Airport Baggage Handling System Replacement
A baggage handling system replaced across three terminals, zone by zone, while every flight still gets its bags.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. West
- Market
- Aviation
- Capital value
- $410M
- Size
- 3 terminals · inline screening
- Delivery
- CM at-risk
- Duration
- 36 months
- Status
- In progress · 2027
What is at stake.
Old and new conveyors must run side by side during each cutover, and inline screening equipment must be certified before any zone goes live. Each cutover happens overnight with a fallback plan. The airport needs one schedule that ties construction, controls software, screening certification and airline operations together.
How we control it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers are doing on this project.
Zone cutovers
Each zone has its own cutover plan in P6, with construction, testing, certification and fallback activities linked.
Controls software
Software releases and integrated testing are scheduled as critical work, not as an afterthought to steel and conveyors.
Recovery when needed
When a screening certification slipped, we resequenced two zones and protected the overall finish.
Airline reporting
Airlines receive a monthly view of upcoming cutovers and what they mean for their operations.
Where it stands.
A baggage system is software with conveyors attached. We schedule the software like it is on the critical path, because it is.
Senior scheduler, AdenTurton
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