BAM Nuttall secures £85m contract to deliver London City Airport extension

BAM Nuttall has been awarded a £85m contract to deliver a new 75,000 m2 concrete deck extension at London City Airport.

The deck extension forms part of the £480m City Airport Development Programme, supporting new infrastructure including aircraft stands, a parallel taxiway and a enhanced passenger terminal extension.

The Development Programme will deliver improved facilities for customers, an expanded offer of flights, and greater space to accommodate increasing passengers, enabling annual passengers to grow from the current 4.5 million to 6.5 million.

The piling and decking contract, valued at approximately £85m, will be carried out by BAM Nuttall with the support of its sister company BAM International.

The work will see BAM extend the airport’s concrete deck out over the King George V Dock supported by over 1,000 concrete piles with steel casings – each approximately 20m in length.

Works on site will take place while the airport remains operational, and commence in Spring 2018, once the unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey is complete, which recently yielded the discovery of 500kg Second World War device that was safely disposed of by the Royal Navy.

Completion of the deck is expected in early 2020.

Peter Adams, chief development officer at London City Airport, said: “The contract is the first big step forward in the airport’s development programme, essentially creating new land that will provide the base upon which we will build the majority of the transformational infrastructure, including the extended terminal building and additional aircraft stands.

“BAM has proven expertise and experience in these techniques and we are really pleased they are on board to deliver this project alongside the overall delivery partner, Bechtel.”

Martin Bellamy, BAM Nuttall executive director, aded: “We are delighted that BAM have been selected to deliver such a major marine civil engineering project that draws on our relevant expertise and experience.

“This scheme will play a significant part in the overall Airport Development Programme and will support the planned infrastructure such as the aircraft stands and new world class passenger terminal extension. We are looking forward to successfully delivering this prestigious project, working alongside London City Airport and Bechtel.”

The new deck will consist of precast reinforced concrete planks with a reinforced concrete topping spanning onto precast concrete beams, which will be supported on more than 1,000 large diameter bored concrete piles with steel casings in the dock bed.

Additional work includes the partial demolition of the King George V Dock wall to enable tying in of the new deck, construction of a partly submerged service trough and drainage channels, and approximately 50 land based piles adjacent to the airport entrance.

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