Transportation

Transportation

MEC has a 55-year tradition of outstanding performance on some of the nation’s most high-profile transportation projects. To date we have completed over $3 billion of transportation projects nationwide. With our skilled and dedicated personnel, combined with cutting edge installation methods and project controls, MEC is setting new standards across every aspect of the market.

Delaware River Bridge Security System

Pennsylvania & New Jersey

Mass. Electric Construction Co. (MEC) was the prime contractor for the installation of a security system on eighteen bridges over the Delaware River. The scope of work included the installation of 300 CCTV cameras covering a span of 140 miles and included seven facilities.

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Leonard P. Zakim / Bunker Hill Bridge

Boston, Mass.

As the signature of Boston’s Big Dig project, the Leonard P. Zakim/Bunker Hill Bridge (Zakim Bridge), completed in 2002 and fully opened in 2004 is not only the world’s widest asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge, but it is also the first asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge in the nation. The bridge, which spans from Boston’s North End to Charlestown, MA, consists of ten lanes, and merges I-93 and U.S. Route 1 traffic across the Charles River, into and out of the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Tunnel.

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Central Artery/Tunnel Security Project

Boston, Mass.

In light of the threat presented by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority had to come up with a way to monitor its new $15 Billion underground highway. Mass. Electric Construction Co. (MEC) was selected to be the installer for the security system, which would allow the new Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) system to be monitored from one central location.

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