North Terminal MIA

The Project won the Global Best Project Award of Merit for Airports announced by ENR. 

The  $1.1 billion North Terminal Development Program is a portion of the  larger $2.95 billion Miami Airport North Terminal Development, created  to handle the ever-increasing passenger traffic demands at Miami  International Airport. Odebrecht in Joint-Venture (50/50 joint venture)  is the general contractor for the central element of this development,  contracted with Miami-Dade County under an at-risk contract of more than  $1.1 billion. The work by Odebrecht entails 1.8 million square feet of  new terminal and concourse construction, integrated into an additional  1.5 million square feet of terminal renovation and remodeling at  the existing operational facility.

The North Terminal, more than 1  mile in length, is one of the largest and more complex expansions of an  existing airport in the United States, with the magnitude of the  development roughly equating to building a new mid-sized airport within  a fully operating facility. Highlights of the development include 50 new  passenger gates; a new Federal Inspection Services (FIS) facility; 123  ticket counter positions; 119 self-service ticketing kiosks; 72 FIS  passenger booth-processing-positions capable of processing 3,600  international visitors per hour; a state-of-the-art baggage handling  system capable of handling 45,000 bags per day; nearly 2 miles of  escalators and moving walkways; a four-station elevated automated  people mover system (the Skytrain) running along the roof of the new  terminal; a wide array of concessions, offices, facility support, and  customer services areas.

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Initial and Final Construction Cost, including Change Orders
Initial Contract Amount: $1,045,501,216
Final Contract Amount including Change Orders: $1,113,501,216
Type  of Contract and the Stage of Design or Construction that the  construction contract was agreed upon: Initially, this contract started  as Construction Management at Risk contract with fixed fees for staff,  home office overhead and profit and the Owner budgeted direct cost
allowance  and general conditions. Preconstruction services were also provided  under this contract structure. Odebrecht also inherited some unfinished  projects that were completed under a GMP structure called “Annex”. The  direct cost on these GMPs was established through a publicly bid process  jointly with the Owner.

Before construction started in March  2007, the contract was converted to a lump sum hybrid general contractor  and construction management services, where the Owner identified  Odebrecht as the Managing General Contractor. This resulted in the  largest general contractor contract issued by any government entity in  the state of Florida.

In June 2005, the original contract  included ten different design projects, in which only three projects  were ready for construction and the remaining seven the construction  documents were between 50% to 75% complete. During preconstruction  services, the owner requested that constructability reviews were  performed in all ten design projects but only eight projects were  actually built. Throughout the entire course of the North Terminal  Development Program, there were over twenty design projects ranging from  $200 thousand to over $90 million added by the owner.​

Dates services were performed for the project:
Preconstruction Services – August 2005 to March 2007
Completion Projects – August 2005 to March 2007
Construction – March 2007 – July 2012 (forecasted completion date)