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Mead and Hunt team helps airport accommodate heavier aircraft
Mead & Hunt is the proud recipient of the Asphalt Paving Association's Paving Award. The team designed the plan to reconstruct an aircraft apron surface that strengthened and effectively drains storm water from Klamath Falls Airport's west apron. The award was announced at the annual Oregon Asphalt Conference in Eugene on March 3. Team members included Jon Faucher, PE, Project Manager; Lee Moen, PE, Project Engineer; and Vice President of Airport Engineering; and, Mark Andrews, PE, Resident Engineer. Faucher has been with the firm for 14 years. Moen and Andrews have each been with the firm for three years. They are based out of Mead & Hunt's Santa Rosa, California office.
"The primary benefit is that the strengthened pavement will enable heavier corporate aircrafts to use the reconstructed apron at Klamath Falls," Faucher explains.
The primary goals of the project were to strengthen the apron by removing and replacing the deteriorating asphalt, and solve the drainage problems that plagued the 15-acre apron. With a limited budget, one of the main challenges was working around hangars that were located along the apron.
To strengthen the surface, crews removed most of the asphalt and placed new asphalt lifts with paving fabric between lifts to delay potential reflective cracking. Addressing the drainage problems, they applied a variable depth asphalt leveling course to the area. The process was completed by topping the surface with a two-inch layer of asphalt.
The apron work was part of an ongoing improvement effort Mead & Hunt has led at Klamath Falls Airport, starting in 1982. The firm developed the airport's master plan; designed airfield signing and markings, runway safety area improvements, a medium intensity runway light system (MIRL) on runway 7-25, service road and perimeter fencing. A joint-use civilian air carrier and general aviation airport, Klamath Falls Airport is also home to the Oregon Air National Guard Base.
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