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Vienna Airport development
600 tonnes of steel sheet piles from ThyssenKrupp are the foundation for success
Vienna Airport (Flughafen Wien AG) has 2,600
employees and is one of the most important stock
market-quoted companies in the country. Its size
makes the airport also responsible for the economic
development of the region. And the curve is rising
rapidly in an upward direction: Vienna Airport is
growing continuously, creating a greater percentage
of workplaces than the remainder of the
Austrian economy as well as being the location for
new companies.
More than 600 tonnes of steel sheet piles from
ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik have been positioned
in the Viennese earth to make the foundations
for this location. This is because without
effectively consolidating the three linked construction
site areas by means of sheet piles, it
would hardly have been possible to meet one of
the decisive requirements, namely that of connecting
as quickly as possible the different sections
of the construction site in their various construction
phases.
Consideration for the environment
The consolidation of an open cut for a pedestrian
access level is being carried out, complete with
ThyssenKrupp sheet piles. In Vienna, solely
LARSSEN sections in the following quantities have
been used: 23 twelve-metre, 50 thirteen-metre
and 141 fifteen-metre LARSSEN 607 as well as
189 twelve-metre LARSSEN 606 and, finally, 50
ten-metre LARSSEN 605. This means that this
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construction work has involved the use of 453
LARSSEN sections at Vienna Airport, having an
exact total weight of 603.6 tonnes.
And the Viennese have considerable additional
scope for the further expansion for their airport:
this is because the rapid development to date has
brought with it the need to extend capacities to
meet demand, a matter of particular economic
significance. The environment and consideration
for neighbours are top priorities as is the need to
match the improvement in the transport links with
the airport to current and future demand. This is a
challenge which Vienna Airport has always overcome
in the past: it has been able at all times to
provide the necessary capacity for growing air
traffic. The extensions to the facilities and terminals
in the 1960s and 1970s were carried out at
the start of the boom in air traffic. The developments
in the 1980s and 1990s were completed at
a time when there was an increase in traffic with
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eastern Europe and in transfer traffic. Double-digit
growth rates over the last few months and the
high growth forecast for the next few years are the
basis for the increasing importance of Vienna Airport
as the major linking airport for central Europe.
So as to handle these expectations of future growth,
there must be available perfect infrastructure and
appropriately expanded capacities.
Vienna Airport is being developed and expanded
with a total investment of Euro 722 million. The