September-October 2022 - 8

PARKING
AUTHOR Christina Marsh
Things to Consider When
Building a Parking Garage
Norfolk International Airport and Asheville
Regional Airport provide examples of what to
consider when building a new parking garage at
your airport.
WHETHER THE airport is large, or small, there is a lot to
think about when planning for building a parking garage
or improving an existing one. Gresham Smith [GS], an
infrastructure design group, spoke to us about recent
projects at Norfolk International Airport and Asheville
Regional Airport, what kind of planning goes into building
and upgrading these facilities, and what airports
need to consider.
In December of 2021, GS completed
construction of a parking
facility at Norfolk International
Airport in Virginia to provide
spaces in addition to what was
available in a pre-existing facility.
In December of 2017, GS
had completed construction of
a brand-new parking facility at
Asheville Regional Airport
PHOTOS BY GRESHAM SMITH
Asheville Regional Airport in
North Carolina. Prior to this, the
airport did not have a parking
facility, simply an open surface
parking lot.
Chief Operating Officer at
Asheville Regional Airport,
Michael Reisman said the airport
was experiencing substantial
growth over several years and
was over capacity in terms of
parking requirements.
" The airport historically had less
than 400,000 annual enplanements
and had about a five- or six-year
run where every year we were
breaking the prior year's record
in terms of enplanement growth, "
Reisman said. " We very quickly got
to a point where the surface parking
facilities that had served us well for
decades were just inadequate in
terms of servicing the parking needs
and the capacity that we required. "
Executive vice president of the
aviation market at Gresham Smith,
Wilson Rayfield said every client
is different, and Norfolk and
Asheville are very different clients
in terms of the projects.
" Norfolk had always planned
for this parking garage, Garage
D, to be located where it is, " said
Rayfield. " They built some new
parking 20 years ago and had situated
the site to always plan for
this garage that was just completed.
Whereas Asheville had not anticipated
a garage across from the terminal,
and in fact, when we first
started planning for that project,
there was a lot of discussion about
several potential alternate locations
for that garage. "
8 \ AIRPORT BUSINESS / SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022

September-October 2022

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of September-October 2022

Inside the Fence
Industry Update
Things to Consider When Building a Parking Garage
How Video Surveillance Technologies Are Changing the Way Airports O
Airport Business Security Report
Legal Matters
Airports’ Ongoing Push to Sustainability
Terminal Safety Includes Healthy Air and UV-C Light
Product Focus
September-October 2022 - 1
September-October 2022 - 2
September-October 2022 - 3
September-October 2022 - 4
September-October 2022 - Inside the Fence
September-October 2022 - Industry Update
September-October 2022 - 7
September-October 2022 - Things to Consider When Building a Parking Garage
September-October 2022 - 9
September-October 2022 - 10
September-October 2022 - 11
September-October 2022 - How Video Surveillance Technologies Are Changing the Way Airports O
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September-October 2022 - Airport Business Security Report
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September-October 2022 - Legal Matters
September-October 2022 - 35
September-October 2022 - Airports’ Ongoing Push to Sustainability
September-October 2022 - 37
September-October 2022 - Terminal Safety Includes Healthy Air and UV-C Light
September-October 2022 - 39
September-October 2022 - Product Focus
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