San Francisco Bridge gets $107.5 million renovation, Jacobs signs military facility contract, Skanska advances Virginia data center construction

San Francisco Bridge Receives $107.5 Million Renovation

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) announced awarding a $107.5 million contract to Certified Coatings Company for painting and repair work on the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is the largest single contract in the company's history.

The project covers full abrasive blasting and repainting of the bridge's 5.5-mile stretch, including the navigation span and 29 bridge towers. The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge is a double-deck cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 580 across San Pablo Bay, connecting Richmond and San Rafael. Opened in 1956, it is one of California's busiest and structurally most complex bridges.

Certified Coatings Company, headquartered in Fairfield, California, is a subsidiary of Germany's Muehlhan Industrial Service. The company submitted the lowest bid among five competitors, and this is its third project on the bridge.

Jacobs Awarded Military Facility Upgrade Contract

Jacobs announced a contract with the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Washington to provide architecture and engineering services for Navy and Marine Corps facilities in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

According to a Jacobs press release, the company will be responsible for planning and designing new buildings, as well as upgrading existing facilities, including improvements to infrastructure such as utilities, roads, and site systems. The contract is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity single-award task order contract, but Jacobs did not disclose the specific contract amount.

Susannah Kerr, Jacobs Executive Vice President, said: "Jacobs has extensive experience supporting the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in building safe, secure, and mission-ready military facilities. By improving how these facilities operate and their connection to critical infrastructure, this project will help bases meet current operational needs and adapt to future mission requirements."

Skanska Signs $94 Million Virginia Data Center Contract

Stockholm-based builder Skanska announced on Tuesday a $94 million contract with an existing client to build a new data center in Virginia.

The project, located within an existing campus, is a single-story, 190,000-square-foot building housing four colocation data center halls, along with electrical, mechanical, civil, telecommunications, and security systems. The design capacity is 38.4 megawatts. Skanska has previously undertaken data center projects in Virginia, securing a $242 million contract in 2024. It is unclear whether the new project is related to the previous one.

Skanska merged its data center business unit last September to strengthen its competitiveness in the sector.

Industry ImpactThese projects reflect the ongoing need for infrastructure renewal in the United States. The renovation of the San Francisco Bay Bridge not only extends the bridge's service life but also creates a significant number of jobs and drives the supply chain for painting and repair industries. The military facility upgrade projects highlight the U.S. Department of Defense's emphasis on modernizing existing bases, providing stable business sources for construction and engineering companies. In terms of data center construction, with the development of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the demand for computing power continues to grow, making data center construction an important growth point in the construction market. Skanska's contract further solidifies its market position in the data center construction field.