📋 Tender Overview
This project replaces the 1948 terminal that is beyond its useful life, capacity, and is non-conforming with design standards. This project supports vertical construction of terminal, offering opportunities to strengthen climate resilience, promote energy efficiency, and create good paying jobs. This phase includes preparation and construction of the terminal foundation.
Amount Awarded: $10,800,000
The total cost of the project is estimated at $770 million.
The new terminal is expected to open in 20-27. The plan calls for a three-phase project to break up costs and allow the first phase of work to fit current available funding while still addressing increased capacity needs.
That first phase would include the construction of a new terminal with five gates, plus a central energy plant, offices and a pedestrian bridge to the parking garage. It would also include additional airside and landside infrastructure improvements, for a total estimated cost of $411.4 million.
The plans then call for a northward expansion adding four gates to the concourse at an estimated cost of $87.8 million, and a southward expansion adding eight gates. That final phase would also include demolition of the current terminal, with a total cost estimated at $233.9 million.
Work is not expected to break ground until 2024 at the earliest. If it does, planning documents indicate the first portion could be completed in 2026 and all three phases by early 2030.
The airport has also developed a concept for another possible phase of work to further expand the terminal concourse up to 22 gates as its ultimate buildout.
The airport has been working with Anser Advisory LLC to act as the owner’s representative on the project. In April, the Des Moines Airport Authority board of directors awarded a design services contract to Kansas City, Mo.-based HNTB Corp.
