LOCATION: Prosperous Bay, St. Helena Island
The airport was built on Prosperous Bay Plain, on the east side of Saint Helena entailing a concrete runway of 1,550 meters with taxiway and apron, approximately 8,000,000 cubic meters rock fill embankment through which a 750-meter long reinforced concrete culvert will run, an airport terminal building of 3,500 square meters and support infrastructure, air traffic control and safety, bulk fuel installation for 6 million liters of diesel and aviation fuel, a 14-kilometre airport access road from Rupert’s Bay to the airport, and all related logistics.
25 000 Tons of Ohorongo Cement was used to complete this project.