Airport Runway Reconstruction
An 11,000 ft primary runway rebuilt in night closures and short weekend windows, without delaying a morning departure.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Southeast
- Market
- Aviation
- Capital value
- $260M
- Size
- 11,000 ft runway
- Delivery
- CM/GC
- Duration
- 30 months
- Completed
- 2025
What was at stake.
The runway could close only at night and during a few longer weekend windows. Every closure had to end with a safe, inspected surface before the first flight. Paving production, lighting and navigation aid work had to fit inside those windows exactly.
How we controlled it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers did on this project.
Closure by closure
Each night closure was planned as its own schedule with production targets, inspection time and reopening checks.
Production tracking
Paving quantities were measured every night against the plan, so a short night was recovered in the next window.
Weather risk
Monte Carlo analysis on weather days showed the owner how many spare windows the program really needed.
Stakeholder look-ahead
Airlines and air traffic control received a two-week closure look-ahead drawn from the updated schedule.
The result.
Every night on a runway is a small project with a hard finish. We planned four hundred of them.
Lead scheduler, AdenTurton
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