Transforming an airport with safer, sustainable, and future-ready airfield infrastructure

Boston Logan International Airport Runway 15R-33L Rehabilitation

Runway 15R-33L is one of Boston Logan International Airport’s workhorses—an airfield artery that keeps millions of passengers moving each year. Modernization of the runway demanded precision, innovation, and speed. The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) engaged our team to lead the full design and construction-phase services for the rehabilitation of the 10,000-foot (3048-metre) runway and its taxiway network, guiding the effort from early evaluations through completion.

Our aviation team explored multiple schematic design options and analyzed grading improvements, pavement materials, sustainability strategies, draining upgrades, and full electrical system replacement needs. These assessments helped us shape a clear, data-driven path forward. From there, we developed a comprehensive plan to rehabilitate the runway and paved shoulders through two runway intersections, and 10 connecting taxiways. We reconfigured key geometry to enhance Taxiways M and N, removing segments of Taxiways Q and F to make way for a new, durable Taxiway T with Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavement to withstand heavy aircraft braking.

Electrical modernization played a major role in our work. We replaced aging high-intensity runway and touchdown zone lighting with efficient LED systems, upgraded circuitry, and incorporated new conduits and light bases for future-ready runway lighting.

A project of this scale affects local airport operations as well as impacts to national airspace. We collaborated closely with the Massport, airlines, airport users, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Boston Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT), and neighboring communities to shape a construction plan that balanced efficiency and predictability, resulting in a coordinated 100-day runway closure for the project.

Now complete, this project delivered a safer, more sustainable and resilient airfield asset—maintaining airport operations while supporting the broader community with reliable infrastructure, reduced environmental impact, and longer-term performance.