Project Data
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Type: Airport Infrastructure
Client: Aena
Budget: 25,926,533.72 €.
Date: 2016
Services performed:
- Removal of obstacles within the runway strip and RESAs.
- Correction, as far as possible, of non-compliances in runway and RESA grading (those published in the AIP at the time of project drafting). Remaining grading deficiencies in the strip area were addressed under a separate contract.
- Surface improvement of the runway pavement through regeneration of the wearing course and, where necessary, the intermediate layer.
- Enhancement of bearing capacity in those runway and exit-lane areas where the PCN was below the level required for projected traffic over the next 20 years.
- Adaptation of exit R1 as a rapid-exit taxiway.
- Correction of the non-compliance related to the spacing between the runway and the taxiway centreline lighting.
- Replacement of all runway lights on Runway 07L–25R with LED units.
- Relocation of the runway distance marker bars on Runway 07L–25R to 80 m from the runway centreline.
Project Description
Barcelona Airport is the second busiest airport in Spain. In 2024 alone, it handled over 55 million passengers, with an increase of 10.27% compared with 2023, and processed 181,688 tonnes of cargo. A total of 347,977 flights were operated, and the airport currently has a capacity of up to 90 operations per hour.
The purpose of this project was to address asphalt cracking (both transverse and longitudinal), loss of adhesion between asphalt layers, insufficient pavement bearing capacity, and general ageing of the wearing course, including the loss of fines and discolouration.
Additionally, the project included the renewal of the airfield lighting system with LED technology, correction of ICAO Annex 14 non-compliances and overall upgrading of the infrastructure to improve airport operability and safety
Highlights
1,518 lighting units installed
43,713 m3 of earthworks and grading
395km of primary cabling
365 km of secondary cabling
13,437.74 m² of airfield markings
1,884,900.62 m² of hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavement

