Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 3’s Apron, Taxiway, and Apron Facility Project recently won the Concrete Engineering Award of Excellence from the Taiwan Concrete Institute, Taoyuan International Airport Corp (TIAC) said yesterday.
Huang Chun-tian (黃春田), director of the airport company’s engineering department, accepted the award at a ceremony.
The project includes integration and phased relocation of existing roads and utility pipelines on land surrounding the terminal, as well as the building of new aprons, taxiways and apron facilities at the nation’s largest international airport, the company said.
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The challenge was to execute the construction in an operating airport, TIAC said, adding that it reviewed and optimized the construction operations, including by making 22 changes in restricted areas.
For the construction, the company coordinated with air traffic control to avoid affecting operations during peak operating hours.
A total of 148 meetings were held to achieve a balance between airport operations and ongoing construction works, it said.
The concrete project is the most important part of the construction, as the apron and taxiway of this project cover an area of 42 hectares, the company said.
To maintain airport operations, the construction team faced the challenge of operating at restricted construction sites, the company said, adding that the team must also prevent salt damage to the concrete.
“We strictly control the quality of materials and use high-precision testing to ensure that the roadbed strength meets the requirement of the design. The pavement design integrates innovation, and the completed surfaces of the sections are evenly arranged and neatly divided. To ensure the quality of the pavement, we developed machine tools to handle load tests,” the company said.
The project used a total of 165,771m3 of flexural concrete, 94,756m3 of structural concrete, and 48,071 tonnes of fly ash and furnace stone powder for the construction of aprons, taxiways, tunnel culverts and box culverts of flood detention pond, irrigation and drainage diversions, the company said.
The innovative design uses durable materials and meets a high standard of concrete quality, it said.
A sustainable development of the airport was also taken into consideration when enforcing this project, the company said.
As such, the construction team completed the passenger transport box culvert in the apron section in advance, installed a detention pond under the apron and relocated agricultural irrigation canals, it said.
“This would help reduce secondary construction and the impact on airport operations in the future, and at the same time save energy and reduce carbon,” the company said.
Meanwhile, this project plans to add 21 bridge aprons, six remote aprons and related infrastructure to the third terminal.
So far, 19 aprons have been completed ahead of schedule and delivered for use to optimize the scheduling flexibility of the airport’s airside parking spaces, the company said.
As of August, 13,411 aircraft had parked on the newly built aprons, the company said.
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