ENR Texas & Southeast
Vince Kong
09 Feb 2026
Before dawn at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, the Central Processor rises in pieces—steel climbing over the old terminal footprint while the skyway glides overhead and the underground Inter‑Terminal Train (ITT) hums below. Part of United Airlines’ $2.55-billion Terminal B transformation, the new processor is taking shape at one of the country’s more constrained construction zones—a site that has already logged more than 2.4 million work hours as of late January.
Clark Construction crews work in tight windows between active roadways and rail systems, preparing another lift on the new security hall. The 180‑ton truss they set earlier this year—hoisted by two 1,100‑ton cranes working in tandem on opposite sides of the site—now frames the roofline that will guide passengers toward the screening area.
A few hundred yards away, Manhattan Construction advances the new Terminal B North concourse at a similar pace. Crews place more than 1.6 million sq ft of replacement apron paving, trench nearly 20,000 linear ft of jet‑fuel lines and erect steel for the 765,000‑sq‑ft concourse in 44 sequences. PGAL designers walk the site with Manhattan superintendents, checking drawings against the structure as it rises, level by level...
United’s Terminal B: The New Gateway to Houston | Engineering News-Record - 09 Feb 2026
