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August 19 is National Aviation Day. To commemorate this special occasion, we sat down with Amber Channel, aviation associate planner and certified remote pilot, based in our Rapid City, SD office, and Andrew Zielike, aviation planner and certified remote pilot, in our St. Paul, MN office, to highlight a little-known area of the KLJ team: our UAS team.

We are excited to announce that Curt Cady in our Bismarck office has accepted the position of Aviation’s Area Manager! He will oversee the growth and development of KLJ’s technical professionals in aviation.

Congratulations to Awesome KLJer Kent Penney on passing his American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification exam! This exam is the final step in becoming a certified planner through AICP after meeting specific education and experience requirements and submitting an essay.

We are excited to announce the recent promotion of both Travis Wieber and Shane Steiner, who will now serve as Delivery Directors for Transportation and Aviation, respectively. Additionally, we are pleased to welcome Chris Krafft, who recently joined KLJ as the Telecommunications Delivery Director.

KLJ is proud to be among the presenters for this year’s South Dakota Airports Conference taking place virtually this week. KLJ aviation planners Matt Nisbet and Andrew Zielike will lead a discussion on wind analysis for airport planning projects and why it is necessary. Additionally, KLJ aviation project manager, Jake Braunagel, will present information on precision approach path identifiers (PAPI) discussing everything from proper PAPI design to FAA flight inspection information.

KLJ Engineering has hired Matt Mamura as an Aviation Market Manager in their St. Paul office. In this role, In this role, he is responsible for developing strategy to enhance opportunity with new and existing clients.

KLJ Engineering is proud to welcome three employees to their Grand Junction, CO office. Marc Kenney, Cole Miller, and Dean Cooper are the first of many in the company’s newest Colorado location.

The Princeton Municipal Airport’s project for the Reconstruction of Runway 15-33 has been awarded a 2020 Merit Award from the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) in partnership with the Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association.

Gary serves as the newest member to our production leadership team as Right-of-Way Department Manager. Kris is a Business Process Manager with Technical Services.

Colorado is a land of unparalleled natural beauty and can-do, adventurous people – just the kind of place we are proud to call home. With 74 public-use airports, including one seaplane base, Colorado also historically boasts a robust aviation economy.

Providing client solutions for water, wastewater and conveyance issues is a key strategic focus and growth area for KLJ, a diversified infrastructure provider. We share our client’s concerns for this essential resource and recognize it as a critical element within all our markets and regions; as such, we remain focused on aggressively growing our water team and are proud to welcome Brent Diemer as our newest member of that team.

South Dakota Department of Transportation is hosting their annual Airports Conference March 11-12 in Rapid City to bring airport managers, staff, and consultants together with state and federal officials to exchange information and identify opportunities for continued and enhanced airport operations.

KLJ is proud to announce that three projects have recently been recognized with award recognition.

A three-year- construction project recently came to an end when Bismarck Airport’s Runway 13-31 officially opened on October 19. Reconstruction of the 8,794-foot-long primary runway has been in the works since 2011.

Relocating an international airport is never an easy task, and not necessarily common in the aviation world, but that is exactly what happened in Williston, ND. The Williston Basin International Airport officially opened Oct. 10, 2019, when an incoming flight from Minneapolis landed at the new, state-of-the-art facility.