Airport Reports

www.addtix.com coming together is a beginning; working together is success


Site Report Europe:
London Heathrow
Stable groundwork for 30 million air passengers
London Heathrow Airport was planning the
construction of a new Terminal 5 that would allow
the huge number of 30 million additional air
passengers to check in each year. Before work on
the new building could begin, however, extensive
earthmoving and stabilizing operations needed to
be carried out over an area totalling 750,000 m² to
prevent the new terminal and its concrete
foundations from sinking into the ground.
www.addtix.com
The client’s main stipulation was that the binding
agents used in the stabilizing process – lime and
cement – must be added to the operation without
generating any dust. Depending on weather
conditions, heavy dust clouds may develop when
spreading powdered stabilizing agents ahead of
the recycler, which would have been too great a
hazard for aircraft taking off or landing.
The used combination machines for cold recycling
and soil stabilization were the ideal candidates for
the job. Their integrated material silo and
proportioning hopper are located inside the
machine – a feature permitting them to work in
rain or even storm without leaving clouds of dust
in their wake.
coming together is a beginning; working together is success
Tremendous masses of soil would have had to be
removed, treated and transported back to the job
site, had this stipulation not been met. Assigning
the job to special soil stabilizing machines
dispensed with the need for time-consuming,
expensive transport, enabling the machines to lay
the optimum foundation for the heavy concrete
surface that was to be paved in the next step.
Job site: London Heathrow Airport,
United Kingdom
Project 750,000 m²
size:
 London Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom

www.addtix.com coming together is a beginning; working together is success

Site Report Europe:
Construction of a new runway – Airport Leipzig, Germany

Project data:

 Length: 3.600 m
 Width: 60 m
 5 Mio. m³ of earthmoving (cut and fill)
 Soil stabilization of formation
 Continuous compaction control on formation and subbase
 Stabilization of formation level
 Working depth: 400 mm
 Clayey, silty sandy soil
 Compaction with 26 t pad foot and polygon roller

Compaction requirement and compaction:

 Compaction requirement: 100% Proctor

 Compaction of 400 mm stabilized soil with a special roller at 4 passes
 Operating speed: v= 2-2,5 km/h

www.addtix.com coming together is a beginning; working together is success

 Construction of a new runway – Airport Leipzig, Germany

www.addtix.com coming together is a beginning; working together is success

Site Report Canada:
Runway Run-up Project -
Airport Vancouver, BC
The Challenge
Due to increasing long haul air traffic, the Vancouver
Airport required expansion to their runway systems.
This project included a 1,000 ft. runway extension as
well as a run-up pad that would be used as a bypass
for taxing aircraft and to allow aircraft to do engine
run-ups - running their engines above idle after
maintenance. Due to the noise, this pad is situated as
far away from the community as possible.
www.addtix.com
The Solution
The Vancouver Airport Authority needed a solution that would perform under high volumes
of traffic and heavy loads and also provide impermeable, uniform, and strong support for the
concrete pavement to be constructed over it. A minimum 4.0 MPa cement treated base (CTB)
was chosen as the solution that could meet the demands of the project.
Project Details
 The cement treated base thickness was 300 mm on the runway and taxiway
extension and it was 200 mm on the run-up pad.
 The cement treated base material was mixed in a central mixing plant that was only a
few minutes haul from the construction.
 The portland cement concrete pavement thickness was 380 mm.
 The cement treated base was placed with tandem trucks and then graded and
compacted in place.
 Approximately 11,000 m3 of cement treated base and 17,000 m3 of portland cement
concrete pavement were utilized on this project. Total project area was 63,000 m2.
coming together is a beginning; working together is success
 Runway Run-up Project - Vancouver Airport

www.addtix.com coming together is a beginning; working together is success