As the main international airport servicing Spain and the largest airport in Europe, Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD) handled over 53 million passengers and had over 387,000 aircraft movements throughout 2017. With the high volume of people and aircrafts traveling in and out of the airport each day, it is vital that MAD operates efficiently to prevent closures and delays of runways and taxiways. These can be caused by many factors, but typical methods of outdoor operations to control for erosion, FOD, wildlife mitigation, and visual enhancement are not cost effective and require consistent maintenance that can often result in shutdowns.
In 2009 Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport elected to transform its runway and taxiways with the addition of artificial grass from AvTurf. Tested and approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AvTurf is a trusted surfacing solution with proven technology to withstand impact from jet blasts and enhance drainage of runoff water. The synthetic turf system also remains vivid throughout the year, regardless of the weather, to vastly improve visual recognition.
AvTurf has served Madrid–Barajas to advance the airport’s safety and operational effectiveness.
Due to AvTurf’s reputation as a premier safety surface for aviation, and its ability to demonstrate such assertion, it has been successfully installed across the globe in some of the largest and busiest airports.
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