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20 BNA AIRFIELD MARKINGS
Nashville Int’l Cuts Costs for Airfield Markings
With New Inspection & Maintenance Strategy
BY MIKE SCHWANZ
FACTS &FIGURES
Project: Airfield Markings Assessment
Location: Nashville Int’l Airport
Consultant: Sightline
Markings Assessment: $30,000
Airport Staff Training: $15,000
Mapping System Implemented: Jan. 2018
Markings Assessments: Daily by airport staff; annually
by Sightline
Last Staff Training: July 2019
Airport Maintenance Employees: 75
Contractors: Markings Impressions Corp. dba Pope
Striping; Pavement Restorations Inc.
Key Benefits: Targeted assessment of markings is
reducing maintenance costs & increasing quality
People use the phrase “Don’t
paint yourself into a corner” to
offer advice about everything
from business strategies to personal
relationships. It also can apply, somewhat
literally, to airports that establish years of
fixed budgets for airfield marking projects.
Sadly, many end up overspending.
Nashville International Airport (BNA)
has taken a different approach to the
ongoing task to avoid painting itself into
a proverbial corner, and to avoid paying
too much in the process. In early 2018, it
started using a high-tech mapping system
that helps the airport pinpoint specific
spots and areas of markings that require
maintenance as identified by BNA’s
Operations Team during daily and monthly
inspections. As a result, it is able to
reduce the scope for many paint projects,
which saves time and money.
“Before 2015, our markings program
was somewhat fragmented,” explains
Floyd Crook, BNA’s director of
maintenance. “We
decided we needed a
complete assessment
of our markings
plan, so we hired a
consultant, Sightline,
to do a complete
assessment of our
airfield during the
winter of 2014-2015.”
FLOYD CROOK
Sightline recommended that instead
of setting a fixed budget and replacing
markings on a calendar basis, BNA
should address markings gradually,
as they begin to show the need. The
outside contractor also counseled the
airport to enroll some of its experienced
maintenance workers and contractors in
the company’s training program so they
could perform regular inspections to help
identify when markings needed cleaning
or repainting.
Daniel B. Brown, the airport’s manager
of safety and quality assurance, oversees
October 2020
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