{"id":1637,"date":"2015-11-17T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theflatironblog.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2016-02-23T17:49:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:49:04","slug":"dia-runway-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/news\/dia-runway-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"DIA Runway Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Central Division Celebrates Denver International Airport Runway Opening<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1639\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flatironcon.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mike-Blasi-Ned-Meyers-Ron-Adair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"wp-image-1639 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/flatironcon.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mike-Blasi-Ned-Meyers-Ron-Adair-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Blasi Ned Meyers Ron Adair\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mike-Blasi-Ned-Meyers-Ron-Adair-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mike-Blasi-Ned-Meyers-Ron-Adair.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Blasi, Ned Meyers, Ron Adair (left to right) at the project office.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On sunny October 16, a lunch celebration was held for the opening of Runway 17L-35R at the Denver International Airport (DIA). Approximately 70 to 80 Central Division employees, project subcontractors, and DIA representatives celebrated the efforts of the project team members for their hard work and dedication to complete this fast-paced $35 million bid-build project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to thank the entire project team and everyone who assisted with this project for their hard work! This was a challenging project, and we should be proud of the effort everyone gave to complete on time,\u201d said project manager Mike Blasi.<\/p>\n<p>In just 100 days, this project team completed the pavement and lighting rehabilitation project that included 160,000 square yards of concrete pavement removal, new runway and taxiway lighting, and new concrete pavement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1638\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flatironcon.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/first-landing-at-DIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1638\" class=\"wp-image-1638 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/flatironcon.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/first-landing-at-DIA-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"first landing at DIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/first-landing-at-DIA-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/first-landing-at-DIA.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First landing at DIA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe team did a great job for the amount of hours they put,\u201d added Mike Ruiz, District Safety Manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Division Celebrates Denver International Airport Runway Opening On sunny October 16, a lunch celebration was held for the opening of Runway 17L-35R at the Denver International&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[471,111,142,145,179,357,415],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-news","tag-airports","tag-central-division","tag-denver","tag-dia","tag-flatiron","tag-runway","tag-taxiway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flatironcorp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}