Here are some pictures from the PANYNJ Flickr page with recent progress from late May. T1 is a beast.
T6 is making good progress as well, with glass installation on the headhouse well underway.
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Free drop-off at Lefferts Boulevard for automobile-arriving flyers, but anyone using transit at Howard Beach station (which is only about 200 feet away) must pay $9 to use AirTrain.
Nine dollars to ride a distance that is less than the length of a football field makes this the most expensive transit ride in North America.
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Some updates from the main terminal developments. Lots of working happening at T1’s departures curb/roadway slab, pictured below. The building certainly has quite a presence from this angle.
The second photo details work on the first spans of the departures bridge linking the curb to the terminal.
Over at T6, the front curtain wall is already done!
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Should be free, but better than the ridiculous amount they charge now.
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Great news, if only it were permanent.
In other news, Cathay Pacific is moving from T8 to T6 and opening their own 10,000 sq ft lounge, a very interesting move which seems to end future hopes of Oneworld consolidation. Also concerning airline updates, SAS will be staying in T1.
Also the T4 phase 2.5 project seems to have largely come to a close with the opening of the swanky 40,000 sq ft Delta One lounge. It looks like there’s only a bit of work left to be done, including a dedicated Delta One security checkpoint. Beyond that, I’ve recently seen documentation restating that phase 3 will begin next year, with a phase 4 expected in the early 2030s, though I don’t have further details on those scopes yet.
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Snazzy T1 welcome plaza render from tmrw.inc:
Work on T6 progresses, with assembly of the 80 foot main oculus skylight coming along and the installation of the clerestory windows reaching completion:
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Not sure if these were posted here but the JFK New T1 site has a bunch of renderings on the home page. Some of them were shared here, but I don’t recall seeing the ones I posted here. The terminal is going to be a fantastic asset to this airport.
Artists were also selected for T6 art installations.
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Went to JFK today, this time remembering to post my photos!
T1 continues to progress, with more work on the roadway. Looks like they’re starting to prepare the overhang to be clad, and around back they have some aluminum panels up, though I didn’t get a pic.
T6 is also progressing, with noticeable work on the roadways as well as the rerouted T5 exit road. Got some great views from the Airtrain bridge, I didn’t realize you can actually see inside to the future path toward the departures hall! Looks like one of those concrete structures is corroding? If anyone can explain that I’d be very interested to know what’s going on there.
In general, I think for both terminals a lot of work has moved airside/toward interior systems. I’d guess by end of year cladding on the land side will start to wrap and progress may become a bit less visible.
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Concrete doesn’t necessarily corrode more so than the rebar inside of it does causing chunks of the concrete to come loose and crack off, but that doesn’t appear to be what is happening here since the rebar would not have corroded quickly enough for this to happen (this process takes a while to happen). This also doesn’t look like it would happen since epoxy covered rebar was used in this application, which prevents it from rusting and then corroding.
This looks like it could be one of two things:
The concrete was either not vibrated enough to ensure that it filled all spaces/voids within the formwork leaving air pockets, the mixture/composition of the concrete is also a factor in this occuring
or
Something happened after the fact that needed the concrete to be broken up in those areas, though the former seems to be the more likely case in this instance.
Thanks to everyone providing these update pictures all the time, I love seeing construction photos of this!
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In one of your images of T6 you can even see glass being installed on one of the round skylights. Lots of incredible progress going on at JFK.
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Ah, thank you for the insight! Will they need to repair the structure before the steel can be placed on top?
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Oh yeah you’re right, it’s hard to say but it looks like they might be using glass mullions in the skylight as well, a nice little nod to the original T6’s famous headhouse
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