Framingham firm lands $69.5M Death Valley contract

Perini Management Services has been awarded a $69.5-million contract to renovate water and wastewater systems in America’s hottest and driest national park. 

The Framingham-based subsidiary of California’s Tutor Perini Corp. has been selected by the National Park Service to upgrade Death Valley National Park’s water and wastewater treatment systems, some of which date back to the 1960s. The three-year project is set to commence this fall, the company announced Monday.

The water systems at Death Valley have required repairs about once a week in recent years, while wastewater failures have caused sewage spills and campground closures, according to an NPS announcement on Friday. The extreme conditions at the park increase maintenance demands on infrastructure.

The project involves rehabilitating water systems at Cow Creek and Furnace Creek, the two main hubs of the park, as well as a wastewater system jointly used by both locations. Funding for the upgrades was provided by the Great American Outdoors Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2020. 

Work by Perini Management will include replacing mains and pump stations, as well as creating new water wells and improving the capacity of the park’s lagoon. The improvements will benefit the park’s 1.7 million annual visitors and local residents. 

The Perini Corp. was founded in 1894 by Bonfiglio Perini, an Italian immigrant who resided in Framingham, according to the Framingham History Center. Perini Corp. merged with Tutor-Saliba Corp. in 2008 and moved its headquarters to Los Angeles in 2009. 

Perini Management secured a contract worth $48.6 million to rehabilitate the Main Prison Building on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay in 2024.

Eric Casey is the managing editor at Worcester Business Journal, who primarily covers the real estate and banking & finance industries.