The capacity of Europe''s seventh largest airport is being extended to accommodate the rising number of passengers. The construction of the new, 85 m high control tower, was necessary to monitor over 375,000 take-offs and landings a year.
At tender stage it was specified that all partition walls in the difficult layout were to be concreted together with the outer circumference walls.
For economical reasons the PERI specialists planned a climbing system with a crane for the inner shafts, and the outer formwork on ACS units climbing without a crane. This allows work to be carried out on the inner formwork within the protection of the outer formwork, even under extreme weather conditions.
The standard floor heights of 3.27 m for the 24 storey building were constructed in a four-day lift cycle.