Kuwait International Airport Project - Terminal Building
Design Coordination and Consultancy Services for 13m passenger capacity $
4.4billion Mega Airport
Project Contractor: Limak Construction Kuwait
Courtesy of Limak Construction Kuwait
What we are building?
Primary Roof Structure
Precast post tensioned concrete elements with cable stays. Each piece varies from 100tons to 360tons in weight.
Precast segments were cast at site factory with special adjustable formworks.
Total number of 807 arch segments were fabricated which forms the skeleton of the mega roof structure.
Precast segment fabrication by Pacadar
Precast segment adjustable formworks by Çeka
Precast segment fabrication by Pacadar
Precast segment fabrication by Pacadar
Precast segments were transported from casting yard to erection area
with SPMT's (Self-Propelled Modular Transporters)
and tilted with a tilting table simultaneously by two cranes
SPMT carrying a precast segment
Tilting of a precast segment
Tilting of a precast segment
Tilting of a precast segment
Precast segments were erected with an army of crawler cranes
with capacities ranging from 600tons to 1600tons
Segmental precast arch erection by Mega Yapı
Erection of the last precast
All of the structural details were designed and coordinated
in state-of-the-art computer software which constitute
millions of meters of PT-stay cable strands and thousands of tons of embedded elements
Stay cables by VSL
Steel stitch
Steel stitch
Steel stitch
Post tensioning by VSL
Precast segment embedded steel fabrication by Al-Rakeb Steel
Precast segment embedded steel fabrication by Al-Rakeb Steel
More than 100,000 tons of temporary structures have been employed
combining steel towers and special truss systems
Roof Soffit Hybrid Structural Members (Shell Cassettes)
36,964 precasted shell cassettes bolted together to form 105 single layer shell domes of different spans (from 45x45m to 45x145m in regular bays and 100x100m central dome) the total roof area of 325,000m². 70,000 tons of structural steel, 3 million bolts, 52,000m3 concrete
Shell cassette
Rhino 3D surface models
Cross piece at flank wall interface
Side plate fabrication by Temsan
Electroslag welding at cross pieces by Temsan
TSA (Thermal Spray Aluminum) application
Shell cassette assembly by Neta
Rebar assembly by Viba
Adjustable formworks by Adapa
Casting shell cassette
Sand blasting of the shell cassette surface
Shell cassette erection by Neta
Shell cassette erection by Neta
Flank Wall
Flank walls are special type of shell cassettes that forms the root interface of the roof structure.
Steel flank wall
Flank wall temporary support structure by Çeka
Rotational joint for steel flank wall fabricated by Temsan
Rotational joint for steel flank wall
Rotational joint for steel flank wall
Flank wall - Shell cassettes interface
Roof Steel
18,000 tons of secondary roof steel members were used to ensure the geometry of standing seam roofing system.
Façade & Air Bridges
Façade and fixed bridge structures which were designed and coordinated in millimeter precision for fabrication and erection.
Façade works by Wuhan Lingyun
Façade steel strucure by Kharafi Steel
Air bridges steel structure by AIC Steel
Inner Structure
Terminal substructres are built with 1,300,000 m3 of concrete covering 700.000 m2 area.
Inner structure concrete works by San İnşaat
Encased column fabrication and erection by Kharafi Steel & MCC