Charles De Gaulle Airport

Overview

Acting as sub-contractors to Watson Steel Ltd, JLC were commissioned to prepare the general arrangement and fabrication details of the most recent addition to the new group of elliptical “Aerogare 2” terminal buildings at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport.

The curved Corps Central is formed from 15 independent roof structures. A careful and skilled approach to our work ensured a repetitive modular fabrication process, comprising of 1 gable shell (repeated twice), 1 standard shell (repeated 10 times), 1 non-standard shell (repeated twice), and a central infill shell.

This huge undertaking involved the electronic creation of some 8950 drawings for a structure that comprised of some 4000 tonnes. Had our modular approach not been adopted, it is estimated the number of drawings could have been as many as 19000.