Airport construction work requires a significant amount of project coordination and management, as well as team capabilities and skill. Kolb Grading considers the Lambert St. Louis Airport expansion to be one of the top 6 projects ever produced by their firm.
St. Louis Lambert International Airport - St. Louis, Missouri
The 2002 St. Louis Lambert Airport expansion created additional runways, access and utility capacity. Kolb led the way by clearing and preparing the 8 million cubic yard site, shoring up the new runway foundations with proper controls using 20,000 ton of rock subgrade stabilization, installing cast and place utility structures, installing security mechanisms on those utility structures and hauling off site debris. Environmental services included seeding and mulching 452 acres and providing erosion control for over 600 acres.
Serving as General Contractor to the City of St. Louis, Kolb's involvement in the Lambert St. Louis Airport extension encompassed four distinct projects:
- Grading and paving airport runways 5 and 6
- Airport north and south temporary bypass (Lindbergh Boulevard)
- Storm & sanitary sewer cast in place structures
- Lindbergh Boulevard tunnel backfill
Tasks included in the Lambert project:
- Site clearing and grubbing
- Unsuitable dirt and existing pavement removal and haul
- Excavation
- Demolition
- Rock grade subgrade stabilization
- Erosion control
- Sanitary sewer installation
- 55’ storm sewer cast in place structure
- Security grate installation on utility structures
- Security training and employee badging
- Grading and paving
- Seeding and sodding
Coral Creek Airport - Placida, Florida
The Coral Creek airport expansion included relocating gopher turtles, clearing trees and brush, erosion control measures, grading 200,000 cubic yards of sand and making base out of coral rock saving two million dollars in imported materials. One challenge was that the existing runway had to stay operable during the entire construction phase. The new 1 mile runway project included lighting and striping the tarmac.