A legal battle of more than two years between the port of Seattle and Clark Construction during the project of the international facilities of the arrival of Seattle-Tacoma Airport in Seattle-Tacome has reached a conclusion of liquidation before The test phase.
The project, which has a new international arrival room, a redesign of the face of the Concourse A and a southern satellite terminal redesigned in April 2022. The port claims that the terminal was planned to house 20 large bodies to cats at any time.
The port of Seattle sued Clark Construction in January 2023 for $ 100 million claiming that only 16 large body planes could fit into the new doors that supported the arrival room at the same time. This demand occurred after Maryland’s Clark’s construction demanded the port for more than $ 60 million plus legal rates in December 2022 for costs associated with design changes and reducing pandemic.
While Clark performed the leadership of the design design project, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was the Architecture Firm of the Arrival Room and Arrup served as the designer of the new doors.
In liquidation agreement documents, as reported Puget Sound Business JournalClark will pay the port of $ 28 million and the port will pay Clark $ 13.79 million. An ARUP spokesman told Enr that the firm could not comment on the liquidation given the confidentiality of the agreement. Clark and port spokesmen did not return the comments.
In 2023, Arrup told Enr that the progressive design design process Clark, Som, Arup and the port that worked collaboratively in the new installation, configured around existing fuel pits and boarding bridges. of passengers. At that time, Arrup said that if the port needed an additional operational flexibility beyond what was in the contract, “we will be happy to explore alternatives with the team together.”
The port stated by 2023 that the capacity problems at the door could cause “damage to port operations in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars during the expected life of this project”, and gives the airport “a problem International flight capacity that this project was originally intended to solve. ”
The port has said he is working to deal with deficiencies, but a new plan has not been made public.
The project replaced a 50 -year -old facility for a five -time at 450,000 square meters and offers the world’s longest aerial walkway over an active taxi lane. The light deployment of 610 feet in length and the vertical settlement of 85 feet allows the space for the aircraft that are safely imposed.
To ensure that construction did not interfere with airport operations, crews used the accelerated bridge construction method to build the walkway in several pieces. With 17 main prefabricated components, the structure of 3,000 tons needed seven steel manufacturers all within a three -hour radius of the project to create the components.
With single steel pieces with a weight of up to 170 tons and sell with unique angles, individual welds up to 6 feet in length and 3.5 in depth. The most complex prefabrication component, the center of the center, was built outside the site at the northern end of the airport, about 2 kilometers from the location of the bridge.
