CPB Contractors has completed construction of the first major piece of Sydney’s new 24-hour airport, delivering Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Wilton) Airport’s (WSI) Airside Civil and Pavement works package. This milestone marks official certification of the airport's runway and other key airside facilities, a testament to the rapid progression of this monumental infrastructure project.
One of five works packages CPB Contractors has been contracted to deliver at WSI, equipped with modern technology and rapid exit taxiways, required an incredible 2.7 million work hours from thousands of workers.
Work here involved transforming the site to build a 3.7km runway, equipped with approximately 3,000 aeronautical ground lights and 248 high intensity approach lights, which will cater for up to 10 million annual passengers from day one of operations in 2026.
Aside from WSI’s runway and lighting, the Airside, Civil and Pavement Works Package also involved the design and construction of the taxiway pavements, aircrafts pavement markings, airside roads, surface water drainage, airside security fence and landscaping.
CPB Contractors Project Director Christian Byrne said the CPB Contractors/ACCIONA Joint Venture team is very proud to have been a part of this transformational project.
“Successful delivery of the ACP project required millions of tonnes of high quality, high strength, quarry materials to be sourced and imported into the site, then processed and placed in the aircraft pavement areas, to construct the aviation pavements to strict FAA specifications, which took an enormous effort from a large team.
The aircraft pavements were constructed with an excellent team culture and commitment to working safely. We developed and delivered an Australian-first paving methodology of “true-slip forming” the concrete aircraft pavements – improving productivity and safety.”
CPB Contractors in a joint venture with Acciona has led the works on the Airside Civil and Pavement works package. CPB Contractors continues to build on its commitment to safe and certain delivery of the other projects across the new precinct including the Western Sydney Airport Stage 1 Cargo Works.
One of five works packages CPB Contractors has been contracted to deliver at WSI, equipped with modern technology and rapid exit taxiways, required an incredible 2.7 million work hours from thousands of workers.
Work here involved transforming the site to build a 3.7km runway, equipped with approximately 3,000 aeronautical ground lights and 248 high intensity approach lights, which will cater for up to 10 million annual passengers from day one of operations in 2026.
Aside from WSI’s runway and lighting, the Airside, Civil and Pavement Works Package also involved the design and construction of the taxiway pavements, aircrafts pavement markings, airside roads, surface water drainage, airside security fence and landscaping.
CPB Contractors Project Director Christian Byrne said the CPB Contractors/ACCIONA Joint Venture team is very proud to have been a part of this transformational project.
“Successful delivery of the ACP project required millions of tonnes of high quality, high strength, quarry materials to be sourced and imported into the site, then processed and placed in the aircraft pavement areas, to construct the aviation pavements to strict FAA specifications, which took an enormous effort from a large team.
The aircraft pavements were constructed with an excellent team culture and commitment to working safely. We developed and delivered an Australian-first paving methodology of “true-slip forming” the concrete aircraft pavements – improving productivity and safety.”
CPB Contractors in a joint venture with Acciona has led the works on the Airside Civil and Pavement works package. CPB Contractors continues to build on its commitment to safe and certain delivery of the other projects across the new precinct including the Western Sydney Airport Stage 1 Cargo Works.