{"id":19315,"date":"2021-08-29T20:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T20:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=19315"},"modified":"2021-08-29T20:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T20:10:32","slug":"yuma-airport-awards-contract-to-rehabilitate-apron-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/arizona\/yuma-airport-awards-contract-to-rehabilitate-apron-areas\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Yuma Airport Awards Contract to Rehabilitate Apron Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yuma International Airport has announced the award of a\n$2,492,820.50 construction contract to local Yuma contractor Cemex Construction\nMaterials South, LLC to construct improvements necessary to rehabilitate\nseveral general aviation aircraft apron areas on the civilian side of the\nairport. Yuma International Airport awarded the project\u2019s design and construction\noversight contracts to Nicklaus Engineering, Inc., another local firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis project is part of the Airport\u2019s Capital Improvement\nProgram and Yuma International Airport appreciates Federal grant funding\nreceived from the FAA for its successful completion,\u201d said Airport Director,\nGladys Brown. Ms. Brown went on to explain that these user-sourced funds are\ncollected through fees included in airline ticket sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuma-project-2edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19317\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuma-project-2edit.jpg 700w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuma-project-2edit-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><figcaption><em>Work is underway near the Northwest Hangars along 32nd Street and South Fortuna Avenue. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe objective of this project is to improve approximately\n98,000 square yards of paved aprons located in our general aviation areas on\nthe northwest and western portion of the airport property,\u201d Brown shared.\n\u201cThese project areas show signs of severe cracking and in some areas of\nspalling due to the extreme weather conditions. This construction project is an\neffort to preserve the pavement for the safety of the aircraft and reconstruct\nareas which cannot be preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Brown continued, &#8220;We&#8217;re very excited about this\nproject especially because this project\u2019s Engineer and Contractor are local\nYuma businesses who are very experienced in doing work at the airport. One of\nthe top goals of the Board of Directors of the Yuma County Airport Authority is\nto keep Yuma money in Yuma; and we&#8217;re proud Yuma has exceptionally qualified\ntalent so we can keep and spend these grant funds in Yuma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The construction project, expected to begin early August,\nwill be completed in phases allowing the airport staff to coordinate with local\npilots so they have appropriate access to their aircraft, Ms. Brown, Airport\nDirector explained. \u201cWe anticipate Cemex and NEI will successfully complete the\nproject on time and as budgeted. The airport is excited to have ongoing construction\nto help improve the airport\u2019s facilities to attract new interest in testing,\nresearch and mission training.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuma International Airport has announced the award of a $2,492,820.50 construction contract to local Yuma contractor Cemex Construction Materials South, LLC to construct improvements necessary to rehabilitate several general aviation aircraft apron areas on the civilian side of the airport. Yuma International Airport awarded the project\u2019s design and construction oversight contracts to Nicklaus Engineering, Inc., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yuma-projectedit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","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=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19318,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/19318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}