the BER is, this time, made a bow, on a schedule. The stand always in the focus, explained Airport CEO Engelbert Lütke Daldrup ahead. No, no new problems: “There will be Christmas, when the building will be opened in 22 months, in October 2020.” Instead, Lütke Daldrup led this Friday, two dozen press people, TV crews and radio reporters to some beautiful fields, construction sites that have one thing in common: It is better to you than to the Terminal of the future capital airport with the whole tangle-free and Smoke-Clutter. It was a feel-Good Tour, just before Christmas 2018.
it is Clear that Lütke Daldrup at the beginning of the strict security checks at the airport fence were happening – the coach for the brand – new government terminal vis-à-vis the BER around curves, 30 million euros in tax, in just one and a half years for the Chancellor, members of the government and state guests, built. He could be used immediately, the flight readiness of the Bundeswehr from Tegel to Schönefeld and change. However, the Federal government allows the construction of empty, want to wait until the BER is in October 2020 in operation, if it comes to that. Lütke Daldrup suppressed to shield citizens string of the Federal government for each and every comment.
Terminal 2 building, the company Zechbau as a General contractor.Photo: Burkhard Fraune/dpa
T2: “In the Winter, the foundations are to be ready”
The most important stop was the pit for the second BER Terminal built under the project name T2 to 2020 in sight of the new Airport, right next to the North pier. In September the Work began, 148 piles were driven for the foundations in the ground and poured, ten to 16 meters deep. It is a busy place, everything looks like a functioning site. Not a still life, like most of the BER in addition.
“In Winter, should be the foundations ready,” said Lütke Daldrup. In the spring of 2019 would then deliver the finished parts for this simple, functional construction and mounted. You’ve drawn the bitter Lessons of the BER. Especially that you do not build themselves, but the company Zechbau as a General contractor for the Terminal key and ready for the airport company built. And that’s why he is also optimistic that the approved Budget of 200 million will not be exhausted. It had been doubled, because everything was more expensive, but generous. An estimate of the time of completion is? Now Yes, there are delays. Actually the Terminal should be in March 2020 ready to go to the necessary trial operation simultaneously with the BER in operation. Although Lütke Daldrup stressed also on Friday, the goal is to open up together with the BER and the additional terminal. But he’s restricted. “We don’t need him necessarily, but it would be nice to have him!” To prepare for the as a precautionary measure, both of these scenarios, a BER-Start “with and without” add-on terminal. Because, you are listen to, Lütke Daldrup said this sentence: “airport bosses – particularly in Berlin – cautious people”. That was really good.
capacity of 22 million passengers
In the case had previously sounded all different. Because, if the BER should in fact be open in October 2020, which according to the daily mirror research in view of the delays in the elimination of thousands of defects in cables and fire alarm system, the chances are about 50 : 50, to be released in Berlin, after all, 37 to 38 million passengers. This year it will be at the end – according to preliminary Figures, in the Old Airports, Schönefeld (SXF) and Tegel (TXL)-nearly 35 million have been, that would be a new record. Where is the 38 million passengers in Schönefeld in the year 2020, and should check out? Without the new Terminal, which is planned for six million passengers of cheap Airlines?
13 million passengers of the old schönefeld Airport, which will need to remain at least until 2025, parallel to the BER in operation. For the BER itself, about as many had been given in the last few years a capacity of 22 million passengers, as Tegel is currently discharged. It 2020 would act so a gap of three million passengers. Must Tegel remain so, but no longer in operation? No, insured Lütke Daldrup. You have yet to do the math once, and new simulations for the capacity of the BER to create: And, behold, it is apparent, therefore, that in the BER Terminal, however, more than 22 million passengers, which will be “more comfortable and convenient than in Tegel,” promised Lütke Daldrup. A precise number he called.
lightweight Terminal in schönefeld Airport
Meanwhile, walked over to the old schönefeld Airport, Tegel is always high. There is a lightweight Terminal has just been completed, to be more precise: for 3.6 million euros built “temporary waiting room” with five Gates, for thousands of people, from the Old Terminal over leads a passenger boarding bridge. The replacement Building with a fire watch is necessary so that the cramped Easyjet Pier (3A) – small rooms, narrow corridors – modernized, expanded, children’s playgrounds and dining options can be supplemented.
in a few weeks, built a waiting hall, a good 50 times by 50 meters in size, simply and practically designed, was Lütke Daldrup into raptures: The Dutch company is not innovative, it is a steel structure was had been pushed in between the walls. “The building is recyclable. It can be disassembled to 70 to 80 percent and re-used.“ A Premiere on the BER.
