Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Int'l Rebuilds Terminal from Bare Bones
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The Alabama airport also gained a new Budget & Funding First concourse and Federal Inspection Station, consolidated security Seeds for BHM’s Terminal Modernization Project were planted a into a single checkpoint, added a new baggage screening system decade ago, when the airport authority began strategizing about and much more. how to bring the 1970s terminal into the 21st century — and what “The old facility was in disrepair,” explains kind of budget that would require. Discussions with the airlines and Alfonso Denson, president and chief executive customer surveys helped establish strategic goals, and the airport officer of the Birmingham Airport Authority. authority began thinking about how the project would be funded. “The infrastructure was no longer able to It contracted KPS Group to design the facility, and later hired accommodate what we needed in order a joint venture of BLOC and Brasfield & Gorrie as construction to offer the public and our stakeholders a Alfonso Denson manager at risk to help define costs. first-class facility. Our only option was to strip “We wanted to do things right on the front end — define the everything down to the steel beams and rebuild. In the process, costs before we started,” Denson recalls. “We lined up the federal november | december 2014 AirportImprovement.com Photo: ©Fred S. Gerlich Studio, Courtesy of KPS Group, Inc. factsfigures Project: Terminal Reconstruction Location: Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Int’l Airport Cost: $201.5 million Funding: $62 million passenger facility charge bonds; $50 million airport bonds; $41.8 million Airport Improvement Program grants; $16.1 million passenger facility charges; $14.3 million TSA; $6.5 million FAA Voluntary Airport Low Emissions Program; $10.8 million Birmingham Airport Authority Architecture & Design: KPS Group Construction Manager at Risk: Brasfield & Gorrie/BLOC (joint venture) Program Manager: A.G. Gaston Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing & Fire Protection: KHAFRA Lighting Design: SSOE Engineering Structural Engineering (new construction): MBA Engineers Structural Engineering (renovations): LYBD Engineering Photo: ©Fred S. Gerlich Studio, Courtesy of KPS Group, Inc. Civil Engineering & Airfield Electrical Engineering: Atkins LEED Consultant, Commissioning: Interface Engineering Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Int’l Strips Terminal to Bones & Rebuilds By Robert Nordstrom Geotechnical Testing: Terracon Materials Testing: BECC Stormwater Monitoring: Building & Earth funding with TSA and FAA, got the passenger tenants and a project for which they could Code Consultant: Rolf Jensen & Assoc. facility charge application approved. We made secure funding and financing,” Plosser explains. Surveying: Carr & Assoc. sure that the cost to the airlines would not be Field Representative: Dorsey Architects & Assoc.