Lilydale Airport

A tie-down row. Then a hangar apron, poured separately alongside it. Both sit at Lilydale Airport, formed in Ultracon, the smooth-finish permeable concrete built to carry aircraft and shed rain at the same time.

Lilydale Airport permeable concrete, area by area

Runway, taxiway, apron: three different jobs on the same field. Aircraft land and take off on one, move along the next, then get parked and worked on at the third. We built each to suit what happens on it, rather than copying one detail across the whole site.

Thickness decides what a slab can carry. Every one of these areas came off the same loading chart, which turns a slab's thickness into an estimated axle load, so the hangar apron can take more weight than a taxiway ever will. See the chart itself, and how we got there, on our technical page.

Rain on an open field

Flat and wide: that's the whole point of an airfield. On a sealed surface, water has a long way to go before it ever meets a drain. Not here. Ultracon lets it drop straight through into the base below, where it's held, then let go into the ground.

One stretch of it sits square in the grass, white lines crossing the surface, a light aircraft parked just outside the hangar, a windsock lifting above the field and marker cones marking out the rest.

Paved to suit Lilydale

Lilydale got ground built around its own aircraft and its own conditions, water managed inside the pavement rather than across it. Our airport tarmac page is where that conversation starts for a strip of your own. Every airfield gets a design built for it, the same as any other job we take on.