Allan Myers, P. Flanigan JV Lands $83.8M BWI Runway Rehab Job
A joint venture of Allan Myers and P. Flanigan & Sons has won an $83.8 million contract to rehabilitate BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport’s longest runway, Construction Dive reports.
The Maryland Aviation Administration awarded the deal for work on Runway 10-28, a 10,500-foot commercial runway that will close entirely starting this week and run through Oct. 8. Scope includes milling and paving the runway surface plus an electrical upgrade to install modern LED runway lighting. The JV, teaming Worcester, Pennsylvania-based Allan Myers with Baltimore-based P. Flanigan & Sons, will also require overnight closures of a second runway, 15R-33L, to accommodate paving at the intersection of BWI’s two primary runways. Outside those overnight windows, 15R-33L stays fully operational.
“With this major project, we are enhancing Maryland’s gateway and improving the heart of BWI Marshall Airport,” said Shannetta Griffin, executive director and CEO of the Maryland Aviation Administration, according to the airport’s news release. “This runway rehabilitation project will help ensure the long-term safety, reliability and operational efficiency of the airport.”
Market Impact
The BWI award lands alongside a wave of major airport infrastructure spending nationwide. Miami-Dade County has a $1 billion Miami International Airport upgrade underway to add 17 gates, a Chicago Department of Aviation joint venture with AECOM Hunt Clayco Bowa is building a $1.45 billion, 19-gate concourse at O’Hare, and Nashville International Airport and Norfolk International Airport have $900 million and $1 billion modernization programs, respectively. Together with the BWI job, these projects show aviation infrastructure holding steady as a source of large-scale civil work even as broader private construction activity slows.
What It Means for Subcontractors
- Heavy civil, paving, and milling subs in the Baltimore-Washington region should reach out to Allan Myers and P. Flanigan & Sons now, since the runway closure runs through Oct. 8 and will need staged crews for a fast-turnaround airfield job.
- Electrical and E&I contractors should note the scope includes a full LED runway lighting upgrade, a package likely to require FAA-compliant airfield lighting experience and night-shift availability given the overnight closures on Runway 15R-33L.
- Firms with airport or FAA-regulated project experience should also track the larger pipeline: Miami International’s $1 billion gate expansion, O’Hare’s $1.45 billion Concourse D, Nashville’s $900 million program, and Norfolk’s $1 billion modernization all represent active or upcoming subcontract packages in the same sector.
- Subs sensitive to federal funding risk should factor in that the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act expires Sept. 30, a deadline that could affect financing timelines for future airport contracts beyond the projects already awarded.
