Navy Raises Tutor Perini-Nan’s Guam Breakwater Contract to $563M

The U.S. Navy exercised roughly $232-million value of choices on its contract with a three way partnership of Tutor Perini Corp. and Nan Inc. for the Apra Harbor Waterfront Repairs Undertaking in Guam, the contractors introduced. The added scope of labor brings the contract’s whole worth as much as about $563 million.

The venture’s major focus is the 3-mile-long Glass Breakwater, which bounds the northern aspect of Apra Harbor. Each Naval Base Guam and the Port of Guam are situated within the harbor. The breakwater was broken by Hurricane Mawar in 2023 and is now a failed construction susceptible to breach in one other storm, in keeping with the Navy. 

Naval Services Engineering Techniques Command (NAVFAC) Marianas selected the joint venture for an preliminary $330.6-million design-build contract final fall with a deal with essentially the most severely broken sections of the breakwater, and plans so as to add extra repairs as contract choices if funding was obtainable. With the contract choices now exercised, the contractors will restore the complete size of the breakwater, in addition to carry out shoreline repairs throughout the interior harbor. 

Design work is already underway, and Tutor Perini stated in an announcement that it expects to start out in-water development later this 12 months. Substantial completion is scheduled for July 2029. 

Tutor Perini is the managing companion within the three way partnership, with its Guam-based subsidiary Black Building Corp. executing its work. Nan is a 30% companion within the JV. They had been one in all 5 groups Navy officers chosen in 2021 to compete for up to $8 billion in work through indefinite supply/indefinite amount contracts underneath its Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program.

Throughout a name with buyers Feb. 27, Tutor Perini CEO and President Gary Smalley highlighted the Guam work as a part of a slate of tasks that helped the contractor attain a document $18.7-billion backlog.

“Our extraordinary backlog development in 2024 was pushed by $12.8 billion of latest awards and contract changes,” he stated.