General engineering consultant named in Maryland

Maryland Transit Authority (MTA) has selected a joint venture of Parsons Brinckerhoff and RK&K in association with AECOM, as an on-call general engineering consultant for statewide transportation projects.

Under this contract the joint venture will provide project management, project controls, environmental, structural, tunnelling, rolling stock and train signal engineering services during the preliminary and final design phase of any open-ended transportation project throughout the state.

PB/RK&K’s principal assignment is designing the proposed Red Line, a 14-mile (22.5km) light rail system that would extend from Woodlawn in Baltimore County into Baltimore City, through downtown Baltimore and terminate at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Campus. This alignment includes 15 surface stations, five underground stations, one mile of aerial structure and approximately 4 (6.3km) miles of dual-track tunnel.

Final design is expected to be completed by 2016.