Asphalt Pavement Magazine - May/June 2013 - (Page 32)
Smooth Landings at
Austin Executive Airport
Specia
Sectionl
:
NAPA
Award
s
J.D. Ramming Paving takes 2012 Ray Brown Award for runway overlay
NAPA 2012 Chairman Kurt Bechthold
(left) presents the Ray Brown Award
to J.D. Ramming Paving’s David
Fuller, Vice President Field Operations;
Chuck Fuller, President; and
Ben Carroll, Operations Manager.
By Mary Lou Jay
A
n airport designed to attract private jets
cannot afford a bumpy runway. In 2009,
subsoil problems left Austin Executive
Airport with a new runway that was
unusable before the airport had even
opened, but by opening day the airport had the highest
quality airport pavement in the county.
J.D. Ramming Paving Co. LLC of Austin, Texas, won
the 2012 Ray Brown Airport Pavement Award for the
overlay of Runway 13/31 at Austin Executive Airport, a
general aviation airport serving corporate traffic to the
Texas capital.
Named for the long-time director of the National
Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University, the
Ray Brown Airport Pavement Award is presented each
year to the highest-rated airport project submitted for
NAPA’s Quality in Construction Awards.
Runway 13/31, the primary runway at the airport,
had been paved by another contractor in 2009, but
movement in the subgrade due to soil problems caused
Runway 13/31 at Austin Executive Airport
bumps and roughness to develop in the pavement before
the airport even opened. Once the underlying problems
were resolved, J.D. Ramming Paving Co. came in to
provide the smooth runway surface that the airport
needed to meet its opening date.
Partnering Approach
The company took a partnering approach on the project
to ensure that the owner would get the runway that it
needed.
“The airport originally specified an asphalt mix
used by the City of Austin, but we went into the prepave meeting and explained how Texas DOT (TxDOT)
partners with contractors on its projects. We wanted
to use a TxDOT mix that used QC/QA specifications,”
said Jimmy Whited, Quality Control Manager for J.D.
Ramming Paving Co. “The advantage to this type of mix
is that the owner actually has a technician at the plant,
testing side by side with our lab technicians while the
material is being produced and placed. That way, if any
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Asphalt Pavement Magazine - May/June 2013
Chairman’s Commentary
Industry News
Meet the Chairman
Vancouver Adds Wax From Recycled Plastics to Warm Mix
Building the Country’s Best
Smooth Landings at Austin Executive Airport
2012 Quality in Construction Awards
Industry Events
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