It took almost four decades to erase the Hollywood Burbank replacement terminal of $ 1.3 billion for takeoff. But the flight time will take only three years if everything goes well.
“This is the fastest thing I built something,” says Roger Johnson, a former Deputy Director of Los Angeles World Airports and now executive of the Jacobs program, representing the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority (BGPAA).
Steel passing took place in January at the installation of 14 doors of 355,000 square meters, scheduled for the fall of 2026. The headline, Pankow, Tec Joint Venture (HPTJV), with the design firm of lead Corgan in association with Cannondesign and Burns and McDonnell, offers the project of Bur Bur in the form of progressive design.
“Despite the speed with which it is being done, the progressive design of design construction has stated that the excellence in the design and quality of the construction has not been lost,” says Johnson.
The existing terminal, which has approximately 245,000 square meters, was built in 1930. For decades, it has not fulfilled the standards of the federal aviation administration, only 250 feet from the track. In addition, it does not comply with the North -Americans with disabilities or current seismic standards. Once the new terminal is completed, the original will go through a nine -month demolition.
Last year, the airport closed $ 724.78 million from its Senior Income Links in Series A, B and C, received a federal subsidy of $ 8.2 million and approved a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) of $ 1.11 billion for design and construction.
The new facility will move passenger traffic to the west side from the east side of the airport. The features of the project include a 45,900 square meter parking area for addressing and abandonment, a new electric vehicle loading parking structure, a new air access road, shopping and dining options, updated bathrooms, a ticket lobby, baggage screening system and an updated security checkpoint.
Project officials indicate the rare opportunity to design a new terminal from scratch. The possibility is required to overcome years of turbulence due to the community budget.
The new terminal will be significantly larger than the old one, but will remain at 14 doors.
Photo courtesy of Jeremy Brenner/HPTJV
Long trip
Dan Feger, who retired as executive director of BGPAA in 2016, had been hired in 1988 as an airport engineer to help obtain a built replacement terminal. But years of demands followed, community opposition and political resentment between the officials of the city of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena.
“The environmental impact statement will not be the hard part,” he said in 2016. “The hard part was to spend endless hours in the community, rebuilding the loss of trust” since the past decades.
“This is the fastest I’ve built anything.”
—Roger Johnson, program executive, Jacobs
“The theme was noise,” says Frank Miller, who recently retired from the executive director now John T. Hakanaka. Airport officials conducted a noise compatibility planning study for 2011 until 2016; In 2022 he received almost $ 3 million in federal aid for infrastructure improvements, including $ 805,900 for a new study that will update noise exposure maps and identify where the airport can make mitigation efforts. The BGPAA also established a resident committee.
Other efforts to recover the Community Trust included a $ 100 million program for 2,500 soundproof homes and extensive public information campaigns on the need for the new terminal.
In 2016, the Council of the City of Burbank adopted an ordinance that approved a development agreement with BGPAA, which requested a special election of the municipal measure of November 8 for residents to vote in the new terminal proposed that November. The measure was approved with a 69%approval rate.
The development agreement had more than 200 conditions and restrictions, stands out Johnson. Several public design carts reported the conditions, which included maximum exposure to natural light and open air, multimodal connections and design consistency through terminal structures and others.
Above all, interest groups wanted to say that the new terminal, although larger, will only have 14 doors and there are no jet bridges.
“The size of the [new terminal] It is the maximum allowed according to the development agreement, “says Bob Bachtler, director of the HPTJV construction.” It was a very big company to get it all. It is a lifelong project for Burbank. We have to do it all right. “
Offering views of the Verdugo Hills was an important element of design, which houses visitors to southern California.
Scott Blair/Enr photo
Brightness and glamor
Brent Kelley, leader in the Corgan Aviation Sector, recalls that the airport authority told the bidders that the winning team should present three concepts for the new terminal. “We decided to play a little and do the previous work for the presentation,” he says. The design team proposed three concepts: PASEO, mid -century and icon. The concept of Pasoo adopted a “small and intimate sensation,” says Kelley. “In the middle of the century it was removed from the architectural accumism of southern California,” while the concept of the icon “was based on the idea of a glance at ancient Hollywood.” Bubbank is known for its numerous media production facilities and entertainment.
More than 70% of residents who responded to a survey voted on the concept of the icon, and the airport curators were unanimously approved, says Miller.
The project team had to solve a 30 -foot lift difference from north to south to the new place.
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Ultimately, “I would say we got some ideas from the mid -century appearance, but it really is about brightness and glamor,” says Kelley. A striking and filing marquee that will extend from the entrance to the road, the parking garage and a public square is intended to evoke the famous image of Marilyn Monroe’s flying skirt. The curvature and the folds will also offer refuge to the passengers of the sun.
The heights of the roof will reach almost 50 feet to improve the open and air sensation. The full height windows will fill the corridors and the salons of the door of natural light and frame the hills of Verdugo to north, according to the description of the Corgan project. Solar control technology will manage heat gain to maintain thermal comfort and reduce energy use. The outer square will minimize the use of water with native plantations and the reuse of gray water for irrigation. The terminal designers are aimed at certification Leed Gold.
“It’s a project of once in life.”
—Bob Bachtler, Director of Construction, HPTJV
Once the passengers go through security, “we strengthened the sense of the place creating a sense of the yard area for concessions,” says Kelley. Since the new building is facing west, “we brought sustainable concepts for energy efficiency such as glass type, fries and coatings on glass and physical shading devices on the west side.”
A planned art installation will reflect the history of the airport, including Skunk Works, a highly secretly secret engineering and design division of Lockheed Martin, which was established at the airport site in 1943 to build military aircraft. During World War II, the installation was camouflaged with timber on top of concrete. While the crews found remnants of concrete monoliths, the remedy of Brownfield was already done at some point in the past, says Bachtler.
After overcoming in January, work continues with interiors and MEP tasks.
Photo courtesy of Jeremy Brenner/HPTJV
Dig
As the airport is in a brownfield place, “we cannot simply download the water in the site; Groundwater is approximately 250 feet deep and “we have an area of 30 feet to work,” adds Kevin Fauvell, vice president of the holder.
The previous remediation work established an acceptable envelope of excavation up to 25 feet below the existing degree surface inside the work imprint, according to project officials. The excavation beyond 25 feet deep would trigger sampling protocols and additional tests to determine the characteristics of the soil.
The team developed a place plan that maintained all depths of usefulness and structural foundation above this limit, says Erik Johnson, executive of the Pankow project. They include shallow diffusion feet for the structures of the terminal and parking cover.
The joint company also found a difference of 30 feet from the north to the southern end of the project, adds Johnson. Earth’s work of approximately 280,000 Cu YD reduced it to about 6 feet, and the crews also built a retaining wall of 1,400 feet in length.
The interested parties preferred a canopy and a public space that evokes the classic Hollywood age.
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Johnson also states that the gradual nature design nature of the job design led to an effort per phase. “Instead of needing a permit for each completed sheet, we divided the work into components: terminal, parking garage and several civilian packages. They further broken down in communications for mechanics, electric, structural, etc.
Bachtler states that without Jet bridges that they had provided access to public services components, “we had to know how we wanted to guide everything in the field to facilitate operations.” The designers also faced the challenge of setting up a new full airport campus, completed with new roads.
The joint company reviewed the original conceptual sketch that included two parking garages. “We have found out how to consolidate them in one and lower a level below the degree,” says Pankow’s Johnson, a plan that used the existing slope differential. )[The original plan] He had two garages to create a corridor that offered a clear view of the hills of Verdugo, stands out Kelley. But building two garages “would be very expensive,” he says. “The natural slope of the place really helped: we could put a level below the grade, the square could go on top, we could accumulate -in the main garage and disappear with the second. Now you get a panoramic view, not just a corridor.”
“It’s about brightness and glamor.”
—Brant Kelley, leader in the Corgan Aviation Sector, talking about the subject of icon design
The 2,000 -part garage design had to find the strict electric vehicle loading provisions in the city of Burbank. The result is 900 parking stops capable of EV, says Pankow’s Johnson. The airport dedicated to Burbank Water & Power to build a new local substation to meet additional electricity needs.
In Peak, there will be about 850 daily workers on the site. And when the new terminal opens, it will be adapted to the upward trend of the airport: it set up a record by 2023 with 6 million passengers a year, and in June 2024 it reflected a 19% increase from June 2023.
Unlike the old terminal, actually two connected, the new will have a single security control point along with a new series of services. But officials comply with the public demand that retain the comfort and accessibility of their predecessor.
“It was a tremendous challenge to look at the [new] Design and decide, “Do we really do better or worse?” Said the Deputy Chief Executive Director Patrick Lammerding in a video on the airport website. “And I think we’re doing it significantly better.”
