
Hawaii GCs include Healy Tibbitts Builders Inc., Hawaiian Dredging, Hensel Phelps, Nan Inc., Kiewit Infrastructure West and others.
Approximately $3 billion in four separate MACCs (multiple award construction contracts), awarded for work in Hawaii, Washington state and the Pacific to local GCs, often operating in tandem or separately as joint ventures. and Kiewit, all operating as members of three separate joint ventures (JV). Local GCs include Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co. $8.5 billion from NAVFAC Pacific awarded in late 2021 for work in Hawaii and Washington state to five Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) contractors. The project dovetails with enormous contracts recently awarded by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) to local and offshore general contractors.
“It will be huge,” says Steve Baginski, incoming 2023 president of the General Contractors Association of Hawaii.
Department of Defense appropriations have been authorized. The Navy’s Dry Dock 3 Replacement project at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, valued at approximately $2 billion to $4 billion, is slated to start in three or four months now that current U.S.