Metro Airport first to build terminals post 9/11, wins Build Michigan Award

It turns out 9-11 wasn't entirely negative for Metro Airport. It helped the budding Aerotropolis and the firms that reshaped it in the last decade win a Build Michigan Award.

Metro Airport's two new terminals (McNamara and North) came online post 9-11, making them more readily able to handle the security changes made necessary since then. Pulling such a feat off is always much easier said than done, but far from impossible.

"These buildings were conceived before 9-11," says Janet Cohen, director of corporate communications for Barton Malow, which shared the award with fellow contractor Walbridge and architects Gensler and Ghafari. "After 9-11, without an actual budget increase and new demand for increased security, we met the original budget."

That team work is primarily why Metro Airport and the crews behind its recent recreation received the Build Michigan Award. Other projects that won include the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, Henry Ford Health System West Pavilion Vertical Expansion in Detroit, and the Gratiot Woods Co-op Apartments, which is also in Detroit.

Source: Janet Cohen, director of corporate communications for Barton Malow
Writer: Jon Zemke

Metro Airport first to build terminals post 9/11, wins Build Michigan Award

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