Related Party Transactions

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions

(14)     Related Party Transactions

The Company leases certain facilities from Ronald N. Tutor, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and an affiliate owned by Mr. Tutor under non-cancelable operating lease agreements. On April 18, 2014, the Company and Ronald N. Tutor entered into two separate lease agreements, replacing the former leases which terminated on May 31, 2014. Each of the new leases is effective June 1, 2014 with new monthly payments of an aggregate of $0.2 million, and an increase at the rate of the greater of 3% per annum or the Consumer Price Index (“CPI”) for the Los Angeles metropolitan area beginning on June 1, 2015. Both new leases provide for purchase/sell options beginning on June 1, 2021 and June 1, 2025, respectively. Also under both leases, the fair market value shall be agreed upon by both parties, or shall be determined by a consensus of independent qualified appraisers. Lease expense for these new leases and the former leases until date of termination, recorded on a straight-line basis, was $0.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2013 and $0.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2014and $1.8 million for both the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and 2013.

Raymond R. Oneglia, who is the Vice Chairman of O&G Industries, Inc. (“O&G”), is a director of the Company. Currently the Company has a 30% interest in a joint venture with O&G as the sponsor involving a highway construction project for the State of Connecticut, with an estimated total contract value of approximately $360 million, scheduled for completion in 2016. Under this arrangement, O&G provides project-related equipment and services directly to the customer (on customary trade terms). In accordance with the joint venture agreement, payments to O&G for equipment and services for the three months ended September 30, 2014 and September 30, 2013 were $1.8and $1.9 million, respectively. Payments to O&G for equipment and services for both the nine months ended September 30, 2014 and September 30, 2013was$5.1 million, respectively. O&G’s cumulative holdings of the Company’s stock were 500,000 shares at September 30, 2014 and 600,000 shares at September 30, 2013, or 1.03% and 1.25%, respectively, of total common shares outstanding.