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"There were so many gate restraints
at Terminals C and D before the project
began largely due to the single taxi lanes
and the way gates were shoehorned into
the building," Durney said. "If you had
an aircraft at one gate, sometimes you had
restrictions on other gates, or sometimes
you had closures at the other gates. All of
that is getting eliminated with the layout
we came up with."
Durney said the team had to connect
two departure levels at Terminals C and D
in order to remove a "spaghetti network"
of roads and ramps servicing the two
terminals. They used a prefabricated
bridge to connect the two departure levels
straight across, which allowed workers to
remove everything underneath.
"We're doing the same thing on
Terminal D, just coming from the
ground approach," Durney said.
Planners did a study on all the loads
expected on the new buildings with
available power and Durney said they
realized the airport would be short on
necessary electricty. They designed a
12-Megawatt substation, which was

placed on the roof of the new concourse.
Walls of the concourse are reinforced to
meet the expectations of a substation that
size and it will also provide redundant
power source for the rest of the airport.
"We tried to take advantage of that
construction and create the utility
infrastructure that we would need to
support the rest of the development so we
could service the rest of the development
from there," he said.

Moving to the next
level
The team will replace the Terminal C
East Concourse in the next phase of the
project, which will leapfrog over the
existing Terminal D Concourse. Durney
said the decision was made based on gate
counts and how the team could move
aircraft around to minimally
impact traffic.
The third phase will build
towards the east, with the final
concourse built at the far western
side of the terminal.
Marzullo said the team made

changes as needed while addressing the
complexities of the project. They're
focusing on making sure key personnel
take more ownership of individual areas
as they move forward to address issues.
"You have to treat this project as
multiple micro-projects because they're
so complex," Marzullo said. "We have
to be a little more focused and making
sure we're holding ourselves and our
contractors more accountable on
delivery."
The new concourse has larger gates
meaning less aircraft can be parked next
to the terminal as the older concourse is
taken out of service. Marzullo said Delta
will rely on more remote aircraft parking
to address the constraint.
"Instead of having to take a bus to
get to your aircraft, even though there's

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a couple more hardstands, we can walk
our customers out instead of having to
board a bus," he said.
For 2020, Dureny said the team
is focused on construction of the
headhouse and finalizing design of the
next concourse. The schedule calls for 75
percent completion of the entire terminal
by 2022. Total project completion is
slated for 2026.
"This next concourse is right in the
thick of the ongoing operations," Durney
said. "There will be challenges associated
with that, but we've thought them out
for a long time and very thoroughly so
I think we will be in good shape." 

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