EDI's new ATC tower taking shape

Renfrew – perhaps they also placed it landside so that ATC doesnt have to gain access Air Side for normal operations therefore eliminating some security aspects – but having said that the tower will need to be secure in first place!

Looks like a chess piece

It does indeed.. 😮

See my avatar for the ‘finished’ tower. 🙂

Looks like a chess piece, what are the odds on locals referring to it as that when it’s done ? :p

A concrete tower is usually built using a process called “slip-forming”. There is a ring of shuttering which forms a mould for concrete to be poured into. Steel re-inforcing bars are used to make the structure more rigid. The shuttering is slowly raised vertically as the tower is built in stages.

See my avatar for the ‘finished’ tower. 🙂

Why did they decide to build it land side amongst the public carparks?

BAA’s first planning attempt airside fell foul of the CAA
evidently. 😮

Why did they decide to build it land side amongst the public carparks?

A concrete tower is usually built using a process called “slip-forming”. There is a ring of shuttering which forms a mould for concrete to be poured into. Steel re-inforcing bars are used to make the structure more rigid. The shuttering is slowly raised vertically as the tower is built in stages.

concrete dan :p

A control tower must be incredibly difficult to build, especially the kind we’re talking about here with a long thin tower, then a large part sitting on top. I wonder how they do it….