Runway resurfacing costs?

[jetjr]

Local council has just spent $300K resurfacing one runway and because of estimated $250K is planning on "deactivating" the other rather than spend the dollars.

 

What should it cost per m2 and how to lobby backward thinking councils

 

IMO theres not much wrong with the runways BEFORE they are resurfaced???

 

 

[68volksy]

$300k is a lot more than a simple resurfacing by the sound of it. Brand new 8m wide bitumen road generally around the $300k per kilometre mark. A lot of the runways built in the 30's and 40's were a bit of a rush job in my understanding. Goulburn spent around that as when they tried to lay the 8metre wide new surface it gave a little - turned out to be next to no foundations in the middle of the strip. Ends of the strip were reinforced but the middle was a bit of a rush job in the pre-war era from the sound of it. Massive amount of earthwork then required.

 

Can't help with how to change the mind of backwards Councillors - Goulburn Council's gone and sold theirs after 16 years of hard battle.

 

The deactivation idea sounds like the kind of thing that would have come up during a CASA inspection maybe - if the airport is a registered airport it has to meet CASA standards. Simple idea could be to lower the registration of the airport - there are several lower standards. Unfortunately as the owner of the airport the Council has final say on the level of liability they're willing to accept.

 

 

[Yenn]

Easy to go through that sor of money if you are using hot mix, which a lot of airports do now. Initial cost is high but ongoing maintenance is less.

 

 

[damkia]

Methinks there may be more money in the land as industrial real estate that there is as a runway.....

 

This would be the first place I would be snooping around. Try the State Govt lands regulator (development applications), or even a FOI request for the report from CASA to see what is going on. RAA may be able to assist in a formal way to get the required information with the required permissions.