OREANDA-NEWS. Specialists from Transstroymekhanizatsiya LLC, a subsidiary of PJSC Mostotrest, have completed construction and installation work on the reconstruction of the runway at the Rostov-on-Don airport under tight deadlines. All stages of the reconstruction were completed while the airport was functioning. OJSC Rostovaeroinvest acted as the customer for the project.

The work started on April 1, 2015. Within the scope of the project, the company carried out repairs and reinforcement of the airport runway coating (2,500m in length and 45 m in width), the reconstruction of taxiways and shoulders, the expansion of runway overruns, replacement of lighting equipment, etc. in 2 months.

The execution of this project was unique, since the reconstruction was completed by setting up “windows” (from 8.30am to 8.00pm daily) without closing the airport. In order to do this, the company agreed on a minute-by-minute schedule for reconstruction with the customer and airport management. In order to keep to the schedule, all machines, mechanisms and transport were 100% backed up, making immediate replacement possible in case of malfunction.

Moreover, in order to keep to the tight construction deadlines, two mobile asphalt concrete factories with total capacity of 560 tons per hour were launched at the airport. The concrete mixes used during construction and measures taken for packing and sealing the mixes allowed the airport to resume takeoffs and landings 3 hours after the end of the work shift.

The carrying capacity of the runway was increased significantly after the reconstruction project was completed. The airport is now capable of receiving heavy aircraft such as Boeing 737-800, А-320 and others.

Transstroymekhanizatsiya LLC is a leader in the field of construction and reconstruction of airport infrastructure and has extensive experience in construction and installation works on airports in Gelendzhik, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vladivostok, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Saratov, Ufa, and Nizhny Novgorod. Transstroymekhanizatsiya is currently working on the creation of new airfield facilities of the airport complex "South" in the Rostov region, which will be put into operation for the World Cup in 2018 and will replace the existing Rostov-on-Don airport in the future. The facility is to be commissioned in late 2017.

Transstroymekhanizatsiya (TSM) is a Mostotrest subsidiary specialized in construction and renovation of transport infrastructure, including automobile roads and airports. The company operates in the Central, Southern and Far Eastern Federal Districts of Russia. TSM is involved in construction of the Moscow-St Petersburg Highway and renovation of the M-11 “Narva” Highway. TSM is currently carrying out renovation of Sheremetyevo, Saratov, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, and Nizhny Novgorod airports, as well as construction and renovation of the M-4 “Don”, M-9 “Baltic” and M-10 “Russia” highways.

Mostotrest is a major, diversified infrastructure construction company, with established presence in all core and related market segments, and a participant in Russia’s first public-private partnership projects. According to EMBS Group, an independent industry consultancy, in 2014 Mostotrest held a 13.4% share of the total Russian transport infrastructure construction market.

Mostotrest’s core competences include construction and reconstruction of bridges, roads and other transport infrastructure facilities; provision of road maintenance, repair and operating services. In 2012, Mostotrest also entered a new segment: management of road concessions.

The company was established in 1930 as a developer of complex and oversized bridges.

Mostotrest is currently participating in implementation of a number of complex transport infrastructure development projects, such as construction of the Section 4 (km 208 – km 258) and Section 6 (km 334 – km 543) of the M-11 “Moscow – St Petersburg” Toll Highway, construction and reconstruction of the M-4 “Don”, M-9 “Baltic” and M-11 “Narva” highways, construction of Businovskaya Interchange in Moscow, Bor Bridge in Nizhny Novgorod and Voroshilovsky Bridge in Rostov-on-Don.