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9/17/2024
The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) and Dr. William W. Hay Award for Excellence Review Committee yesterday named a major MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) project the winner of the 2024 William W. Hay Award.
AREMA created the award in 1999 to honor rail infrastructure projects that best address safety, innovation and service performance reliability. The annual award is named after the late William Walter Hay, a longtime AREMA contributor and professor of railway civil engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
At AREMA’s annual conference in Louisville yesterday, Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Arup-Jacobs Engineering Joint Venture officials accepted the award for the LIRR Main Line Expansion Project. The $2.5 billion, three-year project involved the construction of 9.8 miles of track; elimination of eight grade crossings; replacement of seven bridges; upgrade of six stations; and the rebuild of various infrastructure, including a signal system.
Completed on time and under budget, the project has set a standard for MTA design/build projects going forward, joint venture officials said during the award ceremony. The work involved box jacking, a first-of-its-kind technique, they said.
AREMA officials and Hay award committee members chose the LIRR project from among five submissions this year. The LIRR project is the 26th winner of a Hay award since 1999.