Raleigh-Durham Airport Selects Balfour Beatty-Metcon JV for $650M Expansion

North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham International Airport has selected a Balfour Beatty-Metcon joint venture, along with Right Build and Varnedoe Construction, for an estimated $650-million phased construction program set to increase capacity for the facility growing passenger volumes and future Research Triangle aviation demand. The joint venture will work as construction manager-at-risk for the project, part of […]

Long-Awaited Airport Terminal Soars Swiftly in Burbank

It took almost four decades to clear the $1.3-billion Hollywood Burbank Replacement Terminal for takeoff. But the flight time will take just three years if all goes well. “This is the fastest I’ve ever built anything,” says Roger Johnson, former deputy executive director for Los Angeles World Airports and now program executive with Jacobs, which […]

Wood Wizardry in Oregon: Innovation Raises the Roof for PDX Terminal

✕ Drones, self-propelled modular transporters and a curtain wall that really does hang off the roof like a curtain are all notable technologies that made installing an 18-million-lb timber roof possible at Portland International Airport. Of equal weight is the emphasis on full-scale sourcing of the timber and representing the Pacific Northwest’s residents, history and […]