For over 40 years, HNTB has served as partner to the Kansas City Aviation Department (KCAD) at the Kansas City International Airport (MCI). Throughout this long-standing collaboration, the firm has successfully delivered on a wide array of aviation infrastructure projects and improvements — work that has ultimately touched every square yard of pavement at the airport.
HNTB has provided a broad range of services over the last four decades, including planning, engineering, program and construction management, and more. Recently, the firm has worked alongside KCAD on both completed and ongoing projects deemed critical to the airport’s operational goals and continued growth.
MCI’s longest and primary parallel runway, Runway 1L-19R was reconstructed to meet current FAA requirements and accommodate the airport’s steady growth and new terminal. HNTB provided rigorous pavement analysis prior to the project’s start and went on to provide planning, airfield civil design, bidding and construction services for the runway project.
HNTB phased the construction over two years to align with anticipated FAA funding and grant cycles to further support the client. The firm also developed a schedule that allowed the 10,801-foot-long runway to be fully reconstructed and operational in time for MCI’s new terminal — Kansas City’s largest infrastructure project to date and an initiative that HNTB supported with landside, airside, utilities and phasing program management services.
As an extension of the reconstructed Runway 1L-19R, HNTB is working alongside KCAD on the ongoing High Speed Exit Taxiway Reconstruction project, which will create a more efficient airfield utilizing less pavement and realigning the taxiways to improve operations adjacent to the new terminal.
HNTB provides planning, design, bidding and construction services on the project, which will replace the 60-year-old pavement in phases to maintain airfield operations and reduce impacts to the primary runway to only one phase.
HNTB provided design, bidding and construction services for the rehabilitation of Taxiway E & Taxiway J, another area of infrastructure serving one of the airport’s parallel runways. The project reconstructed the surface pavement of the taxiways and was divided into two separate phases to ensure that Runway 1R-19L always remained operational for arrivals and departures. HNTB proactively scheduled construction in coordination with concurrent airfield projects to mitigate operational impacts.
Location: Kansas City, MO
Client: Kansas City International Airport (MCI); Kansas City Aviation Department (KCAD)
Services: Planning, civil design, construction management, bidding
