AvTurf is a synthetic turf system that provides comprehensive ground safety enhancements and erosion control to make airplane takeoffs and landings more effective and efficient. Modern airports around the world face similar hazards that impact their runways and taxiways including foreign object debris (FOD), bird strikes, erosion, drainage, wildlife management and visual recognition concerns. Natural grass ground covers can exacerbate these issues due to unavoidable climatic characteristics and animal inhabitants of the area.
AvTurf combats these threats in airport safety with a durable, attractive, and cost-effective synthetic turf solution that required minimal year-round maintenance. This has been proven through hundreds of quality assurance tests, each that reiterate the fact that AvTurf achieves the highest performance standards of airport ground safety in all critical areas. The assessments of AvTurf include wind tunnel and burn tests to analyze resistance to jet blasts and flammability, drainage tests to prove its ability to accommodate heavy rainfall, load-bearing tests to consider ultra-heavy loads-such as large aircraft emergency response equipment, and ASTM to verify compliance with the FAA Advisory Circular 150/5370-15B.
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 to eliminate specific hazards in some of the largest and busiest airports.
John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is the primary airport serving the New York City area, and the most frequented international air passenger gateway into North America-serving almost 60 million passengers in 2016. In 2007, AvTurf was contracted by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to install a surface that would control erosion and FOD. With the approaching arrival of a new line of jumbo jets, AvTurf served as an alternative to constant runway closures that were previously necessary to clean up debris blown onto intersecting runways from the airport’s natural groundcover. In addition, the synthetic turf surface aids in, combating drainage problems, mitigating wildlife management, and minimizing maintenance for the selected plot of AvTurf.
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