SAN DIEGO, CA — The North Coast Corridor Segments 2, 3, and 1B earned two major partnering awards, recognizing the team’s collaborative leadership and commitment to building innovative infrastructure that improves communities.

The project won the International Partnering Institute's (IPI) John L. Martin Partnered Project of the Year, Silver Award - Civil Construction, in the $25 million to $250 million category. According to IPI, every year, the institute recognizes projects and individuals who best exemplify the principles of partnering and promote its mission to spread the value of collaborative partnering to the construction industry by helping owners and other construction leaders understand how to deliver partnering that works.

The North Coast Corridor project also received the California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) Excellence in Partnering Award in the projects greater than $50 million category. According to Caltrans, the Caltrans Excellence in Partnering Awards Ceremony is an annual statewide celebration and recognition of completed partnered contracts that best exemplify the principles of partnering. The awards ceremony intends to acknowledge partnering achievements, share best practices, and commemorate project team members.

Delivered by the FlatironDragados, Skanska, and Stacy Witbeck joint venture, this project improved mobility and multimodal access along a critical stretch of I-5 in San Diego County, despite pandemic-era constraints.