“The new unrestricted air carrier runway is an attempt to cut these delays by half.”Ī new FAA air traffic control tower was also constructed to provide a clear line-of-sight to the new runway complex. Other contractors involved in the project include: Allied RMC (Atlanta, Georgia), who had a concrete batch operating on the site to provide concrete walls more than 3ft thick on which the high-strength beams rest Pioneer Concrete Pumping (Smyrna, Georgia), who provided pumps for the concrete 5R Contractors (a consortium of CW Matthews Contracting Company, APAC-Georgia and Thrasher Trucking Company), who won the $350m earthmoving contract and Yancey Brothers Company (Atlanta, Georgia) who provided servicing and maintenance for the earthmoving equipment. The other companies in the JV are DMJM Aviation, Thacker Operating Company, Louis Berger and Associates and Luster CM Incorporated. Bovis Lend Lease is the senior company of a joint-venture team (Hartsfield-Jackson Construction Management), which managed the overall construction of the £1.2bn runway. The contractor for this section of the runway was Archer Western Contractor Limited, who also constructed a parallel 137m-wide taxiway bridge about 61m from the main runway. The bridge will be able to withstand a load of up to 606,271t, which is slightly more than the weight of wide-bodied Boeing 747s and the Airbus A380. Most aircraft will touch down before they cross the bridged section, but some smaller aircraft are likely to make contact with the ground directly on top of the road tunnel. Linking the two sections is a $159m bridge, 3,640m long and 152m wide. Runway 10-28 also crosses over ten traffic lands of Interstate 285, with two-thirds of the runway pavement on the west side and the remainder across the road on the east. The runway is designed to be able to accommodate CAT III operations (takeoffs and landings in all weather conditions). It has a full-length parallel taxiway and dual north-south taxiways to connect to the existing airfield.
The runway is located 4,200ft south of the airport’s southernmost runway, 9R-27L. The fifth runway is expected to increase the capacity for landings and takeoffs by 40%, from an average of 184 flights an hour to 237 flights an hour.
“Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is one of the most delay-impacted airports in the United States.”Ĭosting $1.28bn, the 9,000ft runway is the first addition to the Atlanta airport since 1984. It bridges Interstate 285 (the perimeter) on the south side of the airport. The new unrestricted air carrier runway is an attempt to cut these delays by half. Statistics show that Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is one of the most delay-impacted airports in the United States. The new south international terminal will be completed in 2011 and the south gate complex will be completed in 2015. The hold baggage screening rooms and fifth runway extension were completed in 2006. Improvements to the Central Passenger Terminal Complex (CPTC).New consolidated rental car facility (CONRAC).Expansion of the east international terminal.Harper Partners Incorporated, Heery International, SDG Associates, Matrix 3D and Richard and Wittschiebe Architects are the companies that make up the architectural and engineering team overseeing the HDP. The City of Atlanta selected law firms Kilpatrick Stockton and Johnson and Freeman to assist the Law Department on legal matters relating to the airport expansion. The estimated cost of the programme also increased to more than $6bn. Due to cost and time overruns the program was extended and the last date for completion of the projects under the new Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is 2015.
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