Adapting an old terminal came with multiple noise challenges: muffling the sound of road traffic to the east, idling or taxiing aircraft to the west, and planes flying above.

In delivering Orlando International Airport’s $262-million South Airport Automated People Mover Complex via the construction management-at-risk approach—a first for the owner—contractor Hensel Phelps would be tasked with an unusually demanding coordination effort.

When Ginger Evans became commissioner of the Chicago Dept. of Aviation in 2015, airlines that serve O’Hare International Airport were not talking to the agency because of a failed earlier expansion plan that had to be mediated by then-U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

At a ceremony Oct. 25, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria (inset, waving) cut the ribbon to open the new international terminal at the Port Harcourt Airport.

The measure also includes $1.68 billion to help states recover from Hurricane Florence.