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#1 Post by Will » Wed May 19, 2010 11:45 pm

I found this on the Hansen Yuncken website:
Airport Control Tower, SA

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The Air Services Australia New Traffic Control Tower is being built by Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd.

The new tower will be located immediately East of the runways adjacent to the old domestic terminal building site, which was demolished last year.
The new tower will be just under 50.000 meters above ground level and will incorporate a two storey concrete framed administration and services infrastructure building.

The tower will have a concrete framed tower which is proposed to be slip formed, the upper operation deck levels will be incorporated with a reinforced precast funnel structure with in-situ slabs and internallift & stair core. The upper levels will be accessed via a single lift and fire stair.

The on site construction activities are scheduled to commence late June 2010 with the Towers completion forecast for August 2011.

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Re: #PRO - Adelaide Airport Control Tower - 50m - $16 millio

#2 Post by AtD » Thu May 20, 2010 7:38 am

Cool, we're getting the LAX tower...

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#3 Post by ralmin » Thu May 20, 2010 2:17 pm

The new tower will be just under 50.000 meters above ground level
So they're saying the tower height must be between 49.999 and 50.000 m... MILLIMETRE precision :applause:

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#4 Post by crawf » Thu May 20, 2010 3:14 pm

Would this be the 2nd tallest structure in the suburbs?, first being Torrens Island Power Station.

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#5 Post by Omicron » Thu May 20, 2010 4:00 pm

AtD wrote:Cool, we're getting the LAX tower...
Fingers crossed for the Theme Building next!

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#6 Post by monotonehell » Thu May 20, 2010 5:54 pm

Omicron wrote:
AtD wrote:Cool, we're getting the LAX tower...
Fingers crossed for the Theme Building next!
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Re: #PRO - Adelaide Airport Control Tower - 50m - $16 millio

#7 Post by iTouch » Fri May 21, 2010 4:38 pm

I'm not trying to sound like an Adelaide City resident NIMBY but isn't 50m a tad too tall for an airport? It's just a question not a statement.
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#8 Post by Wayno » Fri May 21, 2010 4:53 pm

iTouch(myself) wrote:I'm not trying to sound like an Adelaide City resident NIMBY but isn't 50m a tad too tall for an airport? It's just a question not a statement.
Are you questioning whether such a tall structure will present as an flight path risk? if so, the answer is no because airplanes are typically on the ground at airports, so the building height does not overly matter.
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Re: #PRO - Adelaide Airport Control Tower - 50m - $16 millio

#9 Post by AG » Fri May 21, 2010 4:57 pm

iTouch(myself) wrote:I'm not trying to sound like an Adelaide City resident NIMBY but isn't 50m a tad too tall for an airport? It's just a question not a statement.
Control towers typically need to be substantially taller than other structures at the airport so that traffic control can see what is happening on the ground around all parts of the airport unobstructed. The one at Heathrow in London is 87m tall for this very purpose so it can see around all 5 airport terminals.

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#10 Post by iTouch » Sat May 22, 2010 10:42 pm

o ok, sorry if that sounded like a stupid question lol. I'm not the biggest airport expert :P I'm more of a roadtrip man :)
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Re: #PRO - Adelaide Airport Control Tower - 50m - $16 millio

#11 Post by bm7500 » Sun May 23, 2010 3:59 pm

AG wrote:
iTouch(myself) wrote:I'm not trying to sound like an Adelaide City resident NIMBY but isn't 50m a tad too tall for an airport? It's just a question not a statement.
Control towers typically need to be substantially taller than other structures at the airport so that traffic control can see what is happening on the ground around all parts of the airport unobstructed. The one at Heathrow in London is 87m tall for this very purpose so it can see around all 5 airport terminals.
Correct :)

Further to that, Melbourne Airport is also getting a new ATC tower around the same time. Because of the reasons AG has mentioned above, theirs will be taller at 78m. The image below is of the soon to be constructed Melbourne tower, ours will more than likely just be a shortened version of the same.

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#12 Post by bm7500 » Sun May 23, 2010 4:05 pm

As a comparison, the current ATC Tower here is a whopping 21m high. lol

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Re: #PRO - Adelaide Airport Control Tower - 50m - $16 millio

#13 Post by Wayno » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:47 pm

Apparently construction has started, well earth breaking so far...
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Re: #PRO - Adelaide Airport Control Tower - 50m - $16 millio

#14 Post by bm7500 » Tue Aug 03, 2010 4:55 pm

Further to this, the ATC Tower will come to a height of 44m and will cost $16.9 Million

ETC; late 2011, operational early 2012
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Re: #PRO - Adelaide Airport Control Tower - 50m - $16 millio

#15 Post by Benski81 » Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:28 pm

bm7500 wrote:As a comparison, the current ATC Tower here is a whopping 21m high. lol

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Is that actually the current ATC tower?

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