The primary responsibility of airside taxiway and runway systems is to move aircraft to and from the runways in the most efficient manner to limit delays. Airside design begins with airfield planning for taxiways, aprons, and runways. Urban has provided planning and design of all types of airside aviation and airfield facilities, including:

• Runway
• Taxiway and apron design
• Pavement investigations
• Analysis and design
• Stormwater management and drainage design
• Runway safety area design
• Utility and utility relocations
• Service roads
• Runway and taxiway lighting and signage
• Airfield electrical systems design
• Navigational aid (NAVAID) planning and design

Our goal for landside facilities is to create an airport that can be easily navigated. We want to remove the stress of finding your gate because traveling is stressful enough already. Our landside design experience includes roadway and highway planning and design; culvert and bridge design; stormwater management and drainage design; utility and utility relocations; traffic studies, traffic engineering, and signal design; roadway lighting and signage; parking lots and garages; and maintenance and operations facilities, including materials storage areas. 

Urban guides projects from planning to design and on through construction. We oversee all contractors and the delivery and completion of projects. Urban provides a wide range of construction support services, some of which are performed during design. Our estimating, scheduling, and constructability support services aid in the development of budgets and schedules for construction documents, as well as in the review of projects with a critical eye to contractor issues. At this stage, Urban’s primary goal is to minimize cost and future issues - foresight.

During construction, Urban’s construction managers, inspectors, and administrative staff support the project by providing shop drawings and submittal reviews; responding to contractor questions; and reviewing and approving contractors’ safety plans, construction schedules, and work plans for their assignments. Urban supervises field and laboratory testing, conducts regularly scheduled coordination meetings with contractors, and prepares progress charts, construction schedules, and reports. The project’s major items will be identified and broken down by areas, phases, and types of work. This helps Urban prepare the most logical and efficient construction schedule for each project undertaken, and our construction personnel will follow through with close monitoring of construction progress.  At the end of the project, we will generate punch lists and perform a project close-out review.