Engineer firm to review plans for replacement terminal at Hollywood Burbank Airport
An engineering firm will be looking over Hollywood Burbank Airport’s conceptual plans for its replacement 14-gate terminal and the coinciding facilities.
Board members of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority voted 7-0 during their meeting last week to pay Los Angeles-based Buro Happold Consulting Engineers Inc. $604,500 to review the conceptual plans to determine if there are components to the project that airport officials are missing, said Patrick Lammerding, the airfield’s deputy executive director of planning and development.
Board members Bill Wiggins and Steve Madison were absent.
The firm will also estimate the cost of the entire project, which includes constructing the 14-gate replacement terminal on an area known as the B-6 parcel at the airport, building a new parking structure, demolishing the current Terminals A and B and parking structure and adding new roads that will lead to the new terminal.
Lammerding said the conceptual plans were created from standards and requirements established in the development agreement that was approved by Burbank residents in the Measure B vote during the November 2016 election, and from the initial development review plans airport officials submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration.
“It gives us an additional refinement and definition prior to any design effort,” he said
Lammerding said Buro Happold is not developing a design or construction document, but rather a report to tell the airport whether its plans for the replacement terminal are sufficient or if changes need to be made.
He added that the cost estimates will benefit the airport by giving him and his colleagues an idea of how much everything will cost.
Frank Miller, executive director of Hollywood Burbank, told board members they cannot move forward with any design planning for the replacement terminal until the FAA is finished with its environmental impact report on the project, which can take up to two years.
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