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New Entrance Road Coming to Akron-Canton Airport By Irwin Rapoport CEG CorrEspondEnt
the Akron-Canton Airport’s $11.6 million Entrance road reconstruction project, was awarded to northstar Asphalt Inc. the project included the reconstruction of the entrance road to the airport terminal, reconfigured and improved short and long-term parking lots, a new rental car lot and the final phase — a new covered parking area, which is ongoing now. new entrance and exit plazas were constructed by the st. Clair/paulis Group. the work started in the summer of 2015. “A main goal was to give passengers more time to determine where they needed to go — whether it is long-term parking, short-term parking or the terminal to drop off someone” said rick McQueen, president and CEo of the airport. “We also needed to add commercial lanes in front of the terminal to reduce congestion during peak times. Another important part of the project was to add a new rental car lot that is larger than the existing lot. this will free up space for a future terminal expansion.” the airport, which was built 70 years ago, served 1.5 million passengers in 2015. While the road project was being built, an expansion and renovation of the ticket concourse also was under construction. this project was completed in May and was constructed by Cavanaugh Building Corp., Abbot Electric, Imperial Mechanical, and s.A. Comunale Co. the airport is planning a major terminal gate replacement project that is expected to start in mid2017.
The Akron-Canton Airport’s $11.6 million Entrance Road reconstruction project, was awarded to Northstar Asphalt Inc.
the tender process for the contract has not begun yet as the planning is still ongoing. the road project included energy efficient LEd lighting and increased the number of parking spots. the covered parking lot will serve 240 cars. the project was designed by Hammontree & Associates. “there have not been any design issues,” said McQueen. “It was well thought out and planned in conjunction with how it would work with everything else that is being planned for the airport’s expansion and future needs. the goal is to improve customer serv-
ice and convenience. the project is going according to plan and schedule.” Major construction at an airport is never easy in terms of traffic. The work started in the summer of 2015. “We’ve done as much as we can to alleviate any of ward construction project, there the issues with congestion from the have still been challenges. “the work started with earthconstruction,” said McQueen. “We have a lot of temporary sig- work and a lot of demolition. Most nage to help guide passengers and of the storm drainage was replaced, along with some sanitary those visiting the airport.” Bryan shaw, the general manag- sewers and waterlines. the project er of northstar, a division of the included water quality structures as Wenger Companies, said that part of the drainage systems, where while this has been a straightfor- surface water runoff is treated in
huge sand filters, was quite a bit of work and quite involved. “We had to do all of that before we ever moved on to the surface work — curbing, asphalt paving, etc.,” he said. “What made it really difficult was maintaining access to the terminal. We had to provide adequate parking and pedestrian access to the front of the terminal, including two primary access points. the project was divided into five phases and 31 sub-phases and it was jig-saw puzzle from the start.” the hard work by northstar has paid off as it is two-and-a-half months ahead of schedule on the site development work. the covering for the parking is being installed by Fabristructure, a specialty subcontractor. shaw credits the preplanning for the early completion of the site development work. “It was a pretty comprehensive set of plans and we familiarized ourselves with them as best we could with the intentions of phasing the work,” he said. “We also found some better ways to proceed to be more efficient. At times we were able to combine some phases and still maintain access requirements that the airport had. We partnered well with the airport and the engineer — they were very accommodating with us.” shaw realized that his project would have an impact on a terminal expansion project that was ongoing at the time. “We coordinated with the other contractor who was working right see NORTHSTAR page 2