The COVID19 crisis has slowed global air travel to a virtual standstill in the last several months, but the impacts don’t seem to have halted momentum to complete a $2.7-billion state-of-the-art terminal aimed at raising the perennially low profile of Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., as well as helping propel some recovery for the New York-New Jersey region’s hard-hit economy.

纽约和新泽西州机场所有者港口管理局的建设1始于2018年，这与该州其他项目关闭了两个多月，这是“必不可少的”新利18备用网址SQ-FT设施和33个新大门，以取代已过时的47年历史的终端A，并创建了必要的21世纪地区空中枢纽。

"We never paused," claims Ron Tutor, chairman and CEO of California-based contractor Tutor-Perini Corp., which in joint venture with Parsons Transportation Corp. won Terminal 1’s fixed-price design-build contract.

Panynj表示最初打算在明年“下旬”完成终端的第21门闸门，并在2022年底之前进行全面运行。但是目前尚不清楚这些截止日期是否会持有病毒后。

Budget 'Hole'?

尽管执行董事里克·科文（Rick Cotton）在5月份说，尽管区域旅行和商业发生了很大的下降“blew a $3-billion hole”在未来两年的Panynj收入中，该机构表示，第一航站楼的资金已经到位。它没有公开宣布的资金变更或完成延迟。

The project is the largest PANYNJ has ever done in New Jersey. Tutor says “it’s too soon” to comment on potential impacts to schedule or budget.

根据机构统计，该机场直接雇用了约21,000名员工，并在区域经济活动中贡献了超过270亿美元。Panynj说，终端1将创造23,000个工作岗位。

新终端将减轻A码头中的问题，其中包括无法入住的区域，安全性和行李索赔，以及正面道路上的空间限制。还将建造一个新的3,000辆汽车停车设施。新航站楼的航空公司租户尚未宣布。现在使用终端A的航空公司包括American，JetBlue，加拿大航空和阿拉斯加。

Having some 40 months to deliver the first 21 gates is “a phenomenally short time frame,” says Michael Garz, senior vice president of team design firm STV. “We had to make significant decisions very early on.” Terminal A, which opened in 1973, was designed with a maximum capacity of 9 million passengers a year. Terminal 1 will handle 13.6 million annual travelers and could expand.

Terminal architect Grimshaw’s Mark Husser, project partner in charge, and Nikolas Dando-Haenisch, design manager, say its design emphasizes “clear lines of circulation and intuitive wayfinding, creating ease of movement in a naturally light, open and inviting environment.”

Common Use Approach

They also note a “central element” that is now emerging in aviation, “the common use approach of the facility.” Terminal 1 will allow for “interchangeability of check-in, processing, gate assignments and other aspects to allow for operational flexibility and adaptability as the industry addresses change,” say the executives.

While all three New York City regional airports are on tight sites compared with many others in the U.S., Terminal 1 was able to be located on space vacated by UPS and Postal Service facilities. Recent construction work has not had as much of an impact on day-to-day airport operations as at LaGuardia Airport in Queens N.Y., now undergoing an$8-billion upgradeof facilities and infrastructure while in use.

Specific protocols to address health and safety are currently under review to allow the terminal to reflect appropriate recommendations at the time of opening,” say Husser and Dando-Haenisch. The terminal will be built to a LEED Silver sustainability rating. According to STV’s Garz, the team completed the design within 18 months from the notice to proceed, accommodating an “evolution” in standards by the Port Authority.

Nigel Newton, New Jersey office manager for transportation at Parsons, says the major challenge “was executing a design-build contract surrounded by seven other design-bid-build contracts.” He says they all “had to coordinate regarding utility reconstruction, land availability and schedule.” But according to Newton, COVID-19 eased some aspects of work, “including building pipe connections between the new terminal and the central heating-cooling plant. The trench for the pipes had to be built through a parking lot, and reduced use of that lot helped accelerate our work.”

This job is in a wide-open area with no connections to any existing buildings,” says Tutor. “It makes our job easier.” He says COVID-19 work protocols and impacts caused some terminal subcontractors to stop work temporarily, but overall project work has not been interrupted.

Forward Spin

老师说，机组人员完成了钢制勃起，并已开始建造一座1,000英尺长的桥梁，该桥梁跨越了新航站楼的前立面以及将连接到新停车场的行人桥。

Terminal A’s current configuration, with gates clustered in a circle, has been an issue in airplane maneuverability.

At the new terminal, gates will be arrayed along three long wings, which also can provide more space for larger aircraft, such as Boeing 777s. The new terminal is designed with the option to expand to 45 gates. Other airside improvements include the addition of dual taxi-lanes to help planes travel faster to and from gates.

去年雇佣来管理和运营终端1nd run its concessions is well-known Munich Airport International, which Cotton said “allows us to deliver on that promise of operational excellence.”

Still on the PANYNJ drawing board is a new $2-billion whole airport monorail to replace the existing 23-year-old system. The agency’s current financial situation leaves its budget, scope and timing unclear.

How quickly regional air travel will return to the pace that triggered the need for Newark Airport's expanded facilities also remains to be seen, as does the amount of federal funding that PANYNJ will receive to keep its ambitious capital investment program intact.

"If we don’t get federal aid, we’re going to be looking at every project,” Cotton said in May.