BHM CTLR VOICED CONCERN REGARDING AN UNEXPECTED TXWY CLOSURE CLAIMING POOR BRIEFINGS BY MGMNT.

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OVERNIGHT; RWY 6/24 WAS CLOSED TO RE-STRIPE AFTER HAVING BEEN EXTENDED. NUMEROUS VEHICLES ON FREQ AND TXWY CLOSURES WERE ALSO A FACTOR. BECAUSE OF WT REQUIREMENTS; THE TAXIING ACR'S WANTED TO DEPART RWY 18; HOWEVER WITH TXWY B CLOSED THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO THE RWY WAS TO BACK TAXI. SINCE WE WEREN'T ADVISED THAT TXWY B WOULD BE CLOSED AT TXWY A; I QUERIED ARPT 4 (NORMALLY AN OPS MGR VEHICLE) WHEN IT WOULD BE OPEN AND WHY IT WAS CLOSED. SEVERAL VEHICLES RESPONDED. I AGAIN ASKED ARPT 4 FOR THE OPENING OF THE TXWY; AND AGAIN SEVERAL PEOPLE RESPONDED; CAUSING A LOUD SQUEAL IN MY HEADSET. AT LEAST 1 ACFT ALSO CALLED; ADDING TO THE CONFUSION. I THEN XMITTED THAT EVERYONE WAS TO BE QUIET EXCEPT FOR ARPT 4 AND ASKED AGAIN ABOUT THE TXWY. THIS CREATED AN UNSAFE SITUATION; IN THAT WE WERE IMPROPERLY BRIEFED ABOUT TXWY CLOSURES AND THERE WAS A GOOD BIT OF FREQ CONFUSION AND CONGESTION. ADDITIONALLY; OUR MGR INSTRUCTED THE CTLRS THAT BECAUSE NONE OF THE DISTANCES ON THE INTXNS WERE VERIFIED ON THE NEWLY LENGTHENED RWY; WE COULD ONLY ASSIGN RWY 24 AT A7 AS AN INTXN DEP. MUCH OF THE CONFUSION COULD HAVE BEEN ALLEVIATED AND THINGS WOULD HAVE GONE MORE SMOOTHLY IF THE CTLRS THAT ACTUALLY WORK THE TFC HAD BEEN CONSULTED DURING THE PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF THE RWY/TXWY WORK.