Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

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Since 1976, Gibbs Construction has been the team behind the buildings where we all work and play, grow up, grow smart, and grow old. We're the hardhats you've seen on almost every campus, on every corner. The group behind the Superdome re-skin. The Smoothie King Arena. The Audubon Institute's Cool Zoo. The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. We work to ensure that every project we touch truly becomes part of the neighborhoods we love.

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

Budget: $1B
Size: 972,000 SF
Owner: City of New Orleans/ New Orleans Aviation Board
Architect: Crescent City Aviation Team
Delivery: CMAR

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New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport now serves the traveling public with a modern world-class terminal complex, ranking as one of the nation’s best large airports. Gibbs is honored to have served on our state’s first CMAR team, making history in the evolution of municipal projects.
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Gibbs Construction served as a member of the joint venture CMAR partnership of Hunt Gibbs Boh Metro for the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport New North Terminal. The highly anticipated transformation of the 60-year-old airport became the first municipal CMAR project in the State of Louisiana.

This new crescent-shaped, 35-gate airport terminal, approximately 1,000,000 square feet, spreads across 26 acres of reclaimed swampland.
The three concourse mega-structure is comprised of 12,000 tons of structural steel, 55,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 170,000 square feet of glass curtainwall.
The nearly $1 billion new terminal includes multiple tech-forward parking garages, surface parking lots, airline check-in counters and self-service kiosks.
Due to the poor existing soil conditions, the entire facility is supported by more than 10,000 precast concrete piles, driven to an average depth of 100 feet.
To mitigate settlement, the site was surcharged by hauling in 2 million cubic yards of nearby Mississippi River sand requiring the delivery of 460 to 600 truckloads six nights a week for nearly a year.
In addition to our CMAR joint venture role, Gibbs Construction provided services as a concrete subcontractor for the new north terminal. This $40.8 million scope of work included 361 concrete columns ranging from 33 to 71 feet tall, and 987,372 square feet of concrete slabs, requiring a total of 5,312 truckloads equaling 53,121 cubic yards of concrete.