Dubai World Airport
Projects: Engineering - Planning & Design | Construction | Operations WSO/ARO
PROJECT SUMMARY
ACG’s Technical director was engaged by Dubai World Airports to undertake a training session on the emerging constraints of new generation aircraft on aircraft pavements. The training session covered pavement design and maintenance requirements.
Project Capital Cost: Advisory role
ROLE
Airport pavement trainer
PROJECT CHALLENGES AND OUTCOMES
The client organisation was seeking to understand the issues at their airport as well as at other leading international airports to asses worlds best practices. The issues assessed were;
- Innovation in Aircraft Pavement Engineering
- New generation high tyre pressures
- Identification of structural failures
- Identification of Environmental failures
- Planning for pavement maintenance
- Pavement repair methodologies
- Expedient pavement repairs
At the end of the training seminar, a site evaluation of Dubai World Airport was undertaken and practical examples of the course content was discussed with reference to the condition of DXB airport.
2017
Dubai World Airport Pavement Trainer
References
Ion Mathew
Project Manager –Dubai Airports
E: Ion.Mathew@dubaiairports.ae
May 2017
Airport pavement trainer
References
Ion Mathew
Project Manager –Dubai Airports
E: Ion.Mathew@dubaiairports.ae