Project: San Francisco Int'l Airport, Administrative Construction Manager

OVERVIEW

San Francisco International Airport is the largest airport in the San Francisco Bay Area. It serves more than 37 million passengers annually and is the second busiest airport in California.

SFIA’s AirTrain (People Mover) is an automated light rail system. The system connects four airport terminals, two garages, BART stations and the rental car facility.

Luster has supported construction at SFO for almost a decade. As part of a joint venture, we served as part of the Administrative Construction Manager team for the $2.4 billion Master Plan program. The Master Plan involved seventy-two (72) interrelated projects designed to prepare the airport for future travel demands. The major projects under the Master Plan included:

• 1.3-million-square-foot international terminal complex, with new boarding areas
• Renovation of the existing international terminal and boarding area
• New cargo and maintenance facilities
• A new 9-level public parking structure
• New rail transit system
• New roadways, including inbound/outbound ramps and elevated circulation roads
• And expanded baggage-handling system
• Airfield improvements and FAA upgrades

Luster’s construction management services included program management, cost controls, schedule controls, document controls, value engineering, and contract compliance and administration. We also implemented the contractor verification program and monitored M/WBE compliance.

The duration and budget for the SFIA program created numerous challenges for the construction management program. When the manufacturer of the trains announced a delay in delivering them, the construction management team changed work elements in an effort to reduce the impact on the overall schedule. Our shifting of work elements reduced the delay by five months, saving the City and County of San Francisco millions of dollars.