Georgia Express Link Partners
Georgia Express Link Partners (GEP) is led jointly by Cintra, Macquarie Capital and John Laing as Lead Project Developers and Equity Members. We are international leaders in developing and delivering successful private-public partnership (P3) projects with expertise on critical issues such as traffic management, stakeholder engagement, environmental compliance and right-of-way acquisition. Our commitment to infrastructure investment is to develop long-term mobility solutions that benefit communities for years to come.
Project Developer and Equity Member
With its North American headquarters based in Austin, Texas, Cintra manages over $17 billion of infrastructure assets in the United States and over $6 billion of infrastructure assets in Canada. Cintra partners with government entities to help solve their local transportation mobility issues by facilitating the development of large-scale transportation infrastructure projects years sooner than otherwise possible and at vastly reduced public costs through P3 agreements.
Cintra maximizes operational efficiency and service quality over the entire life cycle of a project, from development and design to maintenance and operation. Cintra’s road projects yield tremendous benefits for the regions where they are located, including significant local job creation and economic development opportunities along the project corridors.
Project Developer and Equity Member
John Laing is a leading international investor and active manager of core infrastructure assets. We invest across the spectrum of development, in construction and already operational assets. John Laing has a proven long-term track record with investments in more than 150 projects including 19 in North America (10 of which procured as P3 projects). John Laing actively manages an existing portfolio of c.30 assets with a portfolio value of over £2 billion.
In our PPP & Project business, John Laing partners with governments, local authorities and other highly rated institutions to develop and deliver core infrastructure assets that are sustainable for the long-term and which serve the needs of local communities. We invest across a broad range of sectors including transportation, energy and utilities, telecommunications and social infrastructure. John Laing has a global footprint across 8 offices in the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Australia and Colombia.
Project Developer and Equity Member
Macquarie is a global financial services group operating in 33 markets in asset management, retail and business banking, wealth management, leasing and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advisory, capital raising and principal investment.
The diversity of our operations, combined with a strong capital position and robust risk management framework, has contributed to our 53-year record of unbroken profitability.
Lead Contractor
For more than 80 years, Ferrovial Construction has designed and built some of the most iconic, large-scale and transformative civil engineering, commercial and industrial projects spanning 50 countries and five continents. With its North American operations headquartered in Austin, Texas, Ferrovial Construction has managed nearly $13.5 billion in design-build construction since 2006, representing some of the largest, most complex transportation infrastructure projects in the United States. Currently, Ferrovial Construction is managing six major highway construction and high-speed rail development projects in California, Georgia, Texas and Virginia.
Ferrovial Construction specializes in high-profile highway, high-speed rail and bridge projects in the United States under design-build and P3s. One of the advantages of working with Ferrovial Construction is our integrated approach to design and construction leveraging our in-house engineering services team. This unified team approach allows us to deliver better, safer solutions for the local community while delivering mobility solutions with an eye to the future.
Lead Designer
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and build assets. We are more than 29,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving the quality of life.
With sustainability at the heart of everything we do, our focus is on maximizing our impact aimed at improving quality of life. The solutions we develop address important societal challenges around resilience, places, and mobility. Leveraging data and technology, we have the capabilities and services to meet client demands driven by global trends such as urbanization, climate change, digitalization, evolving stakeholder expectations and potential unforeseeable events.