Hewanorra International Airport Apron - A Masterpiece In The Making

Part of the Apron

Rain or shine, night and day CIE Ltd is giving the works on the Hewanorra Airport Apron its best shot. Work has been completed on  the reinforced concrete encasing of existing culverts except where SOL have to do their electrical and mechanical part. SOL has not started their part resulting in hindrance of work.  About 50% of the work will be held up because of this.

Reinforced  concrete encasing

Speaking with a SOL representative from the Vieux Fort terminal, he made mention that works are presently going on and that SOL has no time frame in which to finish the works. According to him SOL’s work is to install hydrants below ground which is required to store fuel.

Another section of the Apron

The apron is a busy place; the area at the airport where aircraft are parked and serviced. It’s the part of the airport where vehicles and airplanes share the same space. The many movements on the apron are not generally controlled by the air traffic control tower.

 

Ongoing works on the encasing

Work is continuing on the completion of the sub-base and soon, the  base work will commence. According to the site engineer, Vinay, “The base works need to be done in three compacted layers before starting the asphalt work.” The asphalt work is the final layer

A night shift

There is talk about doing 50% of asphalting and then doing the balance after SOL finishes   its underground works. That means the asphalt may have to be done in two installments. In spite of SOL’s delay work is moving along steadily.

                        Ongoing works on Hewanorra International Airport Apron.