The Texas Transportation Commission (TCC) selected a design-build contractor for a $1.25 billion stretch of a Houston-area parkway.

Grand Parkway Infrastructure, a joint venture between Ferrovial Agroman US, Granite Construction and Webber, will design and build the 44-mile tollway extension, which will include two toll lanes and passing sections.

The Texas Department of Transportation says that Grand Parkway Infrastructure will build Segments H and I-1, a new tolled two-lane controlled access facility, with intermittent four-lane sections for passing from US 59 North to I-10 East (approximately 38 miles); Segment I-2 which includes four additional toll lanes from FM 1405 to SH 146 (approximately six miles); and upgrade the tolling equipment of an existing tolled four-lane facility from I-10 East to FM 1405.

Construction work will begin in early 2018 and is scheduled to be substantially complete in early 2022. When complete, the highway will stretch for 180 miles around Houston. The toll to drive the entire highway is expected to be around $10.