August 2011 - Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Housing Authority and Airlift Northwest to work with Airside on airspace for medical flights.
The potential impact of the planned Yesler Terrace development by Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) on airspace used by Airlift Northwest will be reviewed by Airside. Concerns about the maintenance of sufficient airspace to operate emergency medical flights due to the planned development have caused all entities to work together to determine how to ensure the safe continuation of EMS helicopter flights while meeting the needs of SHA and Harborview Medical Center.
August 2011 – Airside finishes airport layout plans for three Washington communities.
Plans that will depict existing conditions and recommend improvements at Quincy Municipal Airport, Lind Municipal Airport and Strom Field in Morton are expected to be finished by September of this year. These plans will provide direction to the airport sponsor about management, land use, zoning and capital improvement projects. They will also serve to support requests for grants-in-aid from the Washington State Department of Transportation’s Aviation Division.
July 2011 – CTA Architects of Boise, Idaho chooses Airside to develop new elevated heliport at Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande, Oregon.
Airside will work closely with CTA and Grande Ronde management during the summer and fall of 2011 to obtain a conditional use permit from the city of La Grande and then to design a new rooftop EMS heliport that will be used to transfer critically ill and injured patients to regional medical centers.
June 2011 – Providence Everett Regional Medical Center activates an EMS heliport designed by Airside.
Airside provided consultation and design services for ZGF Architects LLP and Providence Everett Regional Medical Center over the past eighteen months to design and activate an EMS heliport on the new Cymbaluk Medical Tower at the hospital’s Colby Everett campus.
November 2010 – Airside chosen to plan a new heliport for the Army’s 101st Airborne Division
Airside has been chosen to plan and design a new emergency medical service heliport at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Fort Campbell is home base of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. This new medical heliport is part of a major hospital expansion. Our company will be working with ZGF Architects LLP’s Portland office, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and hospital managers at Blanchfield on this project.