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£9m project at airport completed

Fri, 01 Oct 2021

A £9 million project to strengthen and resurface large areas of the taxiway, aircraft parking stands and cross runway at Isle of Man Airport has been completed.

More than 45,000 hours were worked during the project which took place over two phases.

It delivered 500 square metres of high strength concrete along with 70,000 square metres of surfacing, and used 20,000 tons of aggregate from Poortown Quarry.

The first phase was undertaken by Colas (IoM) Ltd between October 2019 and March 2020. The contractor successfully replaced the time-expired existing asphalt surface on aircraft parking stands 7 and 8 with high strength concrete, to support the 97-ton weight of an easyJet Airbus A321.

The second phase was initially delayed from 2020 due to the pandemic, but once work commenced in spring 2021 the contract was delivered ahead of programme and within budget, between March and September.

Work involved the strengthening and resurfacing of the short cross runway and the main taxiway parallel with the main runway, along with widening the starter strips at each end of the main runway and other small resurfacing and repair works. Runway and taxiway lighting renewal included the installation of LED lighting on the cross runway.

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