Highlands and Islands Airports Restricted (HIAL) is to take a position £9 million in new power environment friendly Aeronautical Floor Lighting (AGL) techniques at Kirkwall and Inverness airports as a part of an ongoing programme to take care of airport infrastructure that may also carry environmental advantages.
Following open tender processes, contractors GMR Henderson have been awarded the contract to hold out the work at Kirkwall, with G&A Barnie chosen for the undertaking at Inverness.
The AGL system offers visible steerage to pilots throughout touchdown, taxiing and take-off in darkness and when visibility is impaired because of hostile climate circumstances. The brand new lighting will guarantee the airports can proceed to function safely and be compliant with Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) necessities. They may also scale back power consumption by as much as 80%.
The work has been deliberate to make sure there is no such thing as a affect on flights with little disturbance at both airport. Set to start in April, the work will proceed by way of to mid-September at Inverness, with Kirkwall because of full in October.
Graeme Bell, Inverness Airport Basic Supervisor, mentioned: “The brand new lighting represents a big modernisation of our airfield lighting system and can contribute to decreased upkeep schedules whereas on the similar time lowering the airport’s environmental footprint.
“The power saving qualities of the brand new system will contribute considerably to lowering our power consumption at Inverness airport”. Kirkwall Airport Supervisor, Kimberley Fisher, mentioned: “Having this new LED AGL system in place not solely retains our runways protected and compliant with regulation, but additionally helps our work to be extra power environment friendly.
“The undertaking has been designed to create a seamless transition from the previous to the brand new extra sustainable system with out impacting our providers.” Of the general determine, £5 million is being invested in Kirkwall and £4 million in Inverness.
