Apple has parted ways with the Swedish contractor working on Apple s new 2.8 million-square-foot campus.
Weeks ago, Silicon Valley Business Journal reported that the joint DPR Construction Inc. and Skanska USA would transition completely off the project in the next several weeks. Skanska has released a statement saying they and an unidentified client were not able to reach an agreement in negotiations, and the client has chosen to terminate the contract. The amount of lost work is said to cost roughly $800 million.
Recode reports that a Cupertino city official has confirmed that DPR and Skanska have been replaced by Rudolph & Sletten, which has built facilities at the University of California, San Francisco and University of San Diego, and Holder Construction, which has built the Devon Energy Tower, a 50-story skyscraper and the 39th tallest building in the U.S.
Apple s new spaceship campus was approved two years ago. Housing a 1,000-seat auditorium, a fitness center, and research facilities sizing up to 600,000 square feet, the campus is located on the former Hewlett-Packard campus near I-280.
Photo: Courtesy the City of Cupertino – An updated rendering depicts the proposed new Apple campus.
