Betonwerk Bieren/FBS

6,000 m of reinforced concrete pipes for Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport, known in Germany as Flughafen Hamburg and in future called “­Helmut Schmidt Airport”, is the fifth largest airport in Germany with approx. 15.6 million passengers in 2015. It is a hub for the airlines Germanwings, Easyjet and Ryanair and, being opened in 1912, it is the oldest airport in the country. The concrete areas on the 570 hectares site situated about 8 km north of the city center have not been repaired for nearly 60 years. For this reason, the airport is planning the complete renewal of the main apron (apron 1) on an area covering 330,000 m² in the period from 2016 to...

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