CPB Contractors has completed construction of the first major piece of Sydney’s new 24-hour airport
The Airside Civil and Pavement works package at Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Wilton) Airport (WSI) has been completed by CPB Contractors, marking the official certification of the airport’s runway and other key airside facilities.
One of five works packages CPB Contractors has been contracted to deliver at WSI, the Airside Civil and Pavement works package is equipped with modern technology and rapid exit taxiways.
Works involved transforming the site to build a 3.7km runway, equipped with approximately 3,000 aeronautical ground lights and 248 high intensity approach lights, which will cater for up to 10 million annual passengers from day one of operations in 2026.
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The Airside Civil and Pavement Works Package also involved the design and construction of the taxiway pavements, aircrafts pavement markings, airside roads, surface water drainage, airside security fence and landscaping.
“Successful delivery of the ACP project required millions of tonnes of high quality, high strength, quarry materials to be sourced and imported into the site, then processed and placed in the aircraft pavement areas, to construct the aviation pavements to strict FAA specifications, which took an enormous effort from a large team,” CPB Contractors project director Christian Byrne says.
“The aircraft pavements were constructed with an excellent team culture and commitment to working safely. We developed and delivered an Australian-first paving methodology of ‘true-slip forming’ the concrete aircraft pavements – improving productivity and safety.”
CPB Contractors in a joint venture with Acciona led the works on the Airside Civil and Pavement works package at Western Sydney Airport.