KHA - Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. services

Effective airside design is key to the operational efficiency, safety management, and regulatory compliance of your airport. As the aviation industry experiences a rapid increase in passenger traffic in a time of ever-changing FAA and permitting agency regulations, it is crucial that your airport fully satisfies operational requirements to meet these growing demands while facilitating safe and expeditious movements of aircraft and ground service vehicles. This process brings many challenges, including obtaining funding for your projects, navigating myriad regulations, and keeping your airport operating as efficiently as possible during construction. By partnering with Kimley-Horn, you get extensive airport expertise with the resources to provide long-term value while keeping your facilities up and running.

With demand for air travel on the rise, it is now more important than ever to plan for your airport’s future. Due to the highly dynamic nature of the industry, you are faced with numerous challenges no matter the size or operation of your facility. Aging infrastructure, evolving technology, constantly changing federal standards, and funding issues just scratch the surface–not to mention balancing stakeholder coordination and public involvement efforts. You need an experienced aviation consultant to help your airport realize its full economic potential.

Effective implementation and management are essential factors in the schedule, budget, and overall success of your airport programs. To achieve success, you need support personnel with the right skills and expertise—a partner with the resources of a practiced and well-qualified aviation consulting firm to serve as an extension of your staff and assist with the administration of your airport programs.

In this time of limited resources, school systems and municipalities must seek to spend every dollar wisely—particularly when it comes to facilities and capital improvements. School master plans must seek to reinforce and react to a system’s educational and student needs while crafting an action plan for the next 5-10 years. Successful plans consider local educational specifications including desired class sizes, school sizes, grade span arrangements, special program needs, technology, transportation, athletics, and other needs. Local development patterns and their potential impact on student locations and enrollment also shape a facility’s master plan.

As an airport, pavement condition is vital to your performance?both from a cost effectiveness and aviation safety perspective. It is imperative to be proactive when considering your airport’s pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, viewing it as a long-term investment, rather than taking a reactive approach which could lead to operational and financial inefficiencies and, often, unplanned repairs. You need to maintain your pavement assets, and we can help.