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The Civil Engineering Department, consisting of Civil and Structural
Engineers, undertakes structural design of passenger and cargo terminals,
aircraft hangars, runways and other pavements, technical buildings for
installation of airport ground aids etc. for AAI's in-house requirements and
consultancy projects. To ensure timely completion of projects, without cost
overrun, the department adopts its proven technique of deputing a Project
In-charge for each of the projects undertaken, within the organization and on
consultancy basis, with adequate delegated powers.
The department is facilitated by in-house soil and material testing laboratory
and the R&D Unit which have rendered valuable work on engineering
especially in utilization of locally available material, adoption of new
techniques for pavement design and pavement evaluation etc. The safety aspects
of aircraft operations like maintenance of friction level of runway and riding
quality of runway surface are also ensured by the Civil Engineering
Department.
The project management teams, under the Project In-charges carry out the bulk
of activities including project monitoring, contract management and quality
control. The department has proven track record in successfully completing
major projects undertaken by AAI at international level, under difficult
logistics and varying climatic conditions prevailing at project's sites and
also during the construction of strategically important airports in India like
the airport at 'Agatti' in the Lakshwadeep islands and the airport at Leh at
10,683 ft. AMSL. AAI has successfully completed the New Terminal Building
Project at Jaipur, Udaipur, Srinagar, Dehradun, Cooch Behar, Gaya, Dibrugarh,
Nagpur, Aurangabad, Pune, Calicut, Vizag, Trichy, and Mangalore. New Terminal
Building projects are under construction at Varanasi, Lucknow, Barapani,
Ranchi, Raipur, Madurai, Mysore, Coimbatore, Ahmedabad, Bhopal and Indore. A
new greenfield airport at Pakyong, which became the only airport in the State
of Sikkim, is coming up with latest terramesh/green terramesh technology where
the height of cut/fill is up to 50 meter. Planning for new green field airports
at Cheithu, Itanagar to handle ATR-72 type of aircraft with ILS facility is in
progress.
A separate wing under the Civil Engineering Department normally looks after the
day to day maintenance requirements of the civil engineering aspects of airport
management and operations.
The Civil Engineering Department of AAI is not only capable but willing to
accept any challenge in the field of airport civil engineering to add
additional feathers in its cap.
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