West Terminal Station Concrete – Sky Train® Stage 2
Client
City of Phoenix Aviation Department
Location
PHOENIX, ARIZONA (PHX AIRPORT)
Delivery
Structures, Aviation
Cost
$10.31M
Date Completed
February 2020
AWARDS
- Arizona ACI – 2021 Best in Concrete Project of the Year – Transportation Category
DESCRIPTION
Banicki’s award-winning work on the West Terminal Station featured the construction of two 540’ long parallel cast-in-place, post-tensioned box girder guideway elements and supporting beams. Banicki’s scope included the construction of all cast-in-place concrete elements above the drilled shaft foundations, including the steel cased columns.
As part of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport’s $745M Sky Train® Stage 2 Project, the West Terminal Station is an extremely robust structure unlike all other stations on the Sky Train®. The West Terminal Station is designed and constructed to handle future loading as the framework for a new airport terminal. Due to the unknown design of the future terminal buildout, all cast-in-place structural elements were designed and constructed with an abundance of reinforcing steel and utilized 6,000 PSI high-performance concrete.
Banicki worked hand in hand with falsework supplier EFCO to engineer and develop the extremely heavy-duty falsework system required to support the large construction loads on this project. The post-tensioned box girders and intermediate beams were built off a soffit deck platform constructed atop 30’ tall falsework elements.