Recycled Runway

Garver saved the Nashville International Airport millions of dollars with a progressive concrete recycling method that reused pavement to remake its primary runway. By opting for this plan over traditional runway reconstruction, the airport authority avoided the removal and breaking of deficient concrete, and hauling to a landfill. Instead, concrete was crushed and screened on-site, and then the aggregate was placed as a base on which the new runway was constructed. Garver provided planning, design, budding and construction support to rehabilitate the runway in a project that included 35-foot-wide asphalt shoulders, full-length in-pavement centerline lights, approach lights, drainage work, stormwater management, airfield signs, erosion and sediment control, and pavement markings.