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MDW / KMDW · Chicago, Illinois · USA

Design
Project type
Maintenance
Strength of evidence
High
Year
2025
Project intelligenceWhere the project stands in the process, based on the source's own status
Identified
Planning
Funded
Procurement
Under construction
Completed
What's happening now

EMAS Bed Repairs (CIP-projekt 46109)

Why RWI is watching this: Sources point to current or upcoming economic activity right now - funding, procurement, design or construction.

+1 more below under "Projects and watch items".

Runways
13L/31R13R/31L4L/22R4R/22L
Documented EMAS

3 installations · Runway 22L

Installed 2006–2014 · Runway Safe

Runway 13L Reviewed identity

Physical location per reviewed identity: runway 31R.

Runway 22L Reviewed identity

Physical location per reviewed identity: runway 04R.

Runway 31R Reviewed identity

Physical location per reviewed identity: runway 13L.

Runway 4R Reviewed identity

Physical location per reviewed identity: runway 22L.

EMAS installation (3)
greenEMAS No confirmed runway link Current physical state
Source
FAA EMAS Incidents and Installations map (verified CSV export)
Federal Aviation Administration · FAA map data
Open source →
Details from the source

FAA map region: Map - Main FAA arresting-system data lists multiple EMAS-equipped ends here: 04R/22L/04R, 04R/22L/22L, 13L/31R/13L, 13L/31R/31R.

greenEMAS Runway 22L Installed 2014 Confirmed vendor: Runway Safe
Source
Runway Safe Group AB greenEMAS System
Gadelius · News source
Open source →
Details from the source

Separat, nyare post utöver den befintliga generiska FAA-kartposten (id 26) för samma flygplats - den posten sammanfattar bara FAA:s kartdata utan bekräftat installationsår/leverantör, denna post bekräftar båda specifikt. Installationsår 2014 bekräftat via Gadelius (RW:s japanska licenspartner) officiella greenEMAS-produktsida (https://www.gadelius.com/products/license_engineering/greenemas_e.html). Detaljer enligt PRWeb-pressmeddelande (https://www.prweb.com/releases/chicago_airports_to_install_first_ever_sustainable_emas_solution_at_midway_and_o_hare/prweb12986556.htm): första bädden klar nov 2014 på bana 22L, totalt fyra bäddar utlovade till slutet av 2016 (samma satsning som gav O'Hare greenEMAS 'shortly after').

EMASMAX No confirmed runway link Installed 2006
Source
Fact Sheet – Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS)
FAA · FAA fact sheet · 2016-02-04
Open source →
Details from the source

2 system (ESCO/EMASMAX-produktlinjen specifikt - halls isar fran Runway Safes greenEMAS-installationer pa samma flygplats), enligt 2016 Fact Sheet ('Chicago Midway, Chicago, IL, 2, 2006/2007****'). OLOST: fotnoten '****' ar inte definierad nagonstans i dokumentets fotnotlegend (som bara definierar (), *, **, *** och +) - flaggat, inte gissat.

Location
Chicago Midway International Airport: 41.786, -87.7524

41.786, -87.7524

Projects and watch items
SignalLifecycleStatusProject typeConfidenceYearSourceScore
EMAS Bed Repairs (CIP-projekt 46109) Active opportunity DesignMaintenance
High
2025 CIP 8.0
Future EMAS lifecycle watch
A source-backed watch item, not confirmation of an active project or current physical installation.
 Developing watch Watch item – research candidateReplacement – watched
Low
– Other source 4.5
Intelligence historyReal, source-backed project and funding events in chronological order - never an assumed causal link between entries
2025
EMAS Bed Repairs (CIP-projekt 46109) Maintenance
Project · Design Active opportunity

Open source →

Without a certain event date
Future EMAS lifecycle watch Replacement – watched
Project · Watch item – research candidate Developing watch

The source itself is dated, but the event's own timing is not established.

Evidence 6 sources

Source-backed, but no reviewed claim has been transcribed yet for the sources below - see each one's own link to the original source.

Internal watch item
Runway Safe Intelligence · Other source · 2026-07-17 · Open source →
City of Chicago 2025-2029 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Report
City of Chicago Office of Budget and Management · CIP · 2025-11-10 · Open source →
Fact Sheet – Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS)
FAA · FAA fact sheet · 2016-02-04 · Open source →
Fact Sheet – Engineered Material Arresting Systems (EMAS)
FAA · FAA fact sheet · 2011-03-07 · Open source →
FAA EMAS Incidents and Installations map (verified CSV export)
Federal Aviation Administration · FAA map data · Open source →
Runway Safe Group AB greenEMAS System
Gadelius · News source · Open source →