AECOM gets clearance for next project at O’Hare

AECOM has been cleared for takeoff for the next leg of its work on O’Hare International Airport’s massive modernization program.

The engineering firm secured a building permit for a four-story, 1,500-square-foot structure on the airfield that will house a dispatch center for de-icing operations. The project is expected to cost $9 million.

F.H. Paschen S.N. Nielsen & Associates is the general contractor.

AECOM is the program manager for the modernization program at the airport, a years-long, multibillion-dollar undertaking to reconfigure the runway layout, add new runways, construct a new air-traffic-control tower and update other maintenance and support facilities.

The city recently announced yet another phase in the ongoing overhaul of O’Hare, an eight-year, $8.5 billion project to add gates and concources and reconfigure the terminals.