Case Study
San Diego International Airport Terminal 2 West Building and Airside Expansion
San Diego International Airport Terminal 2 West Building and Airside Expansion San Diego, California The airport’s largest expansion serves as an example of sustainability, passenger convenience and design-build delivery BIM resolves 1,600 issues, identifies thousands of virtual clashes Terminal is world’s first airport to earn highest LEED® certification Part of a design-build team, HNTB was lead architect of record and engineer for the San Diego International Airport’s 526,000-square-foot expansion. Using building information modeling software, the design-build team resolved more than 1,600 coordination issues and identified thousands of virtual clashes before they happened, which dramatically shortened the project schedule. The expansion added 10 gates, a food court/retail marketpla