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FAA begins construction of new Houston Air-Traffic facility
Published: 24-Nov-2009
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Houston Airport System (HAS) has begun construction of a $43 million new Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) that will be able to handle the expected growth in flight operations in the Houston area.
The 47,500 square feet facility will replace an outdated structure that was commissioned 40 years ago. The new TRACON will be located on 21 acres of land at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) that will be leased from the City of Houston at no cost.
Approximately 218 air-traffic controllers, managers and technical support personnel will be assigned to the new TRACON. It will have space for up to 27 radar positions, compared with the 20 radar positions that are in the current TRACON.
The Houston TRACON is responsible for controlling air traffic over roughly 16,000 square miles of airspace, stretching from the Texas-Louisiana border to about 35 miles east of Austin and from Galveston to 30 miles north of College Station. In Fiscal Year 2009, controllers at the Houston TRACON handled 900,660 individual aircraft operations.
On September 10, the government awarded Imperial Construction Ltd. of Weatherford, Texas, a $15 million contract to begin work on the new facility.
The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2013.
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