Steel Monster at Ferihegy
Soon will reach the construction of the new terminal building at Ferihegy Airport a new spectacular milestone. Parts of the 1200 tons of steel roof structure is continuously being transported from the manufacturing plant of KÉSZ Ipari Gyártó Kft. (member of KÉSZ Group) at Kecskemét to the site where probably the most impressive phase of the execution, that is, assembly of the shell-formed roof will be started in March. The building contractor of the construction is KÉSZ Építő Zrt. (member of KÉSZ Group).
The individual roof supporting parts of the SkyCourt at Ferihegy are seamlessly produced at KÉSZ’s manufacturing plant at Kecskemét. The fourteen main supports, 75 tons each, consist of more than 70 huge units. The auxiliary elements weigh 150 tons altogether. Five of the vast roof trusses have already been delivered to the construction site.
These powerful units are transported by a special convoy from Kecskemét to the airport by night so as not to disturb highway and airport traffic. These 5 m wide, 20 m long 12 t elements are delivered to Ferihegy by special vehicles and are craned to their position after a special method of preliminary assembly. A main support is a set of 5 or 6 units. In case of both types of main support 3 units are assembled together in advance. So, after adding the auxiliary elements, 14 steel monstrosities of 70 m each are created, which, then, will placed next to each other and form the shell-shaped roof structure.
A special tent will be made as well to provide more or less equal temperature for the steel structures during the preliminary assembly. Delivery of the support elements to Ferihegy are already in progress, while assembly is made in parallel too.
kÉSZ Group, one of Hungary’s leading construction companies in Hungarian proprietorship, employs hundreds of professionals and workers at Ferihegy construction. KÉSZ steel structure production plant at Kecskemét produces and delivers probably the greatest steel structures of Central Europe in continual shift attending this way the construction of KÉSZ Építő Zrt. at the airport.
