Hensel Phelps nabs $700M Idaho airport contract

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Hensel Phelps is including one other airport venture to its portfolio — the town of Boise, Idaho, tapped the builder for its Concourse A and Terminal Enhancements job. The contract carries a not-to-exceed price tag of $700 million for tasks by 2029, in accordance with a Sept. 3 information launch.

Town council picked Hensel Phelps at its Aug. 19 assembly for a building supervisor/common contractor contract, also known as a construction manager at risk supply methodology, in accordance with the information launch. Enhancements to the joint civil and military airport will embody:

• Concourse A, with as much as 10 new gates to accommodate future passenger development and air service choices.
• An expanded back-of-house baggage dealing with system.
• A central utility plant.
• Two phases of enhancements to enhance passenger movement and improve capability within the current terminal.

The Concourse A and Terminal Enhancements tasks are a part of Boise Airport’s broader BOI Improve capital growth program, which is designed to fulfill the wants of Boise and the broader Treasure Valley area, per the discharge. 

Since 2014, the airport has seen an 81% improve in passenger site visitors and reached almost 5 million passengers in 2024. Passenger volumes within the first half of the yr have already surpassed 2024’s record-setting numbers, in accordance with the town.

Town selected the CM/GC, or CMAR, methodology to make sure collaboration, flexibility and price certainty, in accordance with the discharge. Certainly, the delivery method has become popular with states trying to construct advanced infrastructure.

And Hensel Phelps has no scarcity of expertise — in 2025 alone, the contractor has worked on several major airport projects, together with the $2 billion John Glenn Worldwide Airport in Columbus, Ohio; the $1.5 billion Tampa Worldwide Airport Airside D venture in Tampa, Florida; and the transforming of Concourse A at Nashville Worldwide Airport in Nashville, Tennessee, a $1.5 billion whole enterprise.