b'AIRFIELD SAFETYTUS 47and various funding sources that are involved. We didnt go intobusiness jets and cargo planes. It really takes this airport into the this without a really good plan, she advises. And just like wefuture for decades, adds Bewley.planned for various elements of the Airfield Safety EnhancementAs projects continue, losing the smaller parallel runway Program, we also planned how we would manage it through a11R-29L meant working with the general aviation community to number of consultants that are excellent in their field, and howuse the TAAs other reliever airport Ryan Airfield (RYN) to minimize we would fund it.To date, the TAA has leveraged TAA financialdelays.In fact, one aspect of the project was for the TAA to resources to fund the Program, offset by grant reimbursements. relocate a flight school from TUS to RYN. As much as you think One important logistic plan was coordinating with TSA andyou are communicating and coordinating, you have to do even installing a fence that placed the project site outside of the Airmore, because there are so many moving pieces and so many Operations Area (AOA). At any given time, there can be up toplayers involved in different phases and layers. hundreds of crewmembers working, so badging and controlling access to the site would have added more challenges and slowed down the progress, Bewley explains. About five miles of temporary security fencing was installed to separate the project site from the AOA. Work inside that fence is coordinated carefully with Airside Operations personnel and the air traffic control tower. Program phasing relied heavily on the sequence of funding TAA secured for the project, notes WSP Project Manager Sterling Stewart. The TAA received several grants that allowed us to moveSTERLING STEWART forward to a certain point.If you have a GMP contractor out there, your worst nightmare is to get to the point where they run out of work, and you have no funding to move to the next phase. Then, we must pay to bring him back, Stewart relates. Its challenging.Some of the transactions for land acquisition have been slower than anticipatedAviationbecause they include aspects that are out of the TAAs control. As a result, the project team relied on using dirt from the new parcel, butConsultantswhen the transaction did not match up to the dirt need, the TAA had to find an alternate source of dirt. As funny as that sounds, it adds cost where we are trying to be efficientPlanning for aviation growth, now and in and effective, says Bewley. the future, is paramount. Solid experience Although the main goals of the Airfield Safety Enhancement Program are improvingpaired with a comprehensive set of aviation safety and conforming to current aircraftservices sets our aviation team apart.separation standards, increasing capacity will be an added benefit. The program provides the airport much-needed flexibility to serve a mix of traffic that ranges from fighter jets and commercial airlines to small general aviation aircraft, meadhunt.com . experience exceptional.AirportImprovement.comOctober 2024'