For design-builders HNTB Corp. and Hensel Phelps to successfully deliver Tampa International Airport’s $326-million Blue Express Curbsides project—a first-of-its-kind facility for the U.S.—engineers and contractors would need to weave their work over, under, through and around buildings and other infrastructure comprising the tight, jam-packed jobsite located at TIA’s southern front door.
Add as that construction was ramping up in early 2020, right around the onset of COVID-19, the potential obstacles to success were waiting at every turn. With the pandemic soon in full swing, for instance, Hensel Phelps quickly had to find a way to safely transport more than 800 craftworkers to the site each day, which ultimately required a detailed transportation schedule.