Award of Excellence

Steve Seymour, P.E., of OMNNI Associates received the 2004 Resident Engineer Award for Excellence in Airport Construction. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Bureau of Aeronautics (WisDOT, BOA) gave the honor for construction at the Waupaca Municipal Airport.

The award recognizes the significant efforts that the resident engineer and his field staff provided in coordinating the work involved in the construction.

The Waupaca Municipal Airport project consisted of a new 5,200-foot primary runway, parallel taxiway, hangar area, taxiways, apron expansion, and a new state-of-the-art electrical system.

The resident engineer was responsible for tracking more than 145 bid items from both the WisDOT Highway specification book and the BOA specification book.

The project included more than 1 million yards of excavation, 81,500 tons of base course, 26,400 tons of asphalt, 2,850 feet of culvert pipe, 20,300 feet of underdrains, 750,000 square yards of landscaping, and 6,150 feet of pavement marking.

The new electrical system included more than 16.5 miles of cable, new medium intensity runway lights, lighted wind tee, lighted wind sock, two new regulators, a new electrical vault building, and two sets of new PAPIs.

The $3.27-million project, which was constructed along the environmentally sensitive Waupaca River basin, also required the relocation of one mile of roadway and relocation of several public utilities.

Headquartered in Appleton, Wis., OMNNI Associates is a full-service engineering, architecture and environmental consulting firm. The firm's airport engineering services include runway, taxiway and apron design; airfield lighting and signage; parking facilities; pavement management and design; and security fencing.