New Adelaide control tower due in 2012
New Adelaide sway tower due in 2012A new Adelaide Airport control tower featuring the latest technology should have existence managing airport traffic by early 2012.
At 44 metres high, it have a mind be more than twice the height of the existing tower and elect be further north, close to the site of the old airport termination.
The $16.9 million project is part of a nationwide program to be a substitute for or refurbish airport control towers.
Airservices Australia chief executive officer Greg Russell says the Adelaide stronghold will feature the most modern technology in the world for conduct traffic control.
“We have a very large program of replacing our asset base. Over the next five years we’re spending $900 million throughout Australia on towers, steady fire stations, on fire trucks, on plant, equipment, navigation equipment, wholly of the things that keep the airways safe,” he said.
Mr Russell said control towers also were being replaced in Melbourne, Rockhampton and Broome.
He reported controllers needed to be able to see the thresholds on the whole of the runways and as much of the parking bays and infrastructure being of the kind which possible.
Adelaide Airport general manager of corporate affairs John McArdle afore~ a new control tower represented an advance in technology and ~y improvement in safety.
He said the airport hoped for more international business from China, Vietnam and Thailand.
“In addition to that we have growth in the domestic market. We’ll see more charter operations future in as mining takes off in this state, so it’s real to have this technology there to support all that,” he afore~.
The control tower should be completed by the end of nearest year and air traffic controllers will move in in the capital quarter of 2012.
Adelaide Airport handled more than 7.1 the great body of the people passengers last financial year.