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Ottawa airport completes runway reconstruction

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Ottawa International Airport.

Published on August 17, 2012; Published on August 17, 2012
OBJ Staff

Traffic on the Ottawa International Airport's Runway 07/25 will flow again Saturday after the runway was completed early and under budget, the airport announced.

Topics :: R.W. Tomlinson , Ottawa

The airport said general contractor R.W. Tomlinson Ltd., prime subcontractor Black & McDonald, and other companies on the project worked 16-hour days for six days a week for most of the construction duration.

"From installing a temporary asphalt plant on-site, to careful project management, our construction partners did a fantastic job and we now have a new runway that will serve our community for several decades," stated Ottawa International Airport Authority CEO Paul Benoit.

The budgeted $14 million project was paid for out of proceeds from the airport's improvement fee. Runway 07/25 was last resurfaced in 1994, when Transport Canada managed the airport.

The reconstructed runway exceeds standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the United States Federal Aviation Authority, the airport stated.

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John F. leslie

- August 18, 2012 at 11:38:00

The Airport Authority should be congratulated. on the early completion of the runway and under budget. It seems to me that the Airport Authority has a long track record of such project. achievements. It's too bad that the Province of Ontario and the City of Ottawa could not be run in a similar manner.

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- Lyndon Raymond
  
  - August 31, 2012 at 16:23:54
  
  There is no mystery here. When you levy the exorbitant passenger improvement fees airports charge these days, you can get just about any project completed the way you want. 14 million seems high for a 7000 ft strip of asphalt....

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