Shaybah is located some 1000 Km south-east of Dammam, in the Empty Quarter of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The site provides a base for a recently built Saudi Arabian Oil Company production plant, an administration and residential complex, a small Airport terminal building and airstrip. The runway is a rigid pavement Portland cement concrete slab with a single layer of WWF reinforcement.
The works included, visual inspection, site sampling and laboratory testing including ‘Impact Echo Method’, ‘Demec Strain Gauge’, ‘Pull-Off’ tests’, Cores, test pits to collect samples of sub-base & sub-grade, and Petro-graphic analysis. The structural integrity of the runway was expressed as the runway’s ability to carry projected traffic.