[Delta]Boundary Bay Airport New Terminal | Completed

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New Boundary Bay Airport terminal takes off

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Boundary Bay Airport’s new terminal building is expected to be completed by early 2010.

It’s wheels up on the project to build a new terminal building at Boundary Bay Airport.

On Tuesday (April 21) Mayor Lois Jackson joined officials from airport lease holder Alpha Aviation to announce that the new $5-million, 15,000-square-foot facility is expected to be completed early next year.

“I am looking forward to some very good things from this little airport,” said Jackson at the announcement. “We talk about our little hospital in Delta that could and this is the little airport in Delta that can.”

Jackson added she is happy that Alpha Aviation – which assumed the airport lease in December 2004 – is moving along with its plans to help capitalize on the expected air traffic created by the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and beyond.

Jackson said the airport is well-situated between Victoria and points north and east to serve as an air transportation hub.

“I think people have overlooked Boundary Bay Airport for a long time,” she said.

She dismissed the idea a busier airport will mean more noise complaints from adjacent residents.

“We are the fifth-busiest airport in Canada because of the (flight) training centre. The people are used to having the smaller planes,” Jackson said. “The small trainers are much noisier than the any small jet coming in or taking off.”Fred Kaiser, chairman of Alpha Aviation said the announcement is an exciting day for the community, “because we have taken this diamond in the rough and we keep polishing and enlarging and improving and making things better.”

Kaiser added the value of the airport is concurrently on the rise, and not strictly in financial measurements, “but in terms of utilization, convenience and enjoyment.”

The new terminal, which will replace a collection of outdated portable buildings, will be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified.

Among the “green” initiatives will be a roof that will act as a rainwater collector for the building’s surrounding landscaping.

Alpha Aviation president Lynda Hogarth said the development of a new terminal will put the airport firmly on the map.

“There’s lot of other people who have said they’d be interested in coming here if there was a new terminal building.”

editor@southdeltaleader.com

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Another article from The Province

New terminal has airport flying high
State-of-the-art building set to take expansion plans to new heights

By Brian Lewis, The Province

Boundary Bay Airport is about to take its biggest step forward since the Delta facility's original opening 68 years ago as a hastily built Second World War pilot-training facility.

Officials will gather this morning near the landmark heritage hangar that once housed the magnificent flying machines from that long-ago war to take the wraps off a new state-of-the-art, 21st-century terminal building.

Consequently, there's an intriguing juxtaposition here in placing a technologically and environmentally sophisticated new terminal so close to a survivor of aviation history.

Although separated by so many years, both buildings symbolize in their own ways a constant quest to move forward.

The old hangar contributed to the fight against global tyranny, while the new, 15,000-square-foot terminal is designed to help fight global warming. It's purpose-built to the highest international standards for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions while saving energy.

Examples of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards include high-efficiency glass windows that absorb more sun while allowing less heat to escape, a special heat-reflecting, water-collecting roof, and native grasses that don't require mowing, fertilizers or pesticides.

Construction of the $3.5-million terminal also marks a rebirth for Boundary Bay Airport, which was neglected for years until Delta municipality acquired it from the federal government in the late 1990s.

"Our little airport is growing up," says Delta Mayor Lois Jackson, who with other officials will take part in this morning's unveiling. They'll be joined by representatives of Alpha Aviation Inc., the company Delta hired in 2004 to operate and develop the airport.

Alpha entered the picture after its owner and chairman, Fred Kaiser, saw the airport's potential.

Kaiser is the multimillionaire founder of U.S.-based Alpha Technologies, a global leader in the development and manufacturing of power systems for voice, video and data networks. His companies also have a strong B.C. presence and a building at the University of B.C. now bears his name.

But he also loves flying, which is why he invested in Boundary Bay Airport five years ago.

"The new terminal should help us attract more small, regional airlines to fly out of Boundary Bay," says airport manager Greg Fong, who spoke on behalf of Alpha Aviation yesterday.

"With our concentration of flight-training schools, we're already Canada's fifth-busiest airport [in terms of takeoffs and landings], but we also have a significant amount of vacant land -- about 65 acres -- that could be used to attract more aviation-related businesses."

Alpha scored a major coup several years ago by attracting helicopter-maintenance company Heli-One's new plant to Boundary Bay, where more than 400 highly skilled people now work.

A plan is in place to develop the airport over the long term, which includes provisions to upgrade surrounding roads and build an overpass over the Deltaport rail tracks at 80th Ave.

And Fong also says that, if Alpha's expansion plans reach fruition, the current workforce of roughly 1,000 could easily quadruple to more than 4,000.

Now that would certainly represent a considerable wind beneath Delta's economic wings, wouldn't it?

blewis@theprovince.com
© Copyright (c) The Province


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[Whalleyboy]

thats awesome i was hoping that place would start to grow

[Whalleyboy]

Delta’s new welcome mat for air travellers is rapidly taking shape at Boundary Bay Airport.

After breaking ground last fall, the new, 15,000-sq.-ft. terminal building is almost fully enclosed as construction workers on the site busily go about their tasks that should see the facility open and operational in time for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games next February.

Airport general manager Greg Fong said the project is long overdue in terms of providing a suitable facility for corporate fliers.

“This is now going to be the focal point of the airport,” Fong said, adding the collection of prefabricated buildings that currently serve as the terminal will likely be demolished and the site used to construct buildings for other aviation-related businesses.

The new, $5.5-million terminal’s curved roof design mimics the adjacent heritage hangar.

On the inside it will feature an open floor plan with plenty of floor to ceiling windows to capitalize on the air side views, something Alpha Aviation – which leases the airport site from the Corporation of Delta – hopes will draw aviation buffs who simply want to come out and see the planes.

A big part of that is expected to be the site’s restaurant which will occupy the western end of the building and extend to a spacious outdoor patio.

On the corporate side, the terminal will offer contemporary check in and arrival facilities, plus a pilot’s lounge where aviators can plan flights and even have a shower to freshen up.

Construction means the new main road entrance to the airport will be shifted from 72 Street to 80 Street.

A new,100-stall parking lot will accommodate visitors’ vehicles, and a new one-way drop-off and pick-up route will flow past the terminal building’s main entrance.

A soft opening to work out the kinks is anticipated to be sometime in late December with a grand opening to be in February.
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[Millennium2002]

isn't it open already? =O

[metroXpress]

^ I think I read it somewhere....

New Boundary Bay Airport terminal to open inFebruary

Published: September 18, 2009 10:00 AM
Updated: September 18, 2009 10:05 AM

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Delta’s new welcome mat for air travellers is rapidly taking shape at Boundary Bay Airport.

After breaking ground last fall, the new, 15,000-sq.-ft. terminal building is almost fully enclosed as construction workers on the site busily go about their tasks that should see the facility open and operational in time for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games next February.

Airport general manager Greg Fong said the project is long overdue in terms of providing a suitable facility for corporate fliers.

“This is now going to be the focal point of the airport,” Fong said, adding the collection of prefabricated buildings that currently serve as the terminal will likely be demolished and the site used to construct buildings for other aviation-related businesses.

The new, $5.5-million terminal’s curved roof design mimics the adjacent heritage hangar.

On the inside it will feature an open floor plan with plenty of floor to ceiling windows to capitalize on the air side views, something Alpha Aviation – which leases the airport site from the Corporation of Delta – hopes will draw aviation buffs who simply want to come out and see the planes.

A big part of that is expected to be the site’s restaurant which will occupy the western end of the building and extend to a spacious outdoor patio.

On the corporate side, the terminal will offer contemporary check in and arrival facilities, plus a pilot’s lounge where aviators can plan flights and even have a shower to freshen up.

Construction means the new main road entrance to the airport will be shifted from 72 Street to 80 Street.

A new,100-stall parking lot will accommodate visitors’ vehicles, and a new one-way drop-off and pick-up route will flow past the terminal building’s main entrance.

A soft opening to work out the kinks is anticipated to be sometime in late December with a grand opening to be in February.

editor@southdeltaleader.com

[Millennium2002]

oh. my bad =O

[deasine]

In case people don't know what it looks like (rather large rendering sorry):

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Source: CZBB

[jlousa]

Acutally not a fan, but for shelfish reasons, they used to rent out the airstrip for track days to local sportscar clubs but since the new ownership took over things have changed. I can't blame them but it was nice to have a place to enjoy cars w/o the long trek to Mission.

[Whalleyboy]

well then that just means more reason for langley to reopen the speedway

[Spoolmak]

What size of planes fly outta there? I have never heard of this airport lol

[Spork]

The thing looks almost as large as Quebec City's airport!

[Whalleyboy]

if you look more into it to you'd find out its the fifth busiest aircraft movements airport in canada

just noticed it said that in the first post

[Spoolmak]

LOL, notice the space shuttle to the left of the building