{"id":19837,"date":"2022-04-15T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=19837"},"modified":"2022-04-15T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T06:00:04","slug":"adani-ahmedabad-airport-sets-record-in-runway-recarpeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/15\/adani-ahmedabad-airport-sets-record-in-runway-recarpeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Adani -Ahmedabad airport sets record in runway recarpeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Adani Group&#8217;s Ahmedabad airport has finished recarpeting work on its <strong>3.5-kilometer-long runway<\/strong> in a world-record span of 75 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">The firm said in a statement that this duration is the best among brownfield runways in India. \n\n\"In the pre-covid period, Ahmedabad's SVPIA is Gujarat's busiest airport, with over 200 flights per day.\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <strong>Adani Airport Holdings Ltd <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aahl.com\"><strong>(AAHL<\/strong>)<\/a> overcame the challenge of recarpeting the runway without disrupting scheduled flights by employing only nine hours of NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) every day. <\/p><p>SVPIA kept the runway open everyday for 160 flights on average during the remaining. 15 hours of the day throughout the 75 days it required to finish the project,&#8221; it stated. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1280x720_1312412-adani-group-ahmedabad-airport-redcarpet-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"Adani Group's Ahmedabad airport has finished recarpeting work on its 3.5-km-long runway in a world-record span of 75 days.\" class=\"wp-image-19838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1280x720_1312412-adani-group-ahmedabad-airport-redcarpet-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1280x720_1312412-adani-group-ahmedabad-airport-redcarpet-600x338.webp 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1280x720_1312412-adani-group-ahmedabad-airport-redcarpet-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1280x720_1312412-adani-group-ahmedabad-airport-redcarpet-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1280x720_1312412-adani-group-ahmedabad-airport-redcarpet-750x422.webp 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1280x720_1312412-adani-group-ahmedabad-airport-redcarpet-1140x641.webp 1140w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1280x720_1312412-adani-group-ahmedabad-airport-redcarpet.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The amount of asphalt required for the recarpeting was enough to cover a 200-kilometer stretch of roa.  While the concrete used for the runway drainage system was enough to support a <strong>40-story building. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project was<strong> originally scheduled to last 200 working days<\/strong>, beginning on November 10, 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;However, the Adani Group had revised the objective to 90 days by adding resources, in keeping with the brand&#8217;s continuing <strong>effort to increase operational efficiency and minimise passenger discomfort<\/strong>.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"930\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Airport-runway-work-completed-930x527-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Airport-runway-work-completed-930x527-3.jpg 930w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Airport-runway-work-completed-930x527-3-600x340.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Airport-runway-work-completed-930x527-3-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Airport-runway-work-completed-930x527-3-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Airport-runway-work-completed-930x527-3-750x425.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following that, the project team from SVPIA finished the work in just 75 days. The project required 1 million safe manhours and 600 people, including staff and workers, as well as over 200 advanced pieces of equipment, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<em>In addition to other improvements made at SVPIA, the airport now has a comprehensive <strong>airfield lighting system<\/strong> in the runway<\/em>. A<em>nd associated taxiways that is equivalent to lighting an entire district of <strong>12 to 14 villages,&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>the statement continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Connected with Aviation a2z!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adani Group&#8217;s Ahmedabad airport has finished recarpeting work on its 3.5-km-long runway in a world-record span of 75 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,6761],"tags":[1827,5706,5702,5701,5705,5703,5704],"class_list":{"0":"post-19837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"tag-adani","10":"tag-adani-aviation-news","11":"tag-ahmedabad-airport-2","12":"tag-aviationa2z-news","13":"tag-recarpeting-in-75-days","14":"tag-runway-recarpeting","15":"tag-world-record"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19841,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions\/19841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}