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The arrival of the A380 Airbus has accelerated demand for structural improvements to airfield pavements.
This has been particularly highlighted at Manchester Airport, where Gill Civil Engineering have been involved in a four year long programme of taxiway and apron reconstruction as part of the Airports Maintenance Framework.
Our work has involved the breaking up of existing pavements, which are recycled for use as sub-base and lean concrete aggregates, the removal of poor quality material at formation level, reconstruction of the pavement comprising 200mm thickness of Wet Lean Concrete (WLC) which is covered with 585mm of Pavement Quality Concrete (PQC).
The work has been carried out in individual blocks and from 2006 to 2010, over 70,000 cubic metres of concrete have been produced by our on-site batching plant and laid on site. |
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