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Photo courtesy of Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District

CARGO MATTERS

GSP used a design-build delivery
method for the cargo facility, working with
Haskell Engineering. Design took about
four months and construction lasted about
a year. Leaders opted with design-build to
get certainty on price and schedule.
" It was a good project for us, GSP and
the community, " Howell says. " The apron
is large enough to hold three wide-body
747-800s at one time. Within the first few
weeks, we had all three positions full for
several days.
" Previously where GSP had to turn away
business, we're not having to do that now. "
Gregory Kershaw PE, of WK Dickson,
which was the consultant on the ramp, says
there is space to add another three parking
spaces on the south side of the taxiway for
the ramp.
Planners were constrained by space on
both the north and south of the new facility. They had to install a dry pond, which
was designed for the ultimate buildout.
" If the airport ever wants to come back
and expand the next three spaces to the
south, the pond is already at a capacity to
handle the additional storm runoff from
that added impervious area, " he says. " It's
a rather large pond, but we wanted to make
sure it wasn't impacted or in the way. "
A fully loaded 747-800 has a takeoff
weight of almost 1 million pounds. The
pavement area consists of 19 inches of
concrete on top of a 6-inch cement-treated
base. It took about four months to finish
the work.

Howell says Greenville-Spartanburg
Airport is working with its partners to keep
diversifying cargo as they look to increase
the number of flights coming in, and saw

Cargo operations at GSP
contribute $478 million to the
region's economy.
an increase in cargo in March due to the
lack of belly capacity.
" There's a lot of industry and manufacturers looking to move product over to the
freighters now that the belly capacity has
dried up, " he says. " It will be interesting to
see how we come out of this and if it will be
a long-term impact to the market. "
Howell says airports need to know their
market before building the right cargo
facility. Understand your strengths and
weaknesses so you can leverage them.
" You got to make sure you're not overbuilding or underbuilding your facility, " he
says.

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Editor’s Note
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