The Warrenton-Fauquier Airport

THE WARRENTON-FAUQUI ER A I RPORT another portion of the ramp area. And, of course, there’s a builder that did the building portion. There were three different activities going on, almost concurrently.” The Airport’s new terminal building was designed by Sydnor Tetterton, a Principal of the Price Simpson Harvey architectural and interior design firm of Richmond, VA. Darrah says that the building was planned to be “very green.” In fact, it was built to LEED-Platinum standards; a certification which he is sure could be obtained, should the Airport wish to apply for that designation. The 10,000-square-foot, two-story structure includes a geothermal cooling and heating system with 28 geothermal wells and eight air handlers for its HVAC system. It has 79 solar panels to supply its electricity, and Darrah notes that on a sunny day, the building actually feeds electricity back to the grid. The windows keep heat in during the winter, maintain heat on the outside during the summer, and control the amount of light coming in. The wall insulation had some delays in getting some of the material that was needed. We have a 20,000-gallon cistern for our rainwater harvesting project, and we have a 40,000-gallon cistern that is for our fire suppression. And those two tanks had about a three-month delay getting here, which affected some of the other construction. We were actually set to finish the building by July 2019, with some final touch-ups here and there, but we opened the building in January 2020.” The cost of the entire terminal project was actually $14.8 million, which included all the necessary site development. “We moved 180,000 cubic yards of dirt; we had a tremendous amount of stormwater management that had to be done; and the ramp had to be built,” Darrah remarks. “It was a pretty lengthy and involved construction project, done in two phases. The first phase was to get the actual entrance and the site down to the proper elevation to put the building on and get the ramp area prepared for finishing. The second part was to finish up