Case Study
SUPER 1800-2 Rehabilitates Runway and Landing Strip at Airport in Iceland
SUPER 1800-2 Rehabilitates Runway and Landing Strip at Airport in Iceland NAVITRONIC Plus® saves 18km of tensioned wire. The company operating Akureyri Airport planned an extension with the aim of enticing more tourists to Iceland. To this end, the runway and landing strip had to be lengthened and the existing section rehabilitated so that larger aircraft could also land. In a first step, Icelandic contractor Hladbaer- Colas rehabilitated the old runway. Undulating surface irregularities had developed over the years, and height differences of as much as 20cm needed to be levelled out in the course of the rehabilitation work. Hladbaer-Colas decided to use NAVITRONIC Plus®, the VÖGELE System for 3D Machine Control, in order to achieve as level a surface as possible. With a population of 17,0