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Pittsburg Berry Street Rebuild

Sunday, June 1, 1997

The Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, is very pleased with its Berry Street Tunnel reconstruction results. The authority benefited from the contractors original low bid and its post-bid tunnel-design change. The original bid was almost US$ 3 million lower than the nearest competitor, a fair proportion for a project costing under US$ 40 million.However, that was only the start of the savings to come. The contractor, Mosites Construction Company of Pittsburgh, PA proposed a tunnel-design change to the authority immediately after being awarded the contract. This was contingent on the valued engineered idea, whereby owner and contractor share any project cost reduction.

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