Sterling Construction Company Inc - STRL - reported that Ralph L. Wadsworth in conjunction with J. Banicki Construction Incorporated, its recently acquired Arizona-based subsidiary, was apparent low bidder on the $71 million Gateway Freeway State Route 24 project in Mesa, Arizona. The Arizona Department of Transportation project consists of freeway to freeway ramps connecting to State Route 202 from about Power Road to Elliot Road and constructing State Route 24 (a new freeway) for about one mile to the southeast ending at Ellsworth Road. The project has approximately one mile of flyover box beam bridge and one million cubic yards of imported fill. The project, which will begin March 2012, has an estimated duration of 18 months.