Berlin's New Airport
This article describes how the new Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport will soon provide improved links by air to the city. Work started in mid 2006 with the redevelopment of the existing Berlin Schonefeld Airport. The project is being aided by a fleet of Wirtgen slipform pavers, which are building taxiways, aprons and ramps as well as the southern runway and covers an impressive total area of some 1.5 million meters squared. The southern runway of Schonefeld Airport will serve as the northern runway of the new airport. The facility will have a new terminal building with direct rail connection as well as an additional, 4km long runway to the south and opening of the new airport is scheduled for mid 2012. This will make Berlin Germany’s third largest airport after Frankfurt and Munich and one of the top 50 airports worldwide. Future expansion could see the airport’s capacity expanded to up to 360,000 aircraft movements per year, or 45 million passengers per year.
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- Publication Date: 2011
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Photos;
- Pagination: pp 33-34
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Serial:
- World Highways/Routes du Monde
- Publisher: Route One Publishing Limited
- ISSN: 0964-4598
- Serial URL: http://www.worldhighways.com
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Airport runways; Airport terminals; Construction projects; Intermodal terminals; Slip form pavers; Terminal operations
- Identifier Terms: Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport
- Geographic Terms: Berlin (Germany)
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Construction; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01350773
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 31 2011 7:45AM