Friday March 31st, 2017
The new international terminal at Zagreb Airport was inaugurated on March 21 by the Croatian Prime Minister. Teams from Bouygues Bâtiment International, in conjunction with the local construction company, Viadukt, handed over the project in December 2016, after 36 months of works. Let’s take a look back at this prestigious new reference. The project, […]
The new international terminal at Zagreb Airport was inaugurated on March 21 by the Croatian Prime Minister. Teams from Bouygues Bâtiment International, in conjunction with the local construction company, Viadukt, handed over the project in December 2016, after 36 months of works. Let’s take a look back at this prestigious new reference.
The project, which represents a total investment of €331 million over the concession period, included the financing, design and construction of a new airport terminal intended to replace the previous one, which had become saturated, as well as operating the entire airport for 30 years.
The works, which involved more than 1,500 people at peak periods, have resulted in a 66,000 m² terminal, 100,000 m² of taxiways, eight boarding gates, 30 check-in counters and 1,195 car parking spaces. The airport is capable of handling 5 million passengers annually (compared to current capacity of 2.8 million); this could be raised to 8 million passengers per year at a later stage. In terms of both quantity and quality, this is a massive leap forwards for the Croatian capital, which is seeking to make itself more attractive to European tourists and investors.
The new international terminal, designed by architects Kincl, Neidhardt and Radic, was officially inaugurated on March 21. The facility will go into commercial operation on March 28, when the Franjo Tudjman airport, named after Croatia’s head of state from 1990 to 1999, will welcome the first commercial passenger under the distinctive undulating metal roof that is very much the architectural hallmark of the project.
This development provides Croatia with an airport boasting state-of-the-art equipment, some of which is being used for the first time in Croatia, such as a baggage sorting system that gives 3D images of the content of luggage. Not only will the new terminal be connected and secure, it will also have LEED® Silver certification, which acknowledges measures taken to increase its environmental performance, including a rainwater recovery system to provide water for the toilets and the use of concrete with titanium content to capture CO2.
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