Airfield Improvement Works
UPDATE: 3 DECEMBER 2024, 4pm - SITE PLAN
OVERVIEW
Of all the assets at airports, airfield pavements are amongst the most critical.
With pavements dating back to the 1930s and 1940s, a pavement asset management plan is imperative to manage complex and costly ongoing maintenance at Essendon Fields Airport.
Essendon Fields is investing several million dollars into this safety-critical plan, ensuring our runways, taxiways and aprons remain in a sound condition to support operation well into the future.
Throughout these projects, Essendon Fields is working closely with regulators and industry to ensure impacts on operations have been considered, and works are carried out in a safe and timely manner.
We thank all aviation customers for their cooperation as we deliver the Pavement Asset Management Plan, which continues to provide a safe and viable Airport for our community.
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TIMING
This is an ongoing major investment project, with individual project works scheduled throughout the year to support the wider project plan. Works will be planned and staged as required to minimise impact on airport users.
LOCATION
Project works will take place across Essendon Fields Airport’s runways, taxiways and aprons.
COMMUNICATION
Affected users will be issued a detailed Method of Working Plan (MOWP) ahead of each stage providing details of the project scope, timing and operational impacts. NOTAMs will be issued as required.
MANAGING CONSTRUCTION
All projects undertaken at Essendon Fields are undertaken with strict safety and compliance measures under the MOWP, in full coordination with relevant authorities.
PROJECT UPDATE | TAXIWAY DELTA ASPHALT REPLACEMENT
In January 2025, approximately 850m2 of asphalt pavement will be replaced along a 54m section of Taxiway Delta.
This project includes the temporary removal and subsequent reinstatement of taxiway lighting to facilitate removal of the existing asphalt layer back to the concrete base, and surface preparation to apply a new 40mm new asphalt layer.
These works are scheduled to occur daily Monday to Friday from 0600 to 1700 local time, advised to affected operators via a Method of Working Plan. During these works Taxiway Delta, between Taxiway Romeo and Taxiway Echo will be unavailable for aircraft operations. The actual date and time of commencement will be advised by a NOTAM, to be issued not less than 48 hours before work commences.
We thank our airport operators for their understanding as we compete this important asphalt upgrade.
PROJECT UPDATE | TERMINAL APRON CRACK SEALING PROJECT
The Airport comprises almost 60,000 lineal metres of concrete joints across the airfield, and sealing those joints is an important part of keeping the pavement subgrade free of water, which overtime can lead to pavement fault.
In late 2022 over 8,400 lineal metres of joints were resealed on the Essendon Fields Airport Terminal Apron, an investment of a quarter of a million dollars. Airport Operations Manager John Nahyna explains more about this process via the video below.
PROJECT UPDATE | RUNWAY 17/35 PAVEMENT SURFACE TREATMENT
An important part of the wider pavement asset management plan is a surface enrichment and rejuvenation treatment to the existing north-south runway, carried out in March 2023. In order to deliver these works, temporary runway closures were carefully managed, with work occurring over three stages.
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