St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group is serving as construction manager for the $435 million Port Authority of Allegheny County’s North Shore Connector project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. KWAME is part of the joint venture called TriGold, which includes Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, California and HDR, an architectural and engineering firm of Omaha, Nebraska.

The new 1.2 mile extension will expand Pittsburgh’s current 25 mile light rail transit system known as the “T,” from the Gateway subway station underneath Stanwix Street and the Allegheny River to the developing North Shore area of Pittsburgh. The project includes construction of three new stations. Read more…