Runway Renovation

Written by Jerry Nielsen on July 30, 2008 – 11:23 am - 853 views

Wow! The runway renovation is done. Following are video and a few pictures of the activities that have taken place in the last two days to give us a new beautifully refinished runway, taxiways, and pits.

Here’s a brief video look at the work being done by the paving crew on Monday and Tuesday

Following are some pictures showing the process they followed to complete the job.

First, there were some really big cracks in the runways that needed special treatment. They trenched it out to a depth of 3″ and sprayed it with oil to help the asphalt to adhere.
	As you can see, there were a number of these big cracks to fill.
The cracks were filled with hot asphalt and then rolled by a roller.
	Before the slurry coat was layed down, all the smaller cracks were filled with a rubber filler.
When all the cracks were filled, the slurry waas applied and spread by this machine.
The first slurry coat. Jim had them lay down a second coat on at least some parts of the runway (maybe even all of it) to make it even smoother.
	Every big job benefits from supervision.
After the slurry coat was applied, Ken Meade walked the entire perimeter of the newly coated surfaces and applied an herbicide to keep the grass and weeds from encroaching.