b'72 DFW RUNWAYSdesigner to work together to develop an alternative mix design that helped avoid schedule delays.A keen awareness of other projects, especially the lighting vault, was also important to minimizing impacts on airline schedules at the busy airport. Understanding how our project fits into the overall program at DFWKARA BYMERSwas extremely important, says Kara Bymers, project director, AtkinsRealis. During design and construction, teams coordinated extensively to ensure that projects were not impeding each other. Our success is their success and vice versa, Bymers notes.Communication among team members helped keep the project on task and on time through all of the challenges, saysBy processing old runway concrete at its own materials management Charkas. It was extremely challenging, but most important is thesite, the airport reduced the need to truck in new material. advantage that we took by having all parties at the table and the buy-in to open the runway and redeploy the asset in record time.crushed concrete was processed on-site for re-use in various airport projects, including in the new subbase for the shoulders Environmental Considerations on Runway 17R-35L. Having that in our backyard played a Recycling old concrete removed from the runway keel fit withbig element in our success, Charkas notes. We didnt have to DFWs system-wide commitment to sustainability. Thanks totravel across townit was our own, and that helped us from a its East Materials Management Site, 330,000 cubic yards ofsustainability point that we didnt send debris to the landfill.SCAN TO BOOST EFFICIENCY AMID CHECK OUTOUR FULL LINE WORKFORCE CHALLENGES OF AIRPORTPRODUCTSPREMIUM PRODUCTS, IMPROVED EFFICIENCY, LESS MAINTENANCE/DOWNTIME Graco Line Striper Low Profile Barricade No Tools NeededRunway Closure Markers800.525.8876 | WWW.SHERWININDUSTRIES.COMContract # 110122-SWNJanuary | February 2025AirportImprovement.com'