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Warsaw Airport Airfield Rehabilitation

The airfield pavements at Warsaw Airport were built 25 to 30 years ago and despite extensive maintenance have generally reached the end of their design life. In addition, a number of key parameters including crossfall and longitudinal profile do not comply with ICAO design regulations. This non-compliance is to be remedied during the rehabilitation of the pavements.

The aim of the project is to develop a concept which allows for the rehabilitation of both runways, a number of taxiways as well as the associated service roads without causing significant disruption to flight operations.

The first project phase has resulted in the assessment of alternatives to resurface and reconstruct the pavements cost effectively and achieve a future design life of 20 years. At the same time, improvements to comply with the ICAO guidelines were also investigated. A decision matrix in terms of technical, economical, operational and environmental aspects was developed to allow a recommendation to be made in an official presentation to the Airport Authority.

The preferred concept for the runways recommends an improvement of the bearing capacity and slopes using varying thicknesses of asphalt overlay combined with plastic mesh reinforcement. The ends of the runways are to be completely reconstructed as concrete pavements. The rehabilitation of the taxiways is to be carried out in a similar way to the runways. An important part of the concept is the operational plan for the construction phase using night works, displacement of the thresholds and planned runway closures to minimise disruption to aircraft operations.

Further services include the planning application, the final design and the tender documents for contract award. During the construction period, ILF will also provide technical assistance.