Chennai International Airport is the main airport serving the southern city of Chennai in India. Located to the south of the city, it is the fourth busiest airport in India.

Dextra was involved in the construction efforts surrounding the airport’s renovation, which took place between 2008 and 2012.

For Chennai Airport, Dextra delivered its popular Bartec rebar coupler solution, which is the primary rebar coupler used in large projects across India.

The main contractor for this project was Herve Pomerleau International (HPI) – Consolidated Construction Consortium Limited. The contractor chose the Bartec solution to splice reinforcement in all columns and piers (vertical connections) as well as for beams and foundation mats.

Thanks to its parallel thread technology and rebar prepared with various thread lengths, Bartec offers a very high level of performance. It requires only one coupler for both standard applications (when one bar can be rotated inside the coupler) and positional applications (when no bar can be rotated).