Woolpert retains Purduecontract

Woolpert has been retained on a fifive- year contract byPurdueUniversity to provide on-call engineering and architecture services at the Purdue University Airport. The fifirm will provide runway rehabilitation, taxiway installments, fifire and rescue upgrades, navigation improvementsandadditional support as needed.

PurdueUniversity Airport is certified by the Federal Aviation Administration as a Part 139 airport. It was the fifirst university- owned airport in the country and is the second busiest airport in Indiana. Woolpert Vice President and Aviation Market Director Chris Snyder saidplanned safety enhancements will ease the flflow of traffiffic at the public airport, which also is home to the busiest runway in the state.

Snyder said the airport alsohas commercial charter, corporate and cargo flflights that support the aviation needs ofTippecanoeCounty. He said activity is expected to increase in the coming years due to PurdueUniversity’s continued growth and Greater Lafayette’s expanding economy, which includes world-renowned companies like Subaru, Caterpillar, GE Aviation, Rolls Royce and Wabash National.

Snyder, a Purdue graduate, said Woolpert has supportedprevious PurdueUniversity Airport on- call contracts. Projectshave included reconstructing the airport’s primary runway, replacing Precision Approach Path Indicators, implementing safety phasing plans for air traffiffic and the control tower, replacing and upgrading all airfield signage, widening shoulders and improving taxiway safety, andinstalling runway guard lights.

Woolpert provides on-call services to more than 20 airports in Indiana, provides engineering and geospatial services to commercial and general aviation airports across the country, has experts who serve on national aviation boards, and works with the FAA on projects and processes.