New Article Ranks Airport Project Among "Top in the Nation"

New Airport Terminal Construction Ranks Among "Top in the Nation"

The Orlando Sentinel reports “Orlando airport new terminal construction ranks among the top in the nation”

As BSCI continues work on new airport terminal APM/ITF facilities at the Orlando International Airport, the project is making headlines.

The new terminal is slated to help increase the Orlando International Airport’s passenger capacity by 11 million per year.

Excerpts below appeared in the Orlando Sentinel article by Kevin Spear published on March 04, 2019

Orlando International Airport’s construction of a new terminal is about 20 percent complete.

“This is one of the top two projects in the country,” said Orlando airport director Phil Brown, drawing from a new ranking by the Airports Council International while giving a broad update.

[The] construction of a new terminal complex a mile south of the original A and B terminals of Orlando International has about 1,800 workers at the 300-acre site. The peak workforce is expected to be about 2,500.

Terminal C at the new complex is to open in 2021, Brown said, with 19 gates out of a projected 60 gates. The airport’s planning through 2031, with no deadlines or certain milestones established yet, includes Terminal D and another 60 gates.

All of nearly 3,500 foundation pilings for Terminal C have been installed and steel framing for its soaring roof is starting to take shape.

Terminal C will differ from the enclosed terminals A and B in routing arriving passengers through long, soaring hallways with walls of windows and ceiling skylights.

Brown said the airport is handling passengers at a rate of nearly 48 million annually, although terminal’s A and B are equipped to optimally accommodate 40 million annually.

The new Terminal C, which will host JetBlue and other airlines, is to significantly boost airport capacity for passengers.