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Balfour Beatty starts $140M California airport walkway
Aug
The U.S. arm of London-based Balfour Beatty has begun construction work on Sacramento International Airport’s pedestrian walkway in California, according to an Aug. 7 news release from the contractor. The cost of the project is $140 million, per the Sacramento County Department of Airports.
The builder, as construction manager at risk, will deliver an approximately quarter-mile walkway that contains 1,800 tons of steel, four moving walkways, four escalators and three elevators along a panoramic corridor, according to the announcement.
Once complete, the structure will connect Terminal B to Concourse B via a skybridge, and give passengers the ability to walk or ride the airport’s existing automated people mover.
The $140 million bridge is part of a larger, $1.3 billion series of improvements to the Sacramento airport, known as SMForward, per the county airport authority. It’s funded by $33 million in grant funds through the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law, as well as a low-interest federal loan through the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and airport revenue bonds.
“The Sacramento International Airport is our local airport, so we take great pride in bringing this project in for a nice smooth landing and turning it over to the community,” said Kyle Frandsen, Balfour Beatty vice president in Sacramento, in the contractor’s news release.
Balfour Beatty executed preconstruction services prior to officially starting construction, and the project will be complete in 2025, per the release.
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