Infrastructure, Construction & Developments

[TheLocalYokel]

Thank you for that Jono. There has been a suggestion earlier in this thread from one of our members who has a good knowledge of BRS operations that stand 26 might be used for the 787, the stand it used on its recent visit.

 

[big g]

Just a thought on this big hole and reinforcing going in the ground in /next to the short stay car park, looking at the finished plans layout for the airport the road layout will change to accommodate the multi car park and run in front of the new hotel, so could this work be for new (later on) over head road signage. As they do like to put large mass at the base of these things!

This is about the best set of plans I can fined showing all new builds,

http://wam.n-somerset.gov.uk/MULTIW...&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1&sid=

it also shows how and where they will end up putting two 787 on this plan it will be stands 6, 7, & 8 parking for two but using three stands.

Just to note that is Future stands 6,7,8 also showing stands 13,14 as 787 compatible, and it will be a long way off before the layout is changed as per the plans. With the current layout, currently stand 26 is able to take the 787 possibly stand 29 as its not far off the length of the 767-300.
Stands 5,6,4R the old stands 4,5 are to small and you would also need to block off stands 8,9 to put the 787 on stand 4R, in doing this it would take four stands out of use for the duration of the turnaround.

 

[kraktoa]

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A view of the hotel stack and the new security extension taken from the western walkway.

 

[kraktoa]

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A view of the hotel prefab inside containers stacked presumably not too far from the assembly site.

 

[Ornsack]

Nice to see an update (and a glimpse of the extension!)

I presumed this was the assembly site? Or not quite?

 

[Kingshat]

The containers are the hotel rooms and they are now in their permanent position.

 

[kraktoa]

The containers are the hotel rooms and they are now in their permanent position.

So i assume they dismantle the steel containers surrounding each room. Must be hard work to prise it out and leave the rooms inside intact.

If that is the final location, its quite close to the terminal and the main road. Rooms facing the terminal will have far too much light from forecourt and noise of vehicles at night. Wont be popular rooms.

 

[kraktoa]

Many stakeholders have been asked to vacate the staff car park at the old terminal and park in the silver zone, causing considerable disquite. Large space in the middle of car park in old terminal has been cordoned off. The cranes and other moving equipment for the hotel construction will be housed here.

 

[Ornsack]

So i assume they dismantle the steel containers surrounding each room. Must be hard work to prise it out and leave the rooms inside intact.

If that is the final location, its quite close to the terminal and the main road. Rooms facing the terminal will have far too much light from forecourt and noise of vehicles at night. Wont be popular rooms.

The steel remains. The rooms are inside, and they board up (and on the outside, concrete up) the steel to cover it.

I presume this will also give a decent amount of sound protection. I guess that's part and parcel of hotels on airport sites.

Someone posted this video on here a few days back that should explain things better (different hotel but same process) -

 

[kraktoa]

Thanks for the video. Explains it beautifully.

Wonder how good the mobile signal will be inside that metal box. I am feeling claustrophobic now. Lol

 

[big g]

Thanks for the video. Explains it beautifully.

Wonder how good the mobile signal will be inside that metal box. I am feeling claustrophobic now. Lol

There not as bad as you think, I've stayed at the Travelodge in LHR a number of times and until I looked on the CIMC website I never knew I was staying in a container.

 

[Jono577]

Also they are bigger than a standard shipping container, they only look like them.

 

[Ornsack]

Wonder how good the mobile signal will be inside that metal box. I am feeling claustrophobic now. Lol

Haha! Plus I'd be worried there'd be a massive "CLANG" every time I move 😉

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I noticed today that there is now large scale excavating along the northern side of the main airport approach road between the A 38 roundabout and the 'old terminal' roundabout. This seems an extension of the earlier work to the west of the latter roundabout which is now largely filled in - drainage and/or other preparatory work for an extended surface car park?

 

[superking]

it was said a few years back that the old terminal would be flattened,and part used for staff car parking and part for extra aircraft stands. dont know if this is still the plan.with the rather large trench being dug and done with what ever,seems a little over the top for car park drainage.thats my thoughts about things going on.

 

[g3jetman]

I think you will find that the excavations going on near the airport exit is an additional exit lane. It will be a 2 lane exit on to the A38...works will take about 5 weeks!

 

[Jono577]

The plans i linked to in a previous post show that some road widening is to be done at this point up to the first roundabout, so maybe this?

 

[Sierra3]

Reading on UK airport news elsewhere, see that both EZY & RYR are experimenting (or about to) with 'connections' at Gatwick & Stansted. Also 'self connecting' is also growing at LGW we are led to believe.
Casting my mind back to the days of BACON (think they did the odd bit of connecting traffic); could BRS is its new redeveloped format actually handle formal or informal connections, say DOM to INT or even INT to INT?
If it ever happened it'd probably be EZY with a bigger range of destinations, though suppose BMR could do a few.

First post on this site, but I lurk elsewhere on such sites.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Reading on UK airport news elsewhere, see that both EZY & RYR are experimenting (or about to) with 'connections' at Gatwick & Stansted. Also 'self connecting' is also growing at LGW we are led to believe.
Casting my mind back to the days of BACON (think they did the odd bit of connecting traffic); could BRS is its new redeveloped format actually handle formal or informal connections, say DOM to INT or even INT to INT?
If it ever happened it'd probably be EZY with a bigger range of destinations, though suppose BMR could do a few.

First post on this site, but I lurk elsewhere on such sites.

First of all, welcome to Forums4Airports, Sierra3. We hope that you will become a regular poster.

As to your specific question about the capability of BRS to handle formal Domestic to International or Int to Int connections I'd have to leave to our members who work at the airport. I would have thought that there would be enough physical space once the western extension is finished but it would doubtless mean some internal rejigging of work space.

 

[kraktoa]

The new overspill terminal, called international terminal 2 has just the config for this. International passengers can complete passport control and go to the departures lounge directly through a side door. They will have to cater for interline baggage transfers but pax wont have to clear security again. Domestic pax with flight connections could presumably do the same but wont need to clear passport control. However how they will separate the domestic transfer passengers from international transfers and prevent mixing is a problematic question.

Never been utlised yet but there is scope for the future.