b'64 RVS TAXIWAYSFACTS&FIGURESTulsa Riverside Project: Taxiway Realignment Location: Tulsa Riverside Airport, in OK Realigns Taxiways BY PAUL NOLANAncillary Work: LED taxiway lights & signage; new direct access control markings; removed section of pavement & replaced with sod Building the plane while flyingaviation airfield in northeast Oklahoma. To Total Cost: $7.6 million it is a colorful sentiment thatminimize disruptions for RVS tenants and Funding: $6.85 million FAA grant; $381,000 OK Dept. ofdescribes creating a plan whileusers, the project team devised a detailed Aerospace & Aeronautics grant; $423,928 Tulsa Airportsa project is already underway, or startingproject strategythe exact opposite of Improvement Trust grant a complicated new endeavor in the midstbuilding a plane while flying it.Construction: Spring 2023 & spring 2024 of another. Pilots are thankful it is strictly a Engineering Consultant: Olsson metaphor, but airport managers arent soPlanning ahead goes a long way, says Wheeler. Knowing what the game Airfield Paving, Lighting, Drainage,lucky. They often need to build or renovateplan is and communicating that to our Geotechnical, Construction Materials while also keeping their existing facilitiestenants and users really made things go Testing: Olsson operational.smoothly.Airport Master Plan Consultant: RS&H Austin Wheeler, Prime Contractor: APAC-Central Inc. The team scheduled the airfield work in manager of Tulsatwo phases, and each was broken into five Airfield Lighting & Signing: Libra Electric Riverside Airportsub-phases. We planned ahead to get as Lighting Supplier: Airport Lighting Systems Inc. (RVS), knows thatmuch work as possible completed outside Safety & Phasing Devices; Pavement feeling well. Heof the runway safety area, Wheeler Markings: Advanced Workzone Systems recently oversawexplains. When we did need to get inside Sodding & Erosion Control: Verdigris Valley the realignment,the runway safety area, we had everything Sod Farms reconstruction andAUSTIN WHEELER ready to go; so we kept runways closed Geotextile Supplier: Brownco Mfg. & Sales rehabilitation of fourfor a minimum amount of time.connector taxiways at the busy general ALCMS Update: ADB SAFEGATEOctober 2024AirportImprovement.com'