b'BAGGAGESAN17Overcoming Sticker Shock Kessler provided them all with Project Lead Mikethe same stripped-down equipment spreadsheet of specifications: no specialFACTS&FIGURES Kessler, special systems seniorsauce, no proprietary tweaksjustProject: Baggage Handling System Upgradesmanager for Turnera price for exactly what was in frontLocation: San Diego Intl AirportConstruction, recallsof them. The goal was clarity, notTerminal: 1that members of hiscompetition. Project Scope: Install new TSA-compliantteam knew early onThe responseshandling systemthat the job at SANMIKE KESSLER were a shock.Approx. Cost: $95 millionwould be one of theKessler says hisFunding: Airport Authority bonds; passenger facility largest baggage-handling projects they hadpre-COVID braincharges; TSA reimbursement through an Other undertaken in years, and they would needwas thinking theTransaction Agreementreliable numbers before moving forward. project wouldCompletion Schedule: Phase 1, June 2025;come in aroundPhase 2, 2027But getting those numbers the usualConstruction: Turner Constructionway wasnt going to cut it. $105 million. GregGREG WHEELERWheeler, seniorSystem Design: IntrobaTraditionally, baggage companiesproject manager with Introba at the time,System Mechanicals: Vanderlande Industriesdont like to give ROMs [rough order ofhad warned that supply-chain impactsSystem Controls: Brock Solutionsmagnitude figures], Kessler explains.were pushing costs higher, and heArchitecture: GenslerStill, Turner needed an early cost picture.was right. All four companies returnedProgram Management: AECOM; ABMCSo, in January 2021, as design work wasestimates of $140 million. Key Components: In-line screening; RFID bag getting underway with Introba, the teamtracking; built-in redundancy for resilience; connects to reached out to four major companiesThe team now had a problemandSmart Curb check-in facility & main terminal ticketing; capable of handling a baggage handlinga decision to make. Turner leadershipbaggage tunnel; 6 outbound makeup units; 2 transfer system project of this size, includinghad asked Kessler whether it waslines; 9 inbound claim devices; Checked Baggage Vanderlande Industries. possible to pull 10% out of the cost.Inspection System equipped with seven explosives detection machines; full Checked Baggage Resolution Area AirportImprovement.comJanuary | February 2026'