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.

Kuwait International Airport is the country’s main airport located in the South of Kuwait City. The Hub can currently handle more than 9 million passengers per year, and is home to the famous Kuwait Airlines, Jazeera Airways, and Wataniya Airways.

A new state-of-the-art terminal

This newest infrastructure is part of the Airport’s expansion project, aiming to enhance its status as the State of Kuwait’s gateway. When complete, the Terminal II building will form a triangular mark, a symbol of Kuwait reflecting the country’s rich culture and civilization.
Scheduled for completion in 2020, this striking five-storey terminal building will be able to handle 25 million passengers a year, and will be connected to the first terminal via a tunnel.

From the foundations to the roofs

For this project, the lead Turkish contractor Limak Holding and its Kuwaiti agent Kharafi National have chosen Dextra’s Rolltec rebar coupler solution for rebar splicing in all the building’s concrete structures. Thanks to its rolled-parallel threaded system, as well as its simple preparation and installation process, this splicing solution can help shorten construction cycle times.

For the Terminal’s impressive structure, the contractors have also opted for Dextra’s high-performance smooth Post-Tensioning bar systems. Thanks to its smooth carbon steel bars and its rolled threads, the very high-tensile PT Bar system features high fatigue and strength performance, as well as a high impact resistance.

For more information about our products, both in rebar splicing and engineered bar systems, please contact Dextra team in Dubai.

Mexico City New International Airport is a new infrastructure project designed by Sir Normal Forter and launched in 2014. It is aiming to provide Mexico’s capital with a new state-of-the-art airport hub by 2020. The project is located to the East of Mexico City. The project will install an annual passenger capacity of 68 million passengers, more than the previous Benito Juarez Airport (41.7 million passengers annually, already the busiest airport of Latin America). The project features a X-shaped passenger terminal, 3 runways and a control tower.

For this, the largest infrastructure project in Latin America, Dextra has been involved with the supply of its Bartec Rebar Couplers for the foundations of the terminal building (contractor ICA), the transport building (contractor Sacyr) and the control tower (contractor Aldesa).

Bartec coupler, often prefered in seismic areas such as Mexico, substitute on this project all reinforcement lapping of large ASTM #12 rebar (equivalent 38mm). On such large diameters, it is both faster and cheaper to connect bars with couplers rather than traditionnal overlapping.

Dextra has provided Mexico Airport with up to 10 sets of Bartec equipment (a total of 30 machines, with each set delivered in a container) for all rebar preparation operations. The impressive setup has been supported by our local After Sales team, training the machine operators and maintaining equipment to achieve optimal productivity.