Two Spokane contractors are apparent low bidders on separate multimillion-dollar projects at Spokane International Airport that will be awarded this summer if they receive Federal Aviation Administration funding, says airport spokesman Todd Woodard.

If approved, the two projects totaling close to $20 million would be paid for with funds from the FAA's Airport Improvement Program.

Woodard says construction timelines for both projects would be determined by the contractors after receiving funding.

Acme Concrete Paving Co. is the apparent low bidder on a $12.3 million taxiway reconfiguration at the airport. The project would involve tapering, demolishing, and reconstructing taxiways near the main runway, which runs parallel to the airport terminal, and taxiways near the south pilot ramp that is southeast of the terminal.

Woodard says the reconfiguration would enhance safety, efficiency, and improve access to terminal ramps from the runway.

Bend, Ore.,-based Century West Engineering Corp. designed the reconfiguration. Century West has offices in Spokane, Ellensburg, Wash., Coeur d'Alene, and Portland.

Meanwhile, Lydig Construction is the apparent low bidder on a $7.4 million project to construct an aircraft rescue and firefighting facility, to be built southwest of the main terminal.

Work would involve erecting a 16,000-square-foot, single-story facility with four equipment bays. The contractor also would build a ramp, a parking area, and new access roads running to the aircraft rescue and firefighting facility from Airport Drive and another to an existing taxiway.

Woodard says the current 10,500-square-foot rescue and firefighting facility there was built in 1978 and doesn't meet current FAA design requirements. Once the new facility is complete, the old building, located northeast of the terminal, will be used by the airport for some other purpose, although it hasn't been determined what that will be.

The new location of the aircraft rescue and firefighting facility will provide a faster response time to runways, he says.

Integrus Architecture PS, based here, designed the new building.