The contract is for an automated people mover (APM) complex that will be developed to the south of the main airport terminal.
Orlando International Airport is the 13th busiest airport in the USA and was originally designed to accommodate 24 million passengers annually, but currently handles more than 35 million.
The work on the south airport APM complex is one of the first steps in upgrading the airport’s capacity to handle an expected 40 million passengers by 2016.
Atkins’ group manager Craig Sucich said: “This contract presents many demanding opportunities including a construction-management-at-risk delivery method, fast-track construction, sustainable design, construction safety, and phasing planning. Our team is up to the challenge since we have successfully completed similar projects at major airports throughout the country.”
Atkins is the primary provider of all civil engineering work on the project and will support the primary architecture design team in designing all elements of the APM complex. It will be designed to be incorporated into a proposed new south terminal, the development of which has not yet been determined. The plan is to design the APM in such a way as to eliminate or minimise potential future integration or upgrade-related costs and impacts to airport operations.
Development of the south airport APM complex will relieve passenger capacity constraints in the main (north) terminal complex and serve as a connection from the main terminal to a 2,400-space car-park structure being built as part of the APM complex. Atkins will be responsible for designing new roads, bridges, utilities, and grading and drainage.
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