Suvarnabhumi Bangkok International Airport, สนามบินสุวรรณภูมิ
Suvarnabhumi Airport is the main international airport of Thailand, operating both domestic and international flights and acting one of the main gateway to South East Asia for travelers in the region. The airport is located at the East of Bangkok, less than 15mn from Dextra main manufacturing facility.
Dextra has been involved has been involved since the beginning of Suvarnabhumi construction back in 2001, and is still involved today in the airport’s latest expansion projects.
For Suvarnabhumi Airport, Dextra delivered over the years a vast range of technical solutions to support the various contractors on part of the project.
For foundation piles, diaphragm walls, columns and beams and other concrete structures, Bartec rebar couplers have been used extensively in all parts of the airports. The popular coupler solution allow to safely connect rebar together, as vertical or horizontal connections. In Thailand, Dextra also takes in charge the rebar preparation service, which is ensured from our own threading yard in Bangkok.
Terminal roofs and concourses have also been designed to use as cross-trusses Dextra Tension Bar Systems. The high performance large par systems are easy to install and adjust in length thanks to their fork ends and in-line connectors, and participate to the overall aesthetics of the terminal structure.
For plane remote parking area where plane fine tune communications with the control tower, Dextra supplied large diameter FRP dowel bars, connecting the tarmac concrete slabs.Dextra FRP bars provide similar tensile performance to steel bars but prevent some of the interferences inherent to metallic structures.