Firm Chosen for U.N. Project Preparation
By BENNY AVNI, Staff Reporter of the Sun | July 26, 2007
Skanska USA Building Inc., a Swedish-owned construction firm that has been involved in large projects in New York, was picked by the United Nations to conduct the preconstruction phase of a $1.9 billion project to refurbish the Turtle Bay building, known as the Capital Master Plan, according to several sources.
The United Nations' Undersecretary General for Management, Alicia Barcena, is expected to announce the deal with Skanska tomorrow at a U.N. press conference The company would be in a favorable position to conduct the construction, a project potentially worth at least $1 billion. For now, however, Skanska had only been hired to do the preparation phase toward the project, scheduled to be launched early next year.
