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Brightline, Disney strike deal to build high-speed rail station near Orlando, Florida

December 1, 2020

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Contractors working to expand the rail from South Florida to north to Orlando were able to shave about a year off of a more traditional construction schedule by using a box-jack system instead of conventional methods to build a train tunnel for the new route. The system, never before used in the U.S. outside the Northeast, was suggested by Granite Construction, which has a $557 million contract for a 37-mile portion of the expansion. Granite was able to assemble the tunnel in approximately two weeks instead of a year by pushing two 3,000-pound precast pieces together and into position with special hydraulic jacks.

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