The low-cost terminal of the BER takes the Form
The Terminal 2 is to prevent the BER of the feared bottlenecks to the Start. Here you can see how the construction progresses.
BER-Chef Engelbert Lütke Daldrup is since months not tired to underline: With the October 2020, the new capital airport will have more than seven years of delay, finally a realistic start date. However, in March, problems with Cable systems fire alarm system the start date again to falter.
For optimism in the heads of the breakdown project's Terminal 2, which is tamped in October in a hurry from the floor, meanwhile. It is intended to prevent the feared bottlenecks in the small planned main terminal. Instead of elegant shapes, the architects simple industrial construction, selected Standards, so the construction should proceed quickly and easily to advance. These measures seem to be bearing fruit, with the topping-out ceremony was on Tuesday (30 July) a very important stage within the time plan can be achieved.
More functional and less complicated
"It is not a Cathedral of the traffic," says Lütke Daldrup during the ceremony at the construction site. The have of the airport, according to him, already with the Terminal 1. "We have here a practical, functional building," said the project chief. If the Terminal 2 receives also to the targeted start date in October 2020 with the operation, it is out of a total of 40 million planned pass of the airport to operate to handle about 6 million and, above all, the cheap flight range to cover.
In the next few weeks, it now goes in order to begin the installation of the baggage handling system as well as the façade. "We are still in the shell," said Daldrup, according to which the indicative is fixed in approximately the mid-point of the construction phase. Nevertheless, he remains carefully at the schedule and says: "the security we have in a year."
The next two months are important
While in Terminal 2 was celebrated, the airport since this week in the main terminal an important exam. There, since Monday (29. July) a two-month practice test. Also the previously problematic fire protection systems on the test bench. For the compliance with the envisaged start date is the performance of the Tests is important. Because while the BER could lift a Start-up in case of emergency, without the Terminal 2, the appointment with the progression of the main terminal.
You can see in the above pictures in the gallery shots of the current construction status of the Terminal 2 of the BER.