Jorge Newbery airport in Buenos Aires

Aeroparque Jorge Newbery is one of the two airports in the city of Buenos Aires. It is located near the banks of the River La Plata, not far from one of the most popular areas of the Argentine capital, the Palermo district. Inaugurated in 1945 and named “Aeroparque 17 de Octubre” to commemorate the day the Argentine people demonstrated in favour of Juan Perón, the name of the airport was changed, following the coup in 1955, to honour the Argentine aviator, Jorge Newbery.

Since then, work has been constantly ongoing to renovate and extend the airport: the terminal and runway were extended in 1960; the runway and two terminals were extended even further and direct connections with the city of Buenos Aires were built in 2007 to meet the demand from more frequent international flights; a new control tower was built and commissioned in 2018. 

In 2019, following the increase in the amount of traffic and to prevent saturating the airport, all international traffic was temporarily transferred to Ezeiza International Airport but, in May 2020, the airport started operating international flights again to Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Because of this move, an expansion project was launched in 2020 that lasted several months, before reopening the airport again in March 2021. The work carried out in this period led to the building of a new runway more than 2 km long.

To handle the new volumes of traffic, the runway at the airport was rebuilt and extended.

Work started with the demolition of the surfaces of the existing runway, removal of all the debris and preparation of the ground. Thanks to the mixing plants and silos installed on site by UTE, the joint venture comprising Chediak and Ceosa commissioned to carry out the work, it was possible to create just the right mix design for the concrete required to build the new runway.

Mapei Argentina also contributed to the formulation of 105,000 m³ of concrete by devising a specific mix that, besides meeting specific performance requirements, was able to ensure high resistance to freeze and thaw cycles which the runway will be subject to in the next years.

The choice fell on Mapei admixtures which are suitable for making industrial floors and paving, including when exposed to the action of various atmospheric agents, such as those typically found at airports or  hydraulic works (dams, water channels, swimming pools, storage tanks).

The concrete runway is now in a position to handle the growing volumes of traffic using the airport, which, by the end of 2022, had already reached a total of 12.8 million passengers.

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