Aviation
Stansted Airport New Divert Stand
Stansted needed somewhere new to park its biggest aircraft. The answer was a brand-new Code 4E stand, built to take wide-bodies with a lead on/off to match, and Galliford Try turned to TAG under an NEC3 Option A contract to build it.
The scope was substantial: shuttering and formwork across the whole footprint, 8,500m² of 175mm-thick dry lean concrete as the base course, and 8,000m² of PQ concrete finished on top of it. TAG also prepared and placed reinforced PQ at the taxiway service crossings and formed a channel for a new Gatic slot drain, work that has to be right first time on an operational airfield.
Every square metre of that concrete was hand laid. On a programme with a short window and no tolerance for slippage, that was a deliberate choice, control over speed, precision over shortcuts.
It paid off. The £180,000 project was handed back with time to spare on the programme, a new stand ready to take aircraft the size the one pictured here, built entirely by hand to the standard Stansted's operations team needed.
Key Facts
Client
Galliford Try
Location
Stansted Airport
Contract value
£180,000
Dry lean concrete placed
8,500m²
PQ concrete placed
8,000m²
