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Runway Renovations: Gibraltar and Cyprus

Posted by: John Williams, Posted on: 1 September 2015 - Categories: Cyprus, Gibraltar, Project Management, Runways

However many times you’ve boarded a plane and watched the taxi and take-off out of the window, you’ve probably never given much – if any – thought to the surface of the runway under the plane’s wheels. I can’t say …

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Repairing runways - safety comes first

Posted by: John Cook, Posted on: 27 January 2014 - Categories: Runways, Working at DIO

To many, a runway is a short fat road - to me it is a high-risk business in which safety is paramount. Design parameters, especially on the military side, are wide-ranging, the operational impact of down-time for maintenance is often …

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