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AIRPORTFeature!
Keeping the Airport
ahead!
by DAVID MASON & DR. DAVID TISDALE
PROJECTS DIRECTOR & ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Capita Symonds (CI) Ltd
Capita Symonds (CI) Ltd have been actively working in Fire Training Ground Assessment, a remediation
the Channel Islands for the last 8 years supporting the The old Fire Training strategy and new facility
development at Jersey Airport as well as assisting other Ground (FTG) at the designed to address the
public and private sector clients. Our association with airport was a potential issues of potential
Jersey Airport started in 1999 when David Mason source of pollution to pollution and provide a
(Projects Director) moved to Jersey from the £72m groundwater from the use modern facility that would
redevelopment of Luton Airport (UK) to manage the of fuel for burning and significantly reduce the
delivery of the Alpha Taxiway Realignment project for foam compounds used to impact on the
Jersey Airport. Since then we have worked closely with extinguish training rig environment. The FTG
the Airport on a number of civil engineering projects, as fires. The FTG lies on a was cleared and capped
well as reviewing the 2023 Masterplan and the updating headland overlooking St with an impermeable
of the Airport Environmental Strategy in 2005. Ouen’s Bay, an area membrane and the
designated as of scientific headland contours re-
Alpha Taxiway interest and natural established around the
The Alpha Taxiway project was carried out to achieve beauty. Capita Symonds site boundary to help
compliant separation distances between the runway and led the team that screen the FTG from St
principal taxiway. The old taxiway, which was beyond its submitted the Planning Ouen’s Bay. The design
economic life, was removed and a new taxiway application, which team created an
constructed to the south of the old alignment. This work included an Environmental
involved the realignment of the airport road and the Impact
relocation eastwards of the Aero Club, which required the
demolition of the old facility and the
construction of new
modern facility to
support private aircraft
owners. In addition to
the civil engineering
works, a bespoke water
treatment facility
comprising aeration pond
and reed beds was
constructed to collect and
treat drainage from the
new taxiway to address
the issue of de-icing
solutions and prevent these
compounds reaching the
surface water courses down
stream of the drainage outlet.
This project was completed
on programme and
approximately £1M under
budget.
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