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Highlands & Islands Airports Ltd (HIA) wishes to appoint a suitably experienced Airfield Pavement Contractor to undertake the surfacing works in connection with the runway refurbishment at Campbeltown Airport, Machrihanish, Approx value £600,000.00-660,000.00

The works will generally involve the following:

1. Establish a Compound Area.

2. Production and laying trials.

3. Plane-off nominal depth of existing surfacing layer over 1800m length, full width of runway 11/29.

4. Carry out patch repairs as required.

5. Provide and apply bitumen emulsion course textured slurry.

6. Install new pavement markings on runway 11/29 in accordance with CAP168.

7. Associated repairs to the surface water drainage system.

8. De-lethalisation works



NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov. ... ?ID=216230.

Tell us more about the 'de-lethalisation works'!!

WC1 sounds worse than it actually is.

It basically means that you have to protect all clean edges and surfaces from doing damage to an aircraft should it run off the runway within the defined cleared and graded area of the runway strip.

Example would be a concrete base for a runway light, normally you would put soil round it, with delathalisation you have to protect the surface from doing damage by ramping an area of between 1.5m-3m away from it by either compacting stone or indeed ramping the concrete itself so the aircraft theoretically would run over it rather than it hit the concrete and rip an undercarriage leg off causing a worse accident.

"De-lethalisation" ! That is going on my list of favourite words. What a cracker.

Look out for the de-lethalisers - they're on their way....


4.1.1 Name and Address of successful supplier, contractor or service provider

Eurovia Infrastructure Ltd
Albion House, Springfield Road,
Horsham Postal Code:
RH12 2RW Country:
UK
Internet Address (URL): www.eurovia.co.uk

Estimated Total Value
582,729 GBP


5.3 Number of tenders received
4