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2020 Airport Sector Giants: Top architecture, engineering, and construction firms in the U.S. airport facilities sector

BD+C

AECOM, Hensel Phelps, and PGAL top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest airport sector architecture, engineering, and construction firms, as reported in 2020 Giants 400 Report. .

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Tensile architecture: Where substance meets style

Construction Specifier

Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.

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Style meets substance in the design and materiality of tensile architecture

Construction Specifier

Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.

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Building Hong Kong's Airport

The Constructor

The two former islands that were levelled comprise about 25% of the surface area of the airport’s 12.55 Land reclamation for the airport added nearly 1% to the entirety of Hong Kong’s surface area. The project is the most expensive airport project ever, according to Guinness World Records. km² platform.

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Grimshaw releases newest designs for world’s largest airport

BD+C

Plans for the world’s largest airport terminal, in Istanbul, are under way. ArchDaily reports that the colossal project is a collaboration between Grimshaw and four other design firms: Nordic Office of Architecture, Haptic Architects, GMW Mimarlik, and Tekeli Sisa. Body Image: read more.

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Job Order Contracting – The Legal Side

Building Information Management

A highway, road, street, bridge, utility, water supply project, water plant, wastewater plant, water and wastewater distribution or conveyance facility, wharf, dock, airport runway or taxiway, drainage project, or related type of project associated with civil engineering construction; or 2. Gov’t Code 2269.402. Gov’t Code 2269.408.

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Grimshaw releases newest designs for world’s largest airport in Istanbul

BD+C

Plans for the world’s largest airport terminal in Istanbul are underway, and new images were released. Archdaily reports that the colossal project will be conducted by a team of various firms: Grimshaw, Nordic Office of Architecture, Haptic Architects, GMW Mimarlik and Tekeli Sisa. Body Image: read more.