McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has been awarded a $30.9M contract to upgrade the Barbours Cut Terminal container yards 4 and 5 for the Port Houston Authority (PHA). The project is part of a modernization program to increase cargo handling efficiency. McCarthy will complete rehabilitation of the existing sites in an accelerated 13-month schedule. Container Yard 4 broke ground in Oct. 2023 and it will be followed by Container Yard 5.
The project scope involves removing old underground utilities and installing new utilities including laying a total of 695 feet of reinforced concrete pipe, laying 3,300 linear feet of nearly four-foot trench drains, reworking roadways into the site, and putting in three and half feet of base before laying joint enforced pavement. McCarthy is self-performing the concreate paving. The combined sites total 82,720 square yards (or 630,000 square feet).
