With WTM Engineers and its partner having designed a noise protection hangar at Zurich Airport, (commissioned in April 2014), another hangar destined for engine run-ups is under construction at Geneva Airport, which will offer noise protection to inhabitants and commercial premises in the area. WTM Engineers was commissioned with the design planning, structural engineering, acoustics, and studies of the flow mechanics. Furthermore, WTM, together with Thomas Jundt ingénieurs civils, is in charge of the on-site building supervision.
The hangar is being constructed as a wide-span, flat, steel framework structure. On account of the acoustic lining on the inside, the actual steel structure is outside the sound-proofed hangar. The, for technical reasons, unique shape of the building, the exterior framework, the vertically structured lamellas and the movable steel deflection make for a functional, special structure.
Work on the building began in March 2015. Assembly of the exterior steel structure commenced with the positioning of the main frame and an outside wall.
Commissioning of the entire structure is envisaged for November of this year.
