Jviation, a Woolpert Company

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We are excited to announce that Roben L. Armstrong—a leader in aviation, transportation and environmental planning—has joined Jviation, a Woolpert Company. Over the last 20+ years, Roben has excelled in multiple aviation roles and has become known for helping organizations develop sustainable strategies and infrastructures that support their long-term planning goals.

Roben comes to Jviation fresh from her position as a strategic planning manager for the Clark County Department of Aviation in Nevada, where she oversaw long-term capital planning projects and managed off-airport development in the booming Las Vegas region. While there, she developed the division’s first strategic plan, streamlined communications strategies across five airports and led project development efforts for the region’s proposed secondary commercial airport.

No stranger to the private sector, Roben spent nearly a decade at a large engineering firm in Houston, where she advanced quickly to become the aviation lead for the firm’s South-Central region. She was responsible for business development and the management of several large-scale transportation projects, and her project team won an Outstanding Achievement Award for Excellence in Environmental Document Preparation.

A Texas Southern University grad twice over, Roben earned her bachelor’s degree in aviation science management and her master’s in transportation planning and management. At Jviation, we are excited to welcome her back home as she is working out of our Houston office.

We can’t wait to work with this innovative aviation leader. Welcome, Roben!!

Woolpert

We are pleased to announce that Jeff Borowiec, a longtime leader in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, has joined our growing Aviation Planning practice! In addition to being an instrument-rated private pilot, Jeff is an experienced aviation planner, researcher and thought leader who has fostered a reputation for excellence and integrity across the aviation industry and the state of Texas.

A trusted advisor to the Texas Department of Transportation, other governmental agencies and key industry leaders, Jeff has supported and advanced the TxDOT Aviation Division’s continuous planning program and has served as a project manager and principal investigator on dozens of aviation studies.

Most recently, Jeff led the research team supporting the Urban Air Mobility Advisory Committee designed to facilitate UAM’s integration into Texas and was a major contributor to the ACRP 09-11 Pavement Maintenance, Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Management.

Nationally, Jeff is known for his work chairing the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Standing Committee on Aviation System Planning and is now the incoming chairman of the TRB Aviation Group.

We are honored to have this versatile, innovative and dynamic addition to our aviation team. Welcome, Jeff!!

Woolpert

Cool New York Times article on the "high-stakes, three-dimensional game of Tetris" played by one small airport in Hailey, Idaho, for one week each July during the Sun Valley Conference.

The story details how Friedman Memorial Airport officials and consultants, including Greg Dyer of Jviation, a Woolpert Company, successfully manage the organized chaos that comes with hundreds of private jets employing a single, 100-foot-wide asphalt runway.

Woolpert The New York Times

When Private Jets Ferry Billionaires to Small-Town Idaho Every July, as the elite Sun Valley conference kicks off, one man shepherds multimillion-dollar private planes and some of the world’s most powerful people.

Welcome, Tracey!!



https://woolpert.com/news/press-releases/27417/

“Our aviation market in the region has experienced the most improvement with the resurgence of passenger air traffic in recent months," Woolpert's JD Ingram said. "And, with the passing of the federal infrastructure act, we anticipate the aviation market will continue to improve as well as the [broader] transportation market."

Engineering News-Record Woolpert

Transportation Work Keeping Regional Designers Busy Revenues are improving, but regional AEC firms continue to struggle with materials shortages, protracted delivery times and hybrid work arrangements.