Colas puts our know-how into action as a recognized leader in airport infrastructure projects both in Canada and globally. From refurbishing airfield pavement to more complex design and build projects, our companies provide extensive airside capabilities and expertise on all aspects of airport pavement construction.
Airports
Our expertise
As a global leader in aviation infrastructure, Colas companies provide a wide range of comprehensive solutions including:
- Design and execution of airport infrastructure:
Construction, renovation, rehabilitation, extension, widening and resurfacing of runways, taxi-ways, aprons, etc. - Equipment and materials logistics:
Manufacturing and securing construction materials, thanks to a business network across more than 50 countries and a fleet of mobile plants, including in remote locations - Working at live airports:
Procedures developed to ensure that construction activities do not compromise the operational capability of airport assets. Experience within limited airfield possession periods and required timescales. - Ancillary works:
Signal, lighting and marking; water drainage and energy transport.
We have a long history of successfully delivering projects within limited airfield possession periods, and our expertise enables us to provide clients with certainty of delivery within the required timeframes.
Colas has more than 80 years of experience in implementing transport infrastructure projects, including large-scale aviation initiatives. We have worked on some of the largest airports both in Canada and Internationally, including London Gatwick, Paris Orly, Los Angeles, Bangkok, Quebec City, Moncton, Whitehorse, and more.
Our approach
We understand that every project is unique. Colas and our companies in Canada thrive on building tailor-made solutions to meet your specific needs, based on three cornerstones:
- Safety First: We fully understand the challenges and requirements of operating in an airside environment. Our safety policies meet the highest standards of airport security requirements. To ensure such a high level of safety and security, we provide all the resources our teams need. We also train and monitor our teams, along with our selected suppliers and subcontractors
- Reliability: Providing the right resources means that we need to anticipate and overcome any hazards and risks on the project. Our teams, materials, and equipment are always ready, which helps optimize costs and planning.
- Experience: With more than 80 years of project experience around the world, Colas has faced and resolved nearly any issue. Our worldwide network is our wealth and our strength: in all possible configurations and environments, we have built up a practical culture of results.
Why Colas ?
- Expert project management: experienced project managers and specialist in-house airport construction teams mobilized.
- Customized sizing: detailed planning and efficiencies to ensure that the resources mobilized to the work are correctly sized and numbered.
- Cost and planning optimization: a permanent state of readiness to secure the works and develop risk contingencies.
- Quality and durability: compliance with international standards (ICAO), solutions fitting the local environment
- High technical performance: key products and innovative solutions, with support of the Colas Campus for Science and Techniques.
- Energy efficiency: Use of renewable energies, vehicle fleet shifting towards low carbon solutions (electric, green hydrogen, biogas, hybrids, etc).
- Low carbon products, techniques and solutions: cement and low carbon hydraulic binders, reduced temperature of asphalt mixes, in-place recycling.
Achievements
Achievements
Quebec city airport
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