Albany airport wins infrastructure award.A Best of 2000 Merit Award for Infrastructure, given annually by the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Construction News, has been awarded to the recently completed parking facilities, pedestrian bridge, and land side improvements at Albany International Airport "KALB" redirects here. For the television station in Alexandria, Louisiana, see KALB-TV. For the Arabic word, see kalb (term). Albany International Airport (IATA: ALB, ICAO: KALB) is an airport of entry [1] serving Albany, New York. . Designed by TAMS TAMS Territory and Municipal Services (Australia) TAMS Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (Denton, Texas) TAMS Toshiba America Medical Systems TAMS Token and Medal Society Consultants, in association with Mallen Mendel of Albany, the $35 million parking and site improvement project offers parking patrons a new "front door" to the airport. Components of the project include a recently completed, 1,600-car parking garage and an 800-car parking extension. The pre-cast concrete parking facility is designed for passenger comfort and convenience: generous floor-to-floor heights create a light and welcoming environment; rental car facilities are located at ground level; flat floor plates encourage passenger orientation; well-located escalators and elevators separate pedestrians from vehicular traffic; and external speed ramps provide rapid vertical circulation. The circulation spine provides protected access and a clear travel path for drivers in both the structured and the surface lots. A landscaped corridor through the site connects the airport terminal and garage to the nearby historic Shaker Shaker Member of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a celibate millenarian sect. Derived from a branch of the radical English Quakers (see Society of Friends), the movement was brought to the U.S. Village. The south face of the garage (facing the historic Shaker community) is treated as a building-scale garden wall of brick piers and vine-covered metal grille grille, in architecture, a system of bars, usually of decorative metalwork, forming an openwork barrier or enclosure. In its usual materials of wrought iron or bronze, it has been favored for decorative treatment in all periods. , to visually screen the parking decks, while allowing for open air requirements. Further, the landscape introduces naturalistically planted berms to screen cars, frame the entrance to the airport, and provide a character compatible with the adjacent Shaker community. The new parking facilities and site improvements were designed to support recent growth at the airport, in part fueled by the Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. , which inaugurated daily service from Albany International this spring. |
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