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February 6, 2003

Sea-Tac Airport project anything but plain

  • Expanding the South Terminal has required some tricky engineering and construction feats.
    • By JOE NABBEFELD
    Journal Real Estate Editor

    glass curtainwall
    Rendering courtesy of NBBJ
    Sea-Tac's new South Hall features a 70-foot-tall glass curtainwall facing Mount Rainier and six 25-ton boulders to help create a Northwest look. Getting the rocks in required temporarily bracing a path in the floor for forklifts to carry the load.

    Expanding Sea-Tac International Airport's South Terminal has involved at least four "holy-cow" engineering and construction feats:


     
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