Myriad airports across the U.S. are undertaking massive, often multi-billion-dollar construction programs aimed at expanding and modernizing their aging facilities, and that definitely includes the Pacific Northwest region.
In Portland, Ore., for example, crews are planning a nine-acre mass timber roof as part of the $2.15-billion PDX Next project at Portland International Airport’s main terminal. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, with nearly $4 billion worth of airport projects planned for the next five years, recently opened an 85-ft-tall, 780-ft-long aerial walkway across an active taxi lane. And in British Columbia, Vancouver International Airport’s largest terminal expansion in more than 25 years includes a glassed-in island forest that gives visitors to the expanded Pier D access to open-air nature in the middle of a terminal.