San Diego International Airport, The Green Build Terminal Expansion
Retrofit Team
Retrofit Team
Architecture, Engineering, Planning: HNTB, San Diego
General Contractors: Turner Construction, San Diego; PCL Construction, San Diego; and Flatiron Construction Corp., San Marcos, Calif.
Materials
At the heart of the terminal expansion is Sunset Cove, a shopping and dining area with sweeping views of the airfield and neighboring community. Inside the terminal are 140 columns clad in Starlight 7J, a reflective and uniformly textured stainless steel that offers panel-to-panel matching, fingerprint resistance, and smear and discoloration resistance suitable for high-traffic areas. The stainless steel was incorporated into the Premier Dry Seal Column Cover System. A template was created for installation for each of the 70 different column styles.
Engineer and Fabricator of Stainless Steel for Columns and the Premier Dry Seal Column Cover System: C.R. Laurence Co. Inc.
Stainless-steel Manufacturer: Contrarian Metal Resources
The Retrofit
In 2009, the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority broke ground on The Green Build terminal expansion, the largest project in the history of San Diego International Airport. A product of the Airport Authority’s Airport Master Plan, which identified ways to help meet current and future demand for air travel, the expansion added 10 new gates, a dual-level roadway to separate arriving and departing passengers, a new USO facility and 9,200-square-foot concessions core, among other things.
In April 2014, San Diego International Airport officially announced it is the first LEED Platinum commercial airport terminal in the world, complementing LEED Gold certification for the dual-level roadway and USO building portion of the project. “One of our objectives was to raise the bar in passenger experience by offering an elegant, high-quality space with a durable, timeless appearance that represents San Diego,” explains Bob Bolton, San Diego Airport Authority director of Design and Construction.