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Global Best Projects Winner, Airports/Ports: MIA North Terminal Development Program

Photo by Steven Brooke

Builders of Miami International Airport's new $1.1-billion North Terminal transformed a 50-year-old building into a mile-long, 3.2-million-sq-ft transportation hub. The seven-year effort—broken up via five separate contracts—required demolishing two concourses and doubling the length of another concourse.

The joint venture team used a phased, gate-driven schedule to trim two years from the original construction timetable. At peak, crews produced $30 million worth of construction per month, delivering the project on schedule and with no claims.

Location Miami

Project Team

Owner Miami-Dade Aviation Dept., Miami

Designers Bermello-Ajamil & Partners, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Corgan Associates, Dallas; Leo A. Daly, Miami; Rodriguez and Quiroga, Coral Gables, Fla.; and Wolfberg Alvarez, Coral Gables

General Contractor Parsons-Odebrecht Joint Venture, Miami

Program Manager Sequeira & Gavarrete, Coral Gables, Fla.

Scott Judy is ENR’s Managing Editor. His roughly 34 years as a construction journalist began with an 11-year stint visiting and writing about construction projects in the Midwest region of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. Then, in 2000, Judy helped launch ENR Southeast, now known as ENR Texas & Southeast. After all these years, Judy says his favorite part of being an ENR editor is visiting job sites and learning how—and reporting on—a team’s approach to overcoming the project’s design and construction challenges. And Judy says he never turns down an invitation for a project visit.

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