{"id":14020,"date":"2019-10-15T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2019-10-15T14:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:28:28","slug":"williston-basin-international-airport-opens-burns-mcdonnell-completes-multiple-design-construction-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-dakota\/williston-basin-international-airport-opens-burns-mcdonnell-completes-multiple-design-construction-projects\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Williston Basin International Airport Opens; Burns & McDonnell Completes Multiple Design & Construction Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Williston Basin International Airport (XWA) in North\nDakota is open with flights beginning on Oct. 10. Burns & McDonnell served\nas the designer of record and on-site construction representative for several\nprojects for the ground-up construction of the airport, which was constructed\nto serve increased commercial aircraft traffic and support the growing economy.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left are Andy Loftus, project manager and civil engineer, Burns & McDonnell, Keegan Parizek, civil engineer, Burns & McDonnell and Anthony Dudas, airport director, Williston Basin International Airport.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The new airport will have two runways and a 110,000-square-foot terminal. The airport comprises four gates and three jet bridges, with the ability to accommodate 350,000 passengers annually. The city broke ground on the project in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’re thrilled to begin flights from the Williston\nBasin International Airport connecting passengers to domestic and international\nlocations near and far,” says Anthony Dudas, airport director. “With\na 22% increase in airport traffic expected this year, we anticipate more than\n140,000 passengers to be supported by our new airport facility.” Dudas\nadded, “Burns & McDonnell and Alliance Consulting helped us stay on\nschedule as they designed and constructed world-class infrastructure systems\nfor our community’s airport.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gene Sieve<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“We’re honored to provide aviation design and\nconstruction services for the Williston Basin International Airport,” says\nGene Sieve, vice president and general manager for Burns & McDonnell in\nMinneapolis-St. Paul. “As we continue to expand our aviation capabilities\nin the Upper Midwest, we look forward to supporting the growing aviation\ninfrastructure needs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the ground-up airport project, Burns &\nMcDonnell and Alliance Consulting designed and constructed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– 51,000-square-yard general aviation apron and the\nsupporting general aviation taxilane system and designed a greenfield crosswind\nrunway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– 5 miles of perimeter and access roads and 7 miles of\n10-foot-tall wildlife perimeter fencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Airfield electrical vault for the airport, including\nroom for a generator sized to power all airfield lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Quick turnaround facility and rental car parking lots\nto serve three rental car vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Steel structures to support the medium intensity\napproach lighting with runway alignment indicator lights system for the primary\nrunway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“From providing design and construction services on\na general aviation apron to designing critical electric systems, we brought an\nongoing commitment to successful collaboration and project delivery,” says\nAndy Loftus, project manager and civil engineer for Burns & McDonnell.\n“We look forward to our continued partnership with the airport and\ncommunity as they connect passengers to and from the region.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Williston Basin International Airport (XWA) in North Dakota is open with flights beginning on Oct. 10. Burns & McDonnell served as the designer of record and on-site construction representative for several projects for the ground-up construction of the airport, which was constructed to serve increased commercial aircraft traffic and support the growing economy. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-north-dakota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-Williston-Airport-MALSR-Stucture-001edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14029,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions\/14029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}