Business View Magazine March 2023

233 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 3 NORTHEAST PHI LADELPHIA AI RPORT Philadelphia Airport was updated in 2022 to allow for future projects accounting for the growth of the airport. The last project, now complete, was a three-year, 34-million-dollar rehabilitation of the main runway. That runway is now capable of landing any plane, of any weight. The runway, however, is now a lot stronger than the taxiways and the rest of the facility – so it is on to bring everything else up to the same standard. A project completed during the summer months of 2022, although not visible, but very important, was the relocation of electrical access manholes. The airport was constructed such that the two runways intersect and just outside of the intersection in the grass, but inside of the safety areas of both runways are four mangoes. Inside of these manholes are many of the electrical and control wiring for the airfield. To access these manholes, the airport would have to be closed since working in the manholes meant working inside the safety areas of both runways. The project relocated these four manholes and all associated wiring outside of the runway safety areas. The work was completed by Global Electric Inc, who has been the main electrical contractor through several projects at the airport - the owner of Global is a pilot himself, and Brewer