Since 2009, McKissack has been serving as prime contractor on the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Independent Engineering Consultant Services (IEC) contract. Our first contract expired February 2016 and on March 1, 2016, McKissack was awarded a second consecutive contract, which will run through February 2023. 

Required under the Public Authorities Law, the IEC reports publicly to the Capital Program Oversight Committee (CPOC) of the MTA Board and assists the Board of Directors by providing oversight of the entire MTA Capital Program now comprised of a Core, Sandy Resiliency and Security components. Projects under the MTA’s 2020-2024 Capital Program, valued in excess of $54 billion, touch all facets of the transportation industry and include the MTA and its operating agencies, such as New York City Transit, which includes New York City Bus and Staten Island Railway, Long Island Railroad, Metro-North Railroad (MNR), Bridges and Tunnels and major projects executed by MTA Capital Construction. Project types include multi-billion dollar network expansion projects, bus depot, rail yard and shop reconstruction, bridge, tunnel and station rehabilitations, ADA accessibility improvements, signal system replacement and modernization, right-of-way rehabilitation and expansion, rail and bus fleet procurement, traction power sub-station replacement and upgrade, viaduct rehabilitations, Communications Based Train Control, Positive Train Control, New Fare Payment System and other risk-based, new technology or public facing projects.  

As IEC, the McKissack team monitors all major design and construction projects for compliance with construction and project management, budget, schedule, safety, and quality requirements. We provide Risk-Based project monitoring, which involves monitoring and evaluating the planned and ongoing capital programs and projects, including work scopes, budgets, cost estimates, and schedules. The projects selected for monitoring are based on risk, which encompasses projects that meet one more of the following criteria: high value, unique/complex, public facing, technology maturity, and community/operational impact.

Projects

Major MTA Capital Program projects included: No. 7 Line Extension (opened 2015), Fulton Street Transit Center (opened 2014) and Second Avenue Subway Phase 1 (opened in 2017).  

Current major projects include:

• East Side Access (LIRR service to Grand Central Terminal)
• LIRR/MNR-Positive Train Control (Federally mandated)
• LIRR-Jamaica Capacity Improvements, Phase1
• MNR-Harmon Shop Improvements, Phase V, Stages 1&2
• NYCT-Canarsie Tunnel Sandy Repair & Core Capacity Improvements
• NYCT-Coney Island Shop and Yard Flood Mitigation 
• NYCT-CBTC (Queens Blvd. line, 8th Ave. & Culver line)  
• NYCT- Bus Radio System
• NYCT/MTA Bus- Bus Procurement Program
• MNR-Hudson Line Power and C&S Restoration, Phase 1& 2
• LIRR-Main Line Double Track- Farmingdale to Ronkonkoma
• LIRR M-9 Commuter Rail Cars
• Penn Access
• Penn Station 33rd St Corridor
• ADA Accessibility Packages A and 2
• ADA 68th St/Hunter College Station
• ADA 149th St/Tremont Ave
• ADA 42nd St/Times Square Reconstruction/Phase 3 Shuttle
• B&T Throgs Neck Bridge Suspended Span Deck Replacement
• B&T Reconstruction of the Verrazzano Bridge Approach Road
• LIRR Mainline Expansion (Third Track)
• R211 Subway Cars (up to 1490 new cars)  
• MTA-OMNY 
• Times Square/Grand Central Station Reconstruction-Shuttle Phase 3

Upcoming major projects include the following:

• Second Avenue Subway – Phase II
• ADA Accessibility Packages 3 and 4
• Borough Hall Structure and Water Remediation

Since 2013, McKissack has been providing oversight on selected Superstorm Sandy projects valued at approximately $5.4 billion. Projects include NYCT’s Canarsie Tube Rehabilitation, Staten Island Railway Clifton Shop, NYCT’s South Ferry Station Complex, B&T’s Hugh L. Carey Tunnel Restoration, B&T’s Queens Midtown Tunnel Rehabilitation, Metro-North’s Hudson Line, Phase I and 2– Power and C&S Infrastructure Restoration, NYCT’s -Coney Island Shop and Yard Flood Mitigation, NYCT’s-207th street Yard Flood Mitigation & Yard Signals Upgrade. Rutgers Tube Rehabilitation, NYCT, Coney Island Shop and Yard Flood Mitigation & Cable Recovery, and NYCT, Rutgers Tube Rehabilitation.

The McKissack team also provides Security Oversight Work, which includes monitoring, evaluating, providing recommendations, and reporting on MTA Capital Security Program projects.