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SMG to Provide Safety Management at Midfield Terminal Project
3/27/2003
 Safety Management Group will be working closely with Pillar Group and A.I. King Insurance to administer the risk management program for the Indianapolis Airport Authority. Work on the OMIP will begin in March and is slated to conclude in 2007. A staff of four to five safety personnel is anticipated for the project.
The OMIP Contract for the $1 Billion Midfield Terminal Project is a major step for SMG's quest of becoming a 'nationally recognized leader in safety'. The Midfield Terminal Project will be the second high profile City of Indianapolis Project that Safety Management Group has been involved in over the past five years (Conseco Fieldhouse).
Primary Construction Manager
Construction Managers for the Midfield Terminal Expansion were selected last October. Turner Construction was selected to serve as the Primary Construction Manager to oversee all airside and landside improvements (excluding the terminal and concourse facility) at the Indianapolis International Airport.
Teamed with Associate Project Managers Trotter Construction Company and Shiel Sexton Company, Turner will lead the charge on the apron and runway paving (with lighting, fueling and deicing systems) roads and interchange work, parking garage and combined rental car facility, central utility plant, administration building, support buildings (i.e. fire station, maintenance facilities, etc), all site utilities and infrastructure. Site mobilization will begin spring of 2003.
Midfield Expansion Project Quick Facts:
' The current expansion of Indianapolis International Airport is one the highest, if not the highest, impact projects currently taking place in the city.
' Airport traffic is growing at an average of 8% globally.
' Indianapolis averaged around 3% growth over the past 20 years. This is one of the primary figures used to diagnose terminal needs.
' The midfield terminal concept actually was introduced as part of a 1975 plan for the airport and it has taken this long to actualize the project. The city really began to focus on the idea of a midfield terminal late in the Goldsmith administration.
' Project planners have attempted to use as many local resources as possible. Instead of hiring a large firm to oversee all aspects of the project, individuals viewed as the best in their respective fields have been retained.
' The essence of the project revolved around cost, based on the number of projected passengers in 2010, 2020 and beyond.
' New aircraft on the market, the A-380 Airbus (size 80 X 80 m), built to accommodate a much greater passenger load per flight. Because not many other airports can accommodate these new aircraft at present, available access for these planes in Indianapolis could turn the city into a 'super port,' where smaller planes from surrounding states come to Indianapolis in order to board these Airbuses for longer flights.
' The midfield terminal project should take about 7 years to complete with a cost of $800-900 million. This bill will be paid by airlines, NOT tax dollars.
' New Airport tower will be 330 ft. tall. The current tower is 136 ft. tall. By comparison, Cincinnati's is 257 ft. tall. It must be 330 ft. in order for a planned future 3rd runway to be visible from the tower.
' Current parking is available for about 10,500. Midfield will allow for 15,000.
' Existing terminal is 720,000 sq. ft. Midfield will be about 1 million sq. ft.
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