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Skanska Begins On Cargo Facility, General Service Building at SFO By Jay Nachman CEG CORRESPONDENT
A Link-Belt 350x4 excavator demolishes an existing structure at San Francisco International Airport.
In addition to the cargo facility, Skanska is constructing a 23,000-sq.-ft. ground service equipment, or GSE maintenance building, on the 10-acre site.
In addition to the cargo facility and the GSE building, the project includes an additional cargo facility, new parking structure and new underground utilities.
Skanska USA Building is demolishing an outdated 35,000-sq.-ft. structure at San Francisco International Airport, which is where a new 98,000-sq.-ft. cargo building will rise. Though the construction is expected to be completed in December 2027, the airport is in the process of identifying potential tenants for the new cargo facility, according to Gordon Childress, executive vice president and general manager of Skanska in California. The new cargo facility will be multi-tenanted, and spaces are being built out in sizes ranging from 1,500 to 50,000 sq. ft. “What we do have specifics on are the requirements of separating what would be called the air side from the land side,” Childress said. “So, anything that is coming into the facility is separated and has to go through a review process before it can come to the land side. We do know that we have those requirements.” The cargo building also will have 25,000 sq. ft. of mezzanine office space. In addition to the cargo facility, Skanska is constructing a 23,000 sq. ft. ground service equipment, or GSE maintenance building, on the 10-acre site. The site is called the West Field Development because the construction of the new buildings is taking place on the west side of the airport. The GSE building will serve as what Johana Godoy, Skanska’s assistant superintendent on the project, called a "laydown” or maintenance shop for the airport. “All the field service vehicles for the airline will have this ground service equipment facility support, baggage handling, fueling, things like that, which are outsourced. That’s what a lot of the ground service equipment building is for,” Childress said.
The new cargo facility will be multi-tenanted, and spaces are being built out in sizes ranging from 1,500 to 50,000 sq. ft.
In addition to the cargo facility and the GSE building, the project includes an additional cargo facility, new parking structure and new underground utilities. The development also calls for an administration building in the future and pedestrian-friendly updates, Childress said. The updating of the facilities is being undertaken as part of an airport modernization that will improve efficiency and security, Childress said. The outdated 35,000-sq.-ft. structure being demolished to make way for the cargo building was low, so a wrecking ball wasn’t needed. To bring the building down, Skanska used a Link-Belt 350 X4 crawler excavator with saw teeth. Concurrently, Skanska is laying the foundation for the GSE building. For the foundation work, the Skanska team performed excavations using a Hyundai 380 excavator, infilled the new pad using a Hamm H10i pad foot compactor and drilled piles with Fundex TBX45 torque-driven pile and Fundex TBX 35 torque-driven pile rigs. see SKANSKA page 6