The $59-million Kodiak Airport project extended two runway safety areas 600 ft into the Gulf of Alaska by constructing an adjacent rock revetment, new service roads and taxiway, and by installing material arresting systems.
Before T.F. Green Airport completed its more efficient stormwater and deicer management system to meet state environmental management requirements in May 2015, the airport collected deicer runoff manually.
The city is experiencing a construction bonanza, with a number of big-ticket projects either just completed, getting underway or entering the final planning stages.
The U.K. government on Oct. 25 approved a controversial $22-billion plan to build a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport, 45 kilometers west of the city.
Despite the continuing uncertainty regarding a long-term federal aviation bill, airport construction programs, especially at the large hubs, are resurging in the U.S.