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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.

KLJ, Sioux Falls Regional Airport Authority, and T&R Contracting, Inc. received the 2018 National Excellence in Concrete Pavement “Gold” Award in the Reliever & General Aviation Airports Category in November for recent work at the Sioux Falls Regional Airport.

KLJ and T&R Contracting, Inc. will receive the 2018 National Excellence in Concrete Pavement in the Reliever & General Aviation Airports Category next month for our recent work at the Sioux Falls Regional Airport. The award is granted by the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) to recognize high-quality concrete workmanship performed by contractors, engineers, and project owners.

Thanks to collaboration between KLJ and the Cities of Bismarck and Mobridge, both cities’ airports have been designated among 37 nationwide finalists to receive FAA supplemental funding.

If your airport is like most airports in the country, you are usually in the process of making improvements to your airport and need FAA AIP grants to make those projects happen. To obtain those AIP funds, you need to start the process by understanding project eligibility and justification.

Winter is quickly approaching and many airports are preparing for cold weather operations.

KLJ is proud to announce that Leon Basler has received the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.

If you’ve been in the aviation industry for any length of time, you’ve probably heard horror stories where airports had to address issues such as a building constructed in the way of proposed airside development, a home or building inadvertently built within a Runway Protection Zone, or non-compatible construction that occurred on an airport that required substantial cost to correct.

Brandon Mattison earned his PE in South Dakota. He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from South Dakota State University. Brandon specializes in Aviation in the Rapid City office.

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