b'44 COU TERMINALSFACTS&FIGURES Project: New TerminalLocation: Columbia (MO) Regional AirportSize: 52,000 sq. ft.Cost: $23 millionFunding: $10.8 million CARES Act grant; $12.2 million bond funds from lodging tax & passenger facility chargesConstruction: Nov. 2020Oct. 2022Features: Large meeter-greeter lobby; vending machines & space for future restaurant; automated baggage handling system; sensory room; family restrooms & mothers rooms; service animal relief area; art & history displays; 4 passenger gates with boarding bridges; seating with device charging; asphalt surface parking lot; covered curbside New Terminal BringsOwners Rep Services, Program Management & Development, Environmental, Commissioning: Burns & McDonnellColumbia Regional Up to DateOwners Rep Team: Burns & McDonnell; Wellner Architects; Engineering Surveys & Services; CustomBY KRISTEN RINDFLEISCHEngineering; RDM International Passengers and staff alike areadded one restroom to serve the entire Design-Build Contractor: Nabholz Constructionenjoying a completely differentsecure-side area. Prime Architect: RS&Hexperience at Columbia RegionalThe $23 million terminal project was Paving & Earthwork: Emery Sapp & Sons Airport (COU). The new terminal thatfunded through multiple sources: $10.8 HVAC & Plumbing: QuesTec Mechanicalopened last fall provides significantly moremillion from a CARES Act grant and $12.2 Electrical: Meyer Electric space as well as updated amenities andmillion of bond funds from lodging tax and inclusive features previously lacking at thepassenger facility charges. Seating: Arconas Missouri airport. Passenger Boarding Bridges: ThyssenKrupp AirportThe city-owned airport currently has Solutions The new 52,000-square-foot facilityfive or six daily departures, but the project Automated Baggage Handling System: Innovativereplaced a terminal that was just 16,000team instructed its partners to design Handling square feet and built in 1968. Over thethe new terminal for future expansion. Carpet: Mohawk past several years, COU had simplyThe whole idea was outgrown its former terminal. In fact, themaking sure that we Epoxy Flooring: Key Resin airport had been using doublewide trailer Window Glazing: Vitro Architectural Glass houses procured from a school to createhad room not just for today but for decades Ceiling Systems: Armstrong makeshift passenger holdrooms. Theto come, says Airport Wallcoverings: MDC modular units, which were joined to theManager Mike Parks. Paint: Sherwin-Williams backside of the previous terminal building,The airport hired two had no bathrooms until 2013, when COUnew employees to Tile: Ceramic Technics MIKE PARKSJuly | August 2023AirportImprovement.com'