The Geopolymer Institute recently reported on Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport (BWWA), Toowoomba, Queensland, is Australia’s first greenfield public airport to be built in 48 years. BWWA became fully operational with commercial flights operated by Qantas Link in November 2014.
This project marks a very significant milestone in engineering – the world’s largest geopolymer concrete project. BWWA was built with approximately 40,000 m3 (100,000 tons) of geopolymer concrete making it the largest application of this new class of concrete in the world. The geopolymer concrete developed by the company Wagners, known as “Earth-Friendly Concrete” (EFC), was found to be well suited for this construction method due to its high flexural tensile strength, low shrinkage and workability characteristics. Heavy duty geopolymer concrete—435 mm (17 in) thick. The geopolymer concrete aircraft pavements were is used for the taxiways, hangers, aprons, turning nodes, culverts, barriers, road works, sewer tanks, bridge panels for the terminal building,. The airport welcomes a heavy 747 cargo for regular air traffic between Toowoomba-Wellcamp BWWA Airport and Hong Kong.For technical details, read the paper by Glasby et al. (2015), titled “EFC Geopolymer Concrete Aircraft Pavements at Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport”, in the Geopolymer Library, Technical paper #23 GP-AIRPORT. Technical Paper on Geopolymer Aircraft Pavement.
The ‘Community Open Day’ was held on September 28, 2014, at the newly complete Brisbane West Wellcamp airport (BWWA)— where more than 27,000 Queenslanders attended. The airport officially began operation on November 17, 2014.
For the NEWS ARTICLE, titled “70,000 Tonnes Geopolymer Concrete for Airport”, please go to: https://www.geopolymer.org/news/70000-tonnes-geopolymer-concrete-airport/.
For the VIDEO of “Prof. Joseph Davidovits’ visit to the Toowoomba-Wellcamp-Airport”, please click on the video image to the left, or the link above as well.
For the TECHNICAL PAPER titled “#23 Technical Paper on GeopolymerAircraft Pavement”, please go to: https://www.geopolymer.org/library/technical-papers/technical-paper-on-
geopolymer-aircraft-pavement/.
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