United States: Airport commissioners award contract extension for LAX redesign.Byline: kusumv03 The Board of Airport Commissioners on Monday Monday: see week. awarded a $11.5 million contract extension with HOK Inc. to design the next three phases of a plan to upgrade elevators, escalators and moving walkways A moving walkway, moving sidewalk (in the US), moving pavement (elsewhere), walkalator, travelator (colloquial name, not to be confused with Trav-O-Lator, a type of moving walkway distributed exclusively by United Technologies' Otis Elevator Company), or at Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX . The revised contract, now worth more than $18.3 million, allows HOK Inc. to continue designs for the airport's Vertical Improvement Program through the end of 2011. Airport officials hope to replace 285 outdated out·dat·ed adj. Out-of-date; old-fashioned. outdated Adjective old-fashioned or obsolete Adj. 1. or broken elevators, escalators and moving walkways at LAX by 2012. The equipment, installed 27 years ago, was supposed to have a 25-year life span. In a related move, the airport commission on Monday also awarded a $8.7 million contract to W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. to perform various architectural modifications that will allow for the installation of 32 escalators and 16 elevators as part of the the first phase of the replacement project. Copyright : Euclid Euclid, Greek mathematician Euclid (y  `klĭd), fl. 300 B.C., Greek mathematician. Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
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