BIAL Official Updates October 2007
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Written By vlnarayan - 7 November, 2007
BIAL
Bangalore
Infrastructure
Construction progress update for October 2007
The highlight this month included the commissioning of passenger boarding bridges, transformers, CCTV cameras, fire alarm system in the terminal building. Elevators were commissioned at both, the terminal building as well as the Air Traffic Control building. Airfield lights commissioning continued at the airside.
The Terminal building
The external painting of the west wall of the building continued. The works within the terminal building including the flooring, glass cladding of the columns, glass façade installations are nearing completion. The glass cladding for the 8 fixed links are in progress Installation work on other facilities like the elevators and escalators, automatic doors, check in counter, baggage handling system are continuing. The work within the duty free and food and beverage area on the first floor of the terminal building is gaining momentum.
Airside Works
The approach light work having been concluded at the runway, the work on the taxiway lights instillations is now nearing completion.
In addition, the instillation of light poles for the airside wall illumination is nearing completion. Cabling works for these are now in progress. On the Apron area, laying of the final concrete layer is nearing completion.
Other buildings & infrastructure
-At the ATC tower, the aluminium composite panel (ACP) cladding and glass fixing works are nearing completion.
-The earthworks for the main access road outside the boundary wall of the airport are nearing completion. Landscaping works along the main access road have now commenced.
-Nav-Aid (navigation aid) buildings: All the Nav-Aid buildings are nearly completed and are ready to be handed over to the Airports Authority of India.
its always good to have good lighting with such design but it also lets in heat during our hot summers..and the a/c will need to over work then!
so it might not be helping much..that is the case with all our new age buildings..
US has glass facades for their bldgs cos the weather there is cold in most parts and this helps in saving energy...not sure if the same works here and dunno why we want to ape them !!
one nice way to save energy was the bldg at infosys which is naturally cool..thats interesting
i think it is amazing the speed at which these guys are moving, despite the re-design.
aside: i had written to them 2 days back, about the date problem. they did not reply back to me, but got the problem fixed.
Tarle,
I really like their design as far as inside lighting goes. Having skylights makes so much sense. Am sure it cuts a fair bit on cost and emissions as well. How they keep it clean is another question. Am sure brunner must have thought about it.
Am sure no one in the bureaucratic circles must have ever thought that this would be done on time :). they must have thought 2010 admele idu shuru aggothe. Iglinda yaake tale kedesukobeku?
Srivathsa
Beating Bangalore traffic: Deccan pitches copter ride to new airport(Live Mint)
Deccan Aviation Ltd, which owns nine helicopters, plans to operate an intra-city chopper shuttle service in the state capital. This is to ferry to the new airport on Bangalore’s outskirts passengers who wish to avoid the city’s notorious traffic gridlocks.
We have two helicopters in Bangalore. One can be put into shuttle service once the new airport starts,” says Capt. G.R. Gopinath, executive chairman of Deccan Aviation, which also runs India’s biggest low-cost airline.
Based in Bangalore, Deccan is preparing a detailed business plan for operating the heli-charter service, which will be ready by the month-end, Gopinath adds. A BIAL spokesperson declined to comment on the planned service.
Deccan has identified two helipads, one in Palace Grounds in the heart of the city and another at UB City, a commercial complex owned by the UB Group. Group company United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd, which runs Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, owns 26% of Air Deccan.
“The helicopter service will serve a small number of people. But the bigger issue of smooth transfer of the 40,000-odd passengers who use the airport every day will remain,” says Gopinath.
Delhi Metro Corp. Ltd, which has built the metro rail in the country’s Capital, has submitted a proposal to the local government for a mass transit system to the airport. “We need a good underground metro that will take passengers to the airport,” adds Gopinath.
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(source bialairport.com)
archived for later.
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