Airports

 

City of San Antonio Airport Wayfinding Signage Design Services, San Antonio, Texas
This project consisted of design and construction phase services for vehicular and pedestrian wayfinding signage for the San Antonio Airport. Signage included reuse of existing structures and installation of two to three new overhead signage structures. Terminal signage and "You are Here" signage was replaced in the short-term parking garage. Smaller signage along the road was elevated for replacement, relocation or removal. This project was fast-tracked to be only a 90-day design period and the project constructed within one year.

Houston Airport System New Parking Garage at Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas
Klotz Associates is part of a team with Walker Parking Consultants, Inc. that won the pre-design for a new 2,500 space parking garage at Hobby Airport.  This project will explore the opportunities of placing a new 2,500 space parking garage in the existing Ecopark surface parking area to the west of the existing garage.  The new garage will interface with the existing parking facility while enhancing the parking and pedestrian environment.  The pre-design phase will look at different alternatives for parking configuration and pedestrian movement.  The next phase will include final design including structural, civil and traffic/security design.  

Montgomery County Lone Star Executive Airport in Conroe, Texas

The runway extension project at Lone Star Executive Airport has been awarded to Klotz Associates, Inc.  The airport is located in Montgomery County just out of Conroe.  The project consists of a 1,500-foot extension of the airport’s main runway. This extension will allow more aircraft to use the runway, especially in bad weather and wet conditions.  Along with the runway extension are many appurtenance improvements such as grading, airfield lighting, FAA equipment relocation, and adjacent pavement reconstruction.  The total construction cost is currently projected to be over $13 million and will take the next 3 years to design and construct.

TxDOT Aviation, Georgetown Municipal Airport - Engineering /Design Services, Georgetown, Texas

Klotz Associates Austin Office has been selected by the Aviation Division of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the City of Georgetown to perform Engineering / Design Services for a project at Georgetown Municipal Airport. The airport is considered to be an extremely important reliever facility within the Central Texas airport system. The project will include improving the Runway Safety Areas, rehabilitating the corporate taxiway and hangar access aprons, widening a taxilane and installing obstruction lighting. Estimated construction cost is $2 million.

Houston Airport System, George Bush Intercontinental Airport – Terminal B and C North Ramp Extension, Houston, Texas
This project included aircraft pavement design, geometric layout, grading, and pavement markings for pavement expansion adjacent to Terminals ‘B’ and ‘C’ at IAH.  Designs and phasing plans were also considerate of detailed construction sequencing associated with work areas within the terminal apron.  Project expanded Taxiway ‘WC’ at the fuel triangle and taxiway fillet expansion at Taxiways ‘WB’, ‘WC’, and ‘WE’.  Project also included paving the infield areas at Taxiway ‘NB’, ‘NO’, and ‘NK’ at the edge of the north apron.  The project also added asphalt shoulders at five infield islands.  HVJ Associates was a team member for this project, performing the geotechnical investigation.  Grading design for the project included six infield islands plus new pavement extended from the north apron at Terminal C.  Services during design included a full range of engineering design services including preparation of project plans, specifications, and estimates.  Construction sequencing included details to minimize disruption to airport operations so that no terminal gates needed to be closed during construction

Houston Airport System, George Bush Intercontinental Airport - Rehabilitation of Runway 15L-33R, Houston, Texas

The scope of this ongoing project includes design of concrete pavement replacement on 3,000 feet of runway as well as the bonded concrete overlay of 5,000 feet of existing concrete runway and connecting taxiways. Klotz Associates performed an analysis to determine the need for concrete overlay by using non-destructive pavement analysis and finite-element computation of pavement performance under anticipated aircraft traffic. This allowed determination of required pavement thicknesses and further crack-propagation analysis for confirmation of overlay thickness to ensure against pavement shoving. During design of the pavement overlay, the firm determined that additional requirements must be specified for installation of the overlay to ensure a full bonding of the overlay to the existing pavement.

Scholes International Airport, Galveston, Texas
For this project Klotz Associates strengthened the taxiway parallel to the primary north-south runway, which needed improvements to the GA apron areas. Also, the taxiways to the T-hangars were in need of replacement. The firm completed an investigation of the 40-to-50-year-old pavement on the taxiway and executed design for its total rehabilitation. Klotz Associates also developed construction plans, which included overlay and slurry seal of all GA pavement areas. VASI on Runway 17 was replaced with PAPI-4. Work on the project also included various signage improvements and development of a detailed construction phasing plan that would not shut down FBO (fixed-base operation) or GA operations. Klotz Associates also prepared the scope of work for surveying and for geotechnical services and secured fee proposals for it. The firm also prepared a fee proposal for all services and submitted it for review.