GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) has completed the first phase of the pavement preservation of its main runway, which extends its life for several more years.
The Airport has used a unique and patented Airport Grade Steel Guard (AGSG) technology, which is an asphalt protective coat application designed to preserve and extend the life of existing asphalt pavement surfaces.
This innovative technology has quick-setting feature, which enables the runway to take the load of normal air traffic after 2 hours of application in day-time and 45 mins in between the layers’ application, a GHIAL statement said here.
The first phase of the project has taken care of almost one-third of the runway. During this 6-hour window, all air traffic movement was switched to the secondary runway with absolutely no impact on airport operations.
Hyderabad International Airport had engaged vendors based in Mumbai and the technology implemented is provided by a US based firm. The innovative technology has helped the airport to complete the project in less than 15 days as against the conventional mode of runway preservation, which would have taken more than 3 months to finish, the statement added.
