December 18, 2008 - Indianapolis Airport Awards
The Indianapolis International Airport Midfield Terminal has won the following awards.
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The Indianapolis International Airport Midfield Terminal has won the following awards.
MoreThornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, was the structural engineer for three Midwest-based projects receiving top honors from Midwest Construction magazine.
By year-end, passengers at Indianapolis International Airport will come and go from a new terminal and 7,100-car parking deck, all part of a $1.1-billion improvement project more than 30 years in the making.
In 1992 a study commissioned by the Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA) confirmed the need for a new midfield terminal complex. In 1996, the annual passenger volume exceeded seven million for the first time, and the following year a new Terminal Master Plan Update for the airport put forth a new terminal project, in preference to expanding the existing terminal.
For most airports, increasing capacity means adding a new terminal or expanding an existing one. This fall, however, passengers flying into and out of Indianapolis will be passing through not just a new terminal but a completely new airport.
Three decades in the planning and three years in construction, the final costs of the new passenger terminal and other midfield developments at Indianapolis International Airport remain pegged on budget at $1.07 billion.