Linden Comansa travels to "El Dorado"

Three Flat-Top tower cranes from the LC500 series are working on the enlargement of the "El Dorado" International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia

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As well as being Colombia’s most important airport, "El Dorado" is Latin America’s busiest in cargo movements, and the third in passenger traffic. In 2010, almost 19 million people used this airport, which facilities were getting too small to absorb such volume of passengers.

Although at the beginning of the works the intension was to remodel and extend the existent facility, current and future traffic demands changed the plan in 2008, which turned into demolish some buildings and built a practically new airport.

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The consortium OPAIN S.A., the company in charge of the works and that will manage the airport’s operations until 2027, is focused nowadays in the construction of Terminal 2. Since May 2010, three 5 LC 5010 tower cranes from Linden Comansa, with maximum loads of 4 and 5 tonnes and 50 meters of jib length, are working in duties of foundation, placement of reinforced concrete structures, permanent movement of materials, etc. In addition, one of the cranes has been used altogether with a mobile crane for the lifting of the metallic main girders of the cover, each one with weight of 7 tonnes, which supposed one of the most complex tasks of the works.

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All the cranes of this jobsite have been supplied by GIGACON, Linden Comansa’s official dealer in Colombia. Gigacon has been involved in construction and load lifting for more than 35 years, and is one of the biggest crane rental companies in the country.

After the construction of Terminal 2, the old boarding building will be demolished and the construction of Terminal 1 will begin. The "El Dorado" Airport will have capacity for 28 million passengers when all the works finish in 2014, after an estimated total investment of more than 11.000 million of Colombian pesos (more than 4.000 million € or 5.500 million of US dollars).

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