Accommodating 183 flights per day on 13 domestic and international carriers in 2004—as well as 240 million pounds of air cargo—San Jose International Airport is considered the gateway to California’s Silicon Valley. A projected growth in passengers from 11.1 million annually in 2004 to 17.6 million by 2017 has necessitated large-scale expansion of and improvements to the airport’s capacity and operations. In response, the City of San Jose developed a multi-year, $2.8 billion master plan improvement program. However, due to local and airline conditions in the post-9/11 economic climate, this plan was revamped as a $1.5 billion program beginning in July 2006.

Partnering with the City of San Jose, PB is providing program management, terminal and conceptual planning, airfield design, and construction management services for the master plan improvement program. The original effort featured more than eight years of construction; the revised program is construction-intense for the first five years, with facilities coming on line as needed from 2011 to 2017. The PB team has overcome the difficult challenge of performing the necessary upgrades, relocations and construction without disrupting the level of service to airport patrons. PB's services began in 1998 and are scheduled to continue through December 2006.