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The work might require alternate lane closures but will not shut down the road, board Chairman Bruce Frack said. Widening of Willowbrook Road, Race Street and Airport Road will also begin during the coming weeks. Noise monitoring devices will be positioned along the northern boundaries of the site to gauge that the degree of sound generated by large portable generators and construction activity is within levels permitted by the township's ordinance, with results reported to the township on a weekly basis. The generators will provide power to the on-site trailers until electrical infrastructure is put in place. "Fairly large generators are a lot quieter than smaller ones," Frack said. FedEx anticipates 24 months of construction activity, with the initial six months calling for two 10-hour shifts per day Monday through Saturday. Work is planned from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. The $9.8 million land sale by the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority to New York developer the Rockefeller Group closed in May. The end result will be an 800,000-square-foot package-sorting facility that could eventually increase to 1.1 million square feet. Read the full article here.