Posted on March - 29 - 2010
Memphis airport authority awards key design, taxiway improvement contracts
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Memphis airport officials today hired designers to plan expansion of the main security checkpoint and awarded a contract for a $24 million rebuilding of taxiways crucial to FedEx hub operations.
The Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority awarded an $840,250 design contract for checkpoint B improvements to a joint venture of The Horrell Group Architects and Self Tucker Architects.
The expansion, aimed at accommodating latest screening equipment including full-body X-ray machines, is on a fast track to start construction this summer, authority president Larry Cox said.
The airport received 12 bids for the design work.
The estimated $11 million project calls for expansion from four lanes to seven and will require relocation of a Starbucks and Hudson Gifts just inside the B Concourse.
Officials expect demolition to begin in June and hope to have construction completed next March, Cox said.
The taxiways slated for rebuilding run parallel to the airport’s only east-west runway, which was replaced last year.
APAC Tennessee Inc., which outbid The Harper Company for the job, will rebuild the taxiway on the south side this year, before FedEx’s peak season arrives after Thanksgiving, Cox said. The taxiway on the north side will be done next year.
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