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Airports Improve Infrastructure As Demand
Increases
(InfoWebPress) – Several airports in
Guanacaste province, including Liberia’s
Daniel Oduber International Airport and the
airports in Nicoya and Nosara, are
benefiting from infrastructure improvements
that would help them respond to a growing
demand in services and the increase in
tourist visitation in the region.
Last March 6, the Civil Aviation Technical
Council and the General Civil Aviation
Division gave construction company
Quebradores El Pedregal a contract to make
improvements to the Nicoya airport, for an
investment of 810 million colones ($1.47
million). The works are expected to take 72
days.
At the Nicoyan aerodrome, crews will lay
down a new asphalt runway with dimensions of
18 meters wide and 963 meters long. Also
built will be two platform areas for
aircraft 17 x 50 meters each on either end
of the runway. The works will include layers
of select materials, sub-foundation,
foundation and asphalt.
The new runway and platforms will be
adequately marked and a new fence will be
installed where required, with the existing
fence being repaired where needed so that
the entire facility is enclosed. Also part
of the improvements will be the elimination
of any obstacles in security areas, and
trees in the surroundings of the airport
will be pruned.
The contract encompasses the execution of
all tasks included in the project’s
blueprints and technical specifications,
including all materials, equipment, tools,
fuel, lubricants, energy, transportation,
labor, services and anything else needed to
execute the project in its totality.
Since last year, four Guanacaste area
airports and two international airports in
other parts of the country have benefited
from expansion and remodeling projects —
including new concrete slabs, runway
painting, perimeter fences and
land-equipment platforms, among others.
Total investment in these works is 9.329
billion colones ($16.9 million). Liberia’s
Daniel Oduber International Airport was the
facility that received the most investment,
with some 3.387 billion colones ($6.1
million) that went toward construction of
34,500 square meters in platforms to
increase from seven to 11 the parking areas
for aircraft at the facility.
Other works conducted at the Liberia airport
included construction of a lighting system
and a land-equipment platform. Some 310
million colones were allocated to repair
cracks, potholes and improve runway
shoulders.
Finally, last Feb. 20 saw the completion of
the last project on Guanacaste airports, as
the 1,000-meter Nosara runway was repaired.
Other improvements made there included the
installation of a perimeter fence and new
paint was applied to the runway. Investment
in this beach airport was 561 million
colones ($1 million).
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