AECOM在7月初宣布，它已组建了一个由承包商，金融家和设计师组成的财团，以竞争在堪萨斯城国际机场设计，建造和资助新的单端机场设计。

Los Angeles-based AECOM will very likely compete in a head-to-head proposal battle with Kansas City, Mo.-based Burns & McDonnell, which announced its intention to design and finance its own KCI proposal earlier this summer. The deadline for technical proposals is July 27.

Since Burns & McDonnell put forth its proposal in June, the company added contractors JE Dunn and McCownGordon, and designers HOK, Populous, BNIM, Wellner-Architects, Garcia Architecture, and Designer Emeritus Bob Berkebile. The firm also added 20 subcontractors to what it now calls the "KCI Home Team."

Mark One Electric Co.，MMC承包商，美国工程公司，Capital Electric Construction Co.，American Fire Sprinkler，Alpha Energy and Electric Inc.，Infinite Energy Construction，KC Testing＆Engineering，Trekk Design Group LLC，FSC咨询工程师Dubois Consultants，Custom Engineering Inc.，SE3 LLC，HG Consult Inc.，SK Design Group Inc.，Leigh＆O'Kane，Leigh＆O'Kane，Tallaferro＆Browne Inc.，MC Reality Group LLC以及建筑与历史研究有限责任公司都是堪萨斯州城市公司，都是堪萨斯州城市公司在7月18日举行的工作活动中，加入了Burns＆McDonnell提案。

"Our team members have two key things in common—they know KCI and our great city like no one else, and they excel in their craft," says Ray Kowalik, chairman and CEO, Burns & McDonnell. "Building an iconic new KCI demands a hometown team that will create something we are all proud of and will put Kansas Citians to work."

Burns＆McDonnell还宣布，如果城市选出并在11月7日的选举中获得选民批准，则将在今年开始KCI项目的工作。如果该项目获得批准，伯恩斯和麦克唐纳承诺在选举后的第二天打破地面。

与此同时,艾奕康科技已经组建了一个团队,萤火虫es general contractors Turner Construction and AECOM/Hunt as well as its own financing arm and Oaktree Capital Management in what it is calling the KCI Partnership. They also created a website for the consortium.

"This is a group of companies that has worked very closely together as a team on numerous large airport projects around the U.S.," says Ian McNamara, the AECOM KCI partnership lead. "This combination of premiere designers in AECOM and Fentress (Architects), a design-build joint venture led by AECOM/Hunt and Turner and the equity sponsor grouping of AECOM Capital alongside Oaktree Capital Management—it really checked the boxes on having the participants at each of those levels. As an overall team, we work together all of the time, so it seemed like a no-brainer to us in respect to bringing this world class group of individuals and companies together."

Aecomis the top-ranked airport design firm in ENR's Top 500. Burns & McDonnell is ranked third on the list. After the two giants submit their technical proposals later this month, a separate set of financial proposals is due Aug. 10. Both AECOM and Burns & McDonnell say they expect a decision from Kansas City and the Department of Aviation weeks after those proposals so that the winning proposal can be submitted to a referendum in the Nov. 7 election. Both also said that any delay that would keep the referendum off the ballot would likely imperil the financial support of the airlines that have committed money to a new KCI.