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Originally Posted by J_M_Tungsten
What’s the point of having 2 teams design 2 different parts of the project? Would 1 firm be able to make a more functional plan for both?
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When you get into projects of this size even relatively large firms can't handle the whole thing alone. You'll might have one firm designing the airside taxiways/runways, one firm handling the exterior design of the terminal buildings including the utilities and security measures, and then another only doing the interior design and commercial space layout. Each of these is a massive, multi-million dollar project in and of themselves with highly specialized engineering requirements, so it's very common to subcontract/joint-bid certain sections out if your firm isn't one of the 2-3 in the world capable of doing something like this completely in-house (and even if you are, it's often cheaper to do that anyway).