Offutt Air Force Base Runway Reconstruction 176 Nebraska Transport Airports & Logistics 31 South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements 300 California Water Waste Water 32 Skipjack Wind Farm 720 Maryland Energy Generation‚ Renewables 33 Brazos Island Harbor Improvement Project 350 Texas Transport Transit 34 Theia WV TSN Analytics Processing Center (APC) (669 Jobs by November 2020) 1124 West Informa- Other Virginia tion & Commu- nication Technolo- gies 35 The Oceti Sakowin Power Project 850 South Energy Generation‚ Dakota Renewables 36 Project Clean Lake: Shoreline Storage Tunnel Project 218 Ohio Water Waste Water 37 Arkansas Valley Conduit 600 Arkansas Water Water Supply 38 Upper Ohio Navigation Project 2300 Pennsyl- Transport Ports & Logis- vania tics 39 Gordon Butte Pumped Storage Hydro project 1000 Montana Energy Generation ‚ Hydro 40 Great Lakes Basin Transportation Railroad 4000 Illinois Transport Transit 41 Caddo Wind Farm 636 Oklahoma Energy Generation‚ Renewables CG/LA 5 CG-LA.com | GVIP.io @ CG-LA.com INFRASTRUCTURE 202.776.0990 [email protected] Project Name Value (M) State Sector Subsector 42 I-70 West Vail Pass 725 Colorado Transport Highways 43 Lake Charles LNG Export Facility 12300 Louisiana Oil & Gas Generation, Natural Gas 44 Kitty Hawk Wind Farm 4600 North Energy Generation‚ Carolina Renewables 45 Virginia Railway Express/Amtrak Expansion Plan 3700 Virginia Transport Transit 46 Alaska LNG Project 43000 Alaska Oil & Gas Generation, Natural Gas 47 Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion 1400 Louisiana Other Water Supply 48 Project Clear: Lower Mermac Tunnel 212 Missouri Water Waste Water 49 Hoover Dam Wind and Solar Battery 3000 Arizona Energy Generation‚ Renewables 50 UPenn 220MW Solar Farm 250 Pennsyl- Energy Generation‚ vania Renewables 51 Vermont Green
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