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with as many as 30 construction cranes – has very tangible rewards up ahead. With a new international arrivals con- course, the airport will probably attract the business of two of the top airlines in the world, Lufthansa and British Air- ways. “They don’t fly there yet, but they will,” Boyd says. “The biggest challenge we have is meeting the schedule while keeping the airport open. It’s like rotating the tires as you drive down the road.” This month, Nashville is expected to select from among four firms that have submitted bids to determine the size and scope of the work, and to produce about 10 percent of the project’s initial schematic. “They’ll get us started,” says Robert Ramsey, the airport’s chief engineer and VP of development and engineering. From there, the big projects will be broken out as stand- alone jobs, and design teams will compete for the contracts for the following projects: international arrivals, terminal, lobby, concourse B, concourse D, and multi-modal transit. If a feasibility study works out the way the airport wants it to, a hotel will also be built. But there’s a catch. The firm that develops the initial schematic cannot bid on any future projects, a situation that made firms consider their options before making submittals. “Do you want to do the opening piece, or something on down the line?” Ramsey says. In addition to the big development contracts, the airport is also expected to outsource inspections and project manage- ment to local A/E/P firms. Regardless of who wins out on what, one thing is certain: A lot of architects and engineers in the Nashville market are going to get work. “We’re interested in all of it. We’re looking forward to the big project and we’re looking forward to being part of it.” “There will be a lot of pens on the drawing board,” Ramsey says. In August, the airport hired Fort Worth-based Paslay Man- agement Group as the owner’s representative to advise the airport’s administration throughout the project. The Paslay portfolio includes major aviation projects at Dallas-Fort

A Southwest Airlines jet takes off from Nashville International Airport, which is about to undergo a $1B redevelopment. / Nashville International Airport

Worth, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Phoenix, and San Diego.

With an owner’s representative, a chief design firm, and consultants for inspections and project management, not to mention the winners of the stand-alone contracts, the airport should have plenty of personnel to handle the rede- velopment. Still, completing a $1 billion project in the heat of normal business won’t be easy. “For an airport the size of Nashville, it’s pretty typical. That’s kind of the cost of entry.” “The biggest challenge we have is meeting the schedule while keeping the airport open,” Ramsey says. “It’s like ro- tating the tires as you drive down the road.” Though the overhaul at Nashville is a big project, at $1 bil- lion, the numbers are normal, says Wilson Rayfield, execu- tive vice president of aviation at GS&P , one of Nashville’s largest multidiscipline A/E/P firms. “For an airport the size of Nashville, it’s pretty typical,” he says. “That’s kind of the cost of entry.” GS&P has plenty of experience with a diverse range of proj- ects at airports across the United States and looks to be competitive when the Nashville bidding breaks out. What will GS&P be bidding on – the concourses, the terminal, or international arrivals? “We’re interested in all of it,” Rayfield says. “We’re looking forward to the big project and we’re looking forward to be- ing part of it.”

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