San Diego Airport Airside Expansion

San Diego, CA

Details

  • Size: 526,000 square feet 
  • Completion Date: 2015 
  • Sustainability: LEED Platinum 
  • Awards:
    2014 Project of the Year, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Diego Section
    2014 Aviation Project of the Year, California Transportation Foundation Transportation Awards
    National Award of Excellence – Aviation Category, Design-Build Institute of America 
    National Award of Merit – Aviation Category, Design-Build Institute of America
    American Public Works Association Award, APWA Chapter Awards

Team

  • Architect: HNTB Architecture 
  • Contractor: Turner Construction, PCL Construction 

The San Diego International Airport Airside Expansion is a design-build delivery terminal expansion that achieved LEED Platinum certification – the first airport project to ever achieve this goal. Completed in 2015, the project consisted of 526,000 square feet of new public and non-public areas, providing 10 additional contact aircraft gates, while the airside pavement expansion incorporates an area of 1.5 million-square feet including aircraft parking, aprons, taxiways and taxi lanes.