b'68 FFZRUNWAYSCrews used hand tools to reach difficult areas when paving the Anzio Ramp. to create a Construction Safety and Phasing Plan (CSPP) withStaffing Fluctuationsproposed schedules developed by the airport and Woolpert atThe year before construction began, several airport employees the time, but Banicki found adhering to that schedule difficultretired, including two key team members with more than 30 years when work moved into the implementation phase. The teamof experience each. To compensate, Banicki and an expanded adjusted by creating a new schedule based on actual conditionsteam from Woolpert assumed project responsibilities that would three weeks in advance. As a result, the phasing involved moretraditionally be performed by the airport, such as developing written closures than was initially envisioned when the project wasprocedures for shutting down runway lighting, escorting work designed and bid. crews and scheduling the closing and reopening of runways. We Another major change occurred during Phase Five ofhad to train people so they knew what to dothat was a learning construction, when the contractor realized crews needed to workcurve, says Gibbs. in the taxiway safety area of Taxiway D, just south of RunwayWith a total staff of 15 employees (10 administrators and five 4R-22L and connecting to taxiways D7 and D8, which were beingfor operations and maintenance), the airport needed to adapt relocated on Taxiway D, the parallel taxiway there. We had toquickly when part of its usual knowledge base was gone.revise the CSPP and work with the FAA to get approval for that, so we could follow the construction advisory circular to allow anA sure sign of success for Nystrom was positive feedback from open trench and excavation to take place in the safety area of thetenants, visiting pilots and control tower personnel. When youre taxiway while that taxiway is open, says Gibbs.changing something on the airfield, you always wonder how your tenants and users are going to respond to that. It was a good Permission was granted, with provisos about issuing extrathing, she reports. NOTAMS and making changes to the CSPP about barricades, lighting, signage and speed reductions on the taxiway. WeUpdating a Classicwere able to overcome that hurdle and move the project alongReconstructing the Anzio Ramp (named after a World War II battle successfully, Gibbs reports, noting that the project was alreadyin Italy) was another major airfield improvement. The ramp, which under construction.covers nearly a full acre on the south of the approach end of Overall, work lasted 250 days and required roughly 1,129 cubicRunway 22L along the east airfield boundary, had been in service yards of asphalt, which is about 2,200 tons. The new Taxiway Gfor 33 years without a major upgrade. The pavement had extensive and realigned taxiways D7 and D8 opened in July 2024.surface treatment in 2010, but that was the first substantial July | August 2025AirportImprovement.com'