Zachry Construction just picked up the subcontract for San Antonio International Airport's Terminal C Curbside Roadway Improvements, working under construction manager at-risk Hensel Phelps.
The award came down June 4, and the job is exactly what it sounds like: tearing out and rebuilding roadways and bridges to get people to the new terminal without a fight.
Work kicks off next month, with completion rolling out in phases through the second half of 2028.
The Numbers Doing the Heavy Lifting
This isn't a repaving job. Zachry's scope includes:
3,300+ cubic yards of concrete
800,000+ pounds of reinforcing steel
6,300 linear feet of precast bridge beams
That's an elevated roadway built essentially from scratch, with precast caps used at select spots to keep the schedule tight inside an airport that never really shuts down for anybody.
A Bypass Lane for Terminal C
The whole point is traffic flow. Once finished, Terminal C departure traffic gets its own dedicated path, skipping Terminals A and B entirely and cutting down on curbside conflicts across the system.
The work also covers widening the existing elevated curbside roadway, reconfiguring Terminal Drive, and modifying the U.S. 281 connection bridge to match the new layout.
"Our experience in heavy civil construction and aviation infrastructure is critical to delivering a system that will serve the airport reliably for decades," said Travis Mross, president of Zachry Construction.
Zachry's no stranger to SAT, having handled apron paving on Terminal C and recently wrapped up the South RON project, which added seven overnight aircraft parking spots near Terminal A.
Two more years of phased construction at an airport that's staying open the whole time. That's the real feat here, not the concrete.
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