PROJECT PROFILE / DELTA AIR LINES TERMINAL REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

REBUILDING DELTA’S LAGUARDIA HOME

Delta Air Lines is on a mission to redevelop and improve the terminal complex at LaGuardia Airport — without reducing gates or operational functions during construction. Demolishing two existing terminals is no small task, but to meet increasing passenger needs and new flood zone requirements it must be done.

 

30.1M

PASSENGERS, ON AVERAGE, USE AIRPORT EACH YEAR
 

12.1M

PASSENGERS, ON AVERAGE, USE DELTA AIR LINES AT AIRPORT
 

1.2M

SQUARE FEET

PROJECT STATS

Client
Delta Air Lines

Location
Flushing, New York

Completion Date
2022

More than 30 million passengers use New York’s LaGuardia Airport each year. As LaGuardia’s largest airline, with more than 12 million passengers in 2018, it’s important that Delta Air Lines continues to provide the best possible service to its passengers.

To keep up with traveler demands, while also meeting new flood zone requirements and New York City building codes developed after Superstorm Sandy, Terminals C and D are being consolidated into Delta’s new state-of-the-art home, Terminal C.

Every decision the design and construction teams make is to minimize project impacts to customers, employees and the surrounding community. To accomplish this task, innovative phasing proposals were required before a strategic design could be created for the project. The schedule had to be developed in a way that would allow operations to continue even as the many components of the new terminal were being constructed.

With proven past performance with Los Angeles World Airports and experience with LAX standards and processes, our team was selected to design and construct the new 27,000-square-foot GSE facility. With the schedule demand, an integrated design-build project delivery is being used as the most suited method for success. By maintaining all design and construction disciplines in-house, operations are running as a single, seamless entity.

 

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Our team is providing design and construction administration services for the new terminal and is coordinating efforts in collaboration with Delta and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to determine airside, terminal and landside operational needs.

Even before construction began, the existing infrastructure was significantly limited and required major expansion to the power, water, sanitary and communication infrastructure systems. A new substation has been installed as part of the project and all stakeholders, including Burns & McDonnell, Consolidated Edison, the Port Authority and Delta, developed a solution for this substation to be located within the new Terminal C.

The project also includes new access roads, security measures and parking facilities, in addition to the opportunity to achieve a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification. One of the project’s sustainable components features a new ice storage system that will be able to create ice during the night to offset high daytime electrical costs.

The new terminal will be approximately 1.1 million square feet and will include a new headhouse, four concourses and a new Delta Sky Club. It will accommodate a total of 37 gates, which will be connected by a centralized check-in lobby, security checkpoint and baggage claim. Two concourses and the headhouse will be substantially complete and operational by early 2022, with the rest of the program scheduled to finish in 2026.

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