State transportation officials have chosen a team led by Kiewit Infrastructure Group Inc. to do the estimated $1.2 billion reconstruction and expansion of I-70 across north Denver, between I-25 and Chambers Road.

Kiewit is part of the employee-owned construction company based in Omaha, Neb., and the North American arm of Paris-based Meridiam, a global investor in infrastructure.

The Kiewit-Meridiam team beat out three other competing teams for the public-private partnership with the Colorado Department…