BOMAG MEGA PROJECT: NEW AIRPORT ISTANBUL |english

In action at the world’s largest airport construction site. Since June 2014, a new airport is being built in Istanbul which will be the world’s largest and will set new standards on completion. It will extend to some 8,000 hectares, the terminal building alone spans an area five times the size of the Empire State Building. BOMAG is very much involved in the implementation of the project – close to the Black Sea coast the company is carrying out the largest compaction project in its history, with over 130 single drum rollers. At the beginning of 2015, a fleet of BW 226 and BW 216 heavy single drum rollers with padfoot and polygonal drums commenced work on the construction site. A total of 136 machines, 61 of them equipped with the BOMAG Terrameter (BTM) and 45 with the BOMAG Compaction Management 05 (BCM 05) with GPS, are used for compaction.