Next year, officials at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) in California will wrap up a $1.3-billion modernization program that adds more than 840,000 sq ft of new terminal space, a 1.6-million-sq-ft consolidated rental car and parking garage, and a streamlined internal road network.
The program only got under way in mid-2007 and was originally projected to cost more than three times as much and take 10 years to complete. What made the difference was negotiated design-build project delivery, says Dave Maas, SJC’s planning and development director.