Parking Structures: 1000+ Cars
(co-winner)

Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport–CONRAC Garage

San Jose, Calif.

The nation’s first on-site integrated car rental and quick-turn-around (QTA) operations facility, this airport parking structure utilized double-tee precast design to shave more than five months off the construction schedule. Combining an eight-story, 3000-car rental-car parking area and a four-story QTA area including refueling stations and car washes, the facility puts rental cars within walking distance of the terminals. Precast components include double tees, L beams, inverted-tee beams, transfer girders, rectangular collector beams, columns and spandrels. To match the curved shape of the structure’s north end, both the shear walls and double tees in that area were curved, with the tees cast in pie-shaped wedges. Precast concrete spandrels serve as car-impact shields as well as a base skin for metal mesh and artwork murals. Precast was key to reducing first costs and construction time, handling seismic loads, providing a flexible design to enable post-applied architectural treatments, and allowing for easier construction on the congested site.

Owner: City of San Jose Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Airport Department

Architect: Fentress Architects, San Jose, Calif.
Website: www.fentressarchitects.com

Architect: TransSystems, Phoenix, Ariz.
Website: www.transystems.com

Engineer: TranSystems, Phoenix, Ariz.
Website: www.transystems.com

Engineer: Watry Design, Redwood CIty, Calif.
Website: www.watrydesign.com

Contractor: Hensel Phelps, San Jose, Calif.
Website: www.henselphelps.com

Precaster: Clark Pacific, West Sacramento, Calif.
Website: www.clarkpacific.com

PSE: Clark Pacific, West Sacramento, Calif.
Website: www.clarkpacific.com

Area: 1,800,000 ft²
Number of stories: 8
Structural system: Hybrid
Components:
3,817 precast concrete components (32,600 yd³), including precast structural system with double tees, L beams, inverted-tee beams, transfer girders, rectangular collector beams, columns and spandrels. Total consists of 2,336 double tees (including radius double tees) with typical size 12×60 ft and depths from 26 in. to 32 in.; 644 rectangular beams; 154 L beams; 84 inverted T beams; four transfer girders; 204 columns (largest 77 ft); 212 36-ft prestressed spandrels; and 212 special collector beams.