Photo by Vu Quang Tran, courtesy Turner Construction and STV/Satterfield & Pontikes Construction

Delta Air Lines LGA Airfield Reconfiguration Program

East Elmhurst, N.Y.

Airport/Transit

Submitted by: Turner Construction and STV/Satterfield & Pontikes Construction

Region: ENR East

Owner: Delta Air Lines

Design: Gensler and Corgan

Construction Managers: Turner Construction, STV/Satterfield & Pontikes Construction JV; Group PMX

Design, Structural and MEP Engineer: Arup

Design, Civil, Structural and MEP Engineer: Burns & McDonnell

The Delta Air Lines airfield reconfiguration program at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, part of a larger Port Authority of New York and New Jersey improvement program, replaced aging Terminals C and D with a re-imagined Terminal C. It cost about $4 billion for a new headhouse, concourses, taxi lanes, bridgework and roadway deck.

With the phased opening of the light-filled terminal and its soaring ceilings, travel journalists had lavish praise.…