In a Multifaceted Aviation Market, It's Bottom-Line Streamlining
It was a construction success story, of sorts. At Passenger Terminal World, in Amsterdam this April, Angela Newland described the project to renovate and expand Ohio’s Columbus Airport with a $7-million contract, $2-million change order and “flash-track” design and build process.
“We ordered steel before the terminal was designed,” the vice president of planning and engineering recalled. In half a year, the regional airport authority renovated almost 10,000 sq ft of operations and ticketing space and 11,000 sq ft of terminal lounges. By January 2007, it was ready for 500,000 annual passengers using the new hub airline Skybus. The airport began considering expansion phases two and three. Then, on April 4, 2007, “Skybus quit and filed for bankruptcy,” Newland said.