Hensel Phelps to Lead Boise Airport’s $700M Expansion

Two phases of terminal enhancements will even reconfigure passenger flows and add capability. Underneath town’s not-to-exceed (NTE) framework, this system will advance via a number of assured most value packages returned to the council for approval. No native taxpayer {dollars} are slated for both capital or operations, town stated. 

Fentress Architects is main program design underneath a city-approved skilled companies contract set at an NTE of $42.465 million for as much as six years. Native companies ZGA Architects, Cator Ruma and The Land Group joined the Fentress group for structure/allowing, MEP planning and civil/panorama assist, respectively, the airport stated. 

Jacobs is offering proprietor’s consultant companies to reinforce airport employees on program administration and supply, in keeping with a November 2024 airport fee report. The identical report particulars ongoing enabling work and early funding steps for the concourse effort. 

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Demand drivers stay pronounced; Boise set a file with 4,990,885 complete passengers in 2024—up 5% from 2023—pushing amenities past right-sized capability on peak days, the airport reported. The airport reiterated the decade-long progress determine (2014-2024) in a Feb. 5 replace outlining the BOI Improve roadmap. Airport authorities anticipate that Concourse A development will begin following apron work and ramp packages someday in 2027. 

Boise Airport’s elevated visitors over the previous decade is driving the multi-million-dollar enlargement to extend capability and improve amenities.

The examine consists of a listing of present situations, aviation forecasts, facility necessities, environmental and monetary feasibility evaluations, in addition to a safety vulnerability evaluation and land use evaluation.

In keeping with the airport, “stakeholder engagement will embody technical advisory and dealing group consultations, together with three public conferences scheduled later within the examine; these public open homes are a possibility to maintain key stakeholders and the general public knowledgeable and to assemble precious suggestions on the plan’s progress.”

Funding will draw on airport-generated revenues and aviation financing instruments reasonably than native property taxes, per town’s Sept. 3 announcement. Parts embody a $9-million FAA Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation Airport Terminal Program grant earmarked to obtain long-lead passenger-boarding bridges and associated ground-service gear for Concourse A. The scheme additionally affirmed investment-grade rankings on present airport income bonds, positioning the airport for added capital issuance. 

Hensel Phelps’ CM/GC function will emphasize constructability, phasing and price management in an working terminal, town stated. The NTE contract construction permits the airport to sequence work as funding is secured, and priorities evolve throughout baggage, utility and concourse packages. 

Boise is served by 9 airways with 27 nonstop locations and stories greater than $2.9 billion in annual financial impression regionally, in keeping with the airport. 

ENR requested further particulars on anticipated GMP timing, phasing milestones and subcontracting alternatives from Hense Phelps; the corporate declined the request.