BRAZORIA COUNTY, TX — ACS Group has been awarded three highway reconstruction contracts by the Texas Department of Transportation, valued at $200 million. Pulice Construction, Inc., an affiliate company of Dragados USA, with extensive experience in Texas, Arizona and California, won the contracts through a competitive bidding process.

The SH36 reconstruction work is comprised of three separate, adjoining projects, totaling 27.4 miles in the southeastern Texas counties of Brazoria and Fort Bend. All three projects will be underway concurrently, which will lower costs by reducing construction time and improving project coordination. The work includes widening and adding of lanes to the majority two-lane corridor.

Pulice will utilize its concrete paving subsidiary McNeil Brothers, which is key to the completion of the work. The improvements to the SH36 corridor include — enhanced operational efficiency and safety, added capacity to meet projected population growth, improved intermodal access with the Port of Freeport on the Gulf coast and improved mobility for evacuations during possible hurricane or adverse weather events.