Aviation View | Volume 2, Issue 1

126 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 technical and insightful ideas always keep us on our toes.” There was only one time during the project when the airport had to be closed and, even then, work was completed faster than expected. “We originally thought we would have to close the airport for six weeks to reconstruct the runways intersection,” says Brewer. “Atkins got that six weeks down to 14 days and then Frank Thomas, the airport’s construction manager, pushed the contractors so the work was completed in just 10 days and we were able to reopen the airport. We discussed when this should take place with all of our tenants and discovered that a lot of corporate aircraft were down for maintenance in July, so that is when we closed the airport and completed the work.” James D Morrissey was the prime contractor for Global Electric, which did all the electric work for phases two and three of the runway project.