Turner, FlatironDragados deliver Phase 1 of $3B San Diego airport terminal

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Turner and FlatironDragados celebrated the opening of the new Terminal 1 at San Diego International Airport, in accordance with a Tuesday information launch.

The three way partnership delivered the primary part of the $3 billion progressive design-build job, which initially broke floor in 2021. The part provides a brand new terminal constructing with 19 gates, together with roughly 5 miles of recent roadways, together with elevated departures and arrivals lanes, and a 5,200-space parking plaza.

Airport leaders have pitched the general mission as important to dealing with rising passenger demand. A second part of the San Diego mission, slated to start out subsequent month, will add one other 11 gates to Terminal 1, bringing the entire to 30 by early 2028, in accordance with the discharge.

Vacationers will discover new facilities similar to an outside eating space with a downtown metropolis skyline view, 15 concessionaires, commissioned art work and extra enhancements all through the airport, in accordance with the discharge. The Turner-FlatironDragados JV group additionally put in the terminal’s luminous wave wall, which is able to enable muted gentle all through the ticketing and concourse ranges.

However the mission has not been without controversy.

In 2023, Turner briefly shut the location down after a sequence of hate-motivated incidents prompted anti-bias coaching for greater than 1,200 employees. Regardless of the pause, the job remained on schedule, topping out in December of that yr.

With this opening, San Diego joins a slew of different U.S. airports delivering billion-dollar terminals.

For instance, Tampa Worldwide Airport revealed renderings in June for the $1.5 billion Airside D, a brand new terminal with 16 gates. Greeley, Colorado-based Hensel Phelps, Kansas Metropolis, Missouri-based HNTB and San Francisco-based Gensler are main the mission.

In Chicago, a three way partnership of AECOM Hunt Clayco Bowa formally began building in August on O’Hare Worldwide Airport’s $1.3 billion Terminal D project.