b'20 BNA TERMINALSthe construction schedule. The steel beamswe detailed and designed how that walkway comes over to meet were heavier and slightly more costly butthe rampand in a way that made it easy for the contractor to also more readily available. The design-buildmake those two systems meet up together out in the field.approachbeing integrated with [Holder]The shuttle station at Concourse C also required a creative early on in the designreally helped usdesign. The design team was tasked with managing pedestrian tailor the product to the supply chain issuesflow and shuttle turnaround within the confines of a space that and helped them deliver the constructionpreviously housed a single aircraft gate. The station had to schedule at the pace that we needed to,ANDREW DIAL be built, and subsequently operate, directly adjacent to active explains Andrew Dial, structural engineer withaircraft. Designers connected the shuttle station to the main Gresham Smith.terminal with an overhead pedestrian bridge. The bridge is at the With airfield on all four sides of the Satellite Concourse, buildingsame level of the concourse for passenger convenience, while pavements within FAA slope tolerances was another notableshuttles circulate beneath. At the ground-level station, arriving challenge. Garver used an iterative process to select an elevationpassengers unload on one side and departing passengers board for the building that required the least amount of demolition andon the other to minimize congestion. reconstruction.Compared to the engineering and construction challenges, Creating the curbless curbside entry to the precast ramplogistics regarding delivery of the shuttles from Europe seemed required engineering finesse in and of itself. It also requiredminor. The vehicles were transported to Charleston, SC, via boat collaboration among various teams to provide adequate clearanceand then trucked to the airport in Nashvilleabout a five-week for shuttles to travel under the pedestrian walkway, which is atjourney in total. BNA received delivery of the shuttles in mid-the same level as the main concourse, at the shuttle station inSeptember 2023 so drivers could learn charging procedures Concourse C. Obviously, those are different buildings from aand begin practicing their routes before the Satellite Concourse structural perspective, says Dial. So, we had to make sure thatopened that October.IDSPIDS.COM NEW GRAND TERMINAL LOBBY AT NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTMAKING GREAT MUSICTOGETHER SINCE 1996INTERNATIONALDISPLAY SYSTEMS, INC.May | June 2024AirportImprovement.com'