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Sunday, June 13, 2010 |
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Airport Runway completed to international aviation standards
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Source: Robert Turner
The 3.6km long, 45m wide Sikhupe International Airport runway will be completed towards the middle of May 2010. The project is being undertaken in joint venture with a local Swaziland company Kukhanya (Pty) Ltd. Johan Hartingh from PH Bagale is our specialist engineer for the project on the asphalt mix designs.
The Stefanutti Stocks surfacing team started on site in November 2009, with the asphalting team arriving in early January. This was the maiden project for the new fully mobile, 120 ton per hour continuous flow asphalt plant, and by the end of February 25 000 ton of asphalt had already been laid. The quantities on the project include 25 000 ton of continuous grade medium, 25 000 ton of AE2 asphalt mix and 16 000 ton of BRASO.
The final layer on the runway is a BRASO (bitumen rubber asphalt semi-open) overlay, the same asphalt mix prescribe by SANRAL on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (N1, N3 and N12).
”The BRASO layer will be paved in tandem as required by major international airports and our project engineers, ARCUS GIBB” says Robert Turner from Stefanutti Stocks. “There are not very many companies who use this mix, and we are pleased to have it in our armoury.”
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