The Liberators ...And Their Spoils
THE LIBERATORS ...
Arcadis G&M – U.S. arm of Netherlands Dragados – Spanish construction company. Obayashi – Japanese construction and company that performs risk assessments, Ferrovial Agroman – Unit of Grupo Ferrovial, engineering firm. financial management. which is parent company of Cintra. OHL Concesiones – Manages toll roads and Babcock & Brown – Australian company that Fluor – U.S. multinational and longtime concessions in Mexico. manages infrastructure assets. government contractor. Skanska – Multinational based in Sweden that Balfour Beatty – U.K. company specializing in Gilbert Texas Construction – Fort Worth-based builds roads, ports, hospitals. rail, roads and infrastructure. affiliate of Kiewit. T.J. Lambrecht Co. – Earthmoving contractor Chiang, Patel & Yerby, Inc. – Engineering Granite – California company that makes based in Joliet, Ill. consultants with corporate offices in Dallas. construction materials and oversees large Transurban – Australian toll road developer and Cintra – Toll-road developer and operator based projects. investor. in Madrid, Spain. J.D. Abrams – Austin-based construction Williams Brothers Construction – Houston DBAH Capital – Affiliate of Deutsche Bank. company specializing in large public works construction firm. projects. Dexia – Top player in retail banking in Belgium Zachry – A home-grown construction company and Luxembourg. Kiewit – U.S. company specializing in headquartered in San Antonio that often infrastructure, transportation, and mining. DMJM + Harris – Flagship transportation partners with other companies. company in AECOM, a global firm. Macquarie – Australian investment bank.
... AND THEIR SPOILS FRISCO The teams vying to build Texas highways and operate the new generation 121 of toll roads are typically made up of 20 or 30 partners including THE COLONY developers, engineers, designers, investment bankers, construction PLANO 75 companies, and suppliers. Often these individual partners have layers of LEWISVILLE DNT subsidiaries, are active in numerous countries, and operate under various names. This map highlights some of the companies who are competing for PGBT or have won contracts. The information is drawn from Texas Department of DALLAS Transportation records. (Boldfaced names are the partnerships which these individual players have joined for specific projects.) SH 121 Skanska BOT (Skanska, Granite, Chiang, Patel & Yerby, Inc). Macquarie Infrastructure Group (Macquarie, Gilbert/Abrams, Kiewit, DMJM + Harris) 183 GEORGETOWN
161 IRVING 183 GARLAND 360 DALLAS GRAND PRAIRIE 635 30 130 75 DALLAS AUSTIN
ARLINGTON 35E 30 180 IRVING SH 161 Interstate 635 71 Babcock & Brown, Transurban &Fluor Dragados-Zachry Partnership (Dragados, Zachry, DMJM + Harris) 35 Mid-Cities Transportation Partners (Macquarie, Kiewit, Granite) Macquarie 635 Partnership (Macquarie, Kiewit, Granite, J.D. Abrams, Gilbert Texas Construction) BUDA OHL Infrastructure (OHL Concesiones, Dexia, TranSystems) Cintra (Cintra, Ferrovial Agroman, Obayashi) Skanska (Skanska, DBAH Capital, Arcadis G&M) Dallas Mobility Link (Fluor, Skanska, Transurban)
SH 130 (Segments 1-4) Lone Star Infrastructure (Fluor, Balfour Beatty, T. J. Lambrecht) 35 SH 130 (Segments 5,6) Cintra-Zachry 1604 410
DOWNTOWN 10 SAN ANTONIO
U.S. 281/Loop 1604 Macquarie 1604 Partnership (Macquarie, Kiewit, J.D. Abrams, Gilbert Texas) TTC-35 Zachry-Cintra Partnership (Zachry, Ferrovial Agroman, Cintra-Zachry DMJM+ Harris)
TTC-69 Bluebonnet Infrastructure Investors (Cintra, Ferrovial Agroman) Taken from “The Highwaymen,” by Eileen Welsome. ZAI ACS TTC-69 Team (Zachry, Dragados, Williams Brothers) The Texas Observer, Dec. 15, 2006.