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The construction of two new airports at Nuuk and Ilulissat in Greenland, led by Munck Civil Engineering, is due to be completed by 2024.
The construction work for these airports will include a runway, two taxi runways, a tower function in a tower building, a terminal area with an apron, building plots for the terminal and service buildings, parking in terminal area, rerouting and connection to access roads from Nuuk City, the execution of foundations and masts for lights, earthworks for cabling in railway and terminal area, fencing of airport, water and sewer pipeline and rerouting of raw water pipeline.
At Nuuk, a new 2,200m runway will be created and will be fixed on the pre-existing runway. For the terminals, the existing terminal and AFIS Tower will be demolished, and new buildings will be built.
At Ilulissat there will also be a 2,200m runway created. This will be an extension on to the 845m runway that is already there. This runway will be fitted landing equipment.
The new buildings at Ilulissat will include a terminal building, service building and an AFIS tower.
For these extensive projects the Munck Group have employed the use of products from Survipod Engineering Solutions based in County Wexford, Ireland.
For this project the Munck Group have invested in a total of 8 Survipod Boltfixes. This product is used for control, layout and monitoring across both sites for the new airports. The Survipod Boltfix is bolted into the ground and the instrument of choice is screwed onto the stainless-steel thread on top of the Boltfix. www.survipod.com
Photograph by Aaron McKevitt Coordinating Surveyor at Munck Gruppen
Topcon Positioning has announced its MC-Max machine control solution. Based on its MC-X machine control platform, and backed by Sitelink3D – the company’s real-time, cloud-based data management ecosystem – MC-Max is a scalable solution for mixed fleet heavy equipment environments. It is designed to adapt to owners’ machine control and data integration needs as their fleets and workflows expand.
MC-Max increases processing power, speed, accuracy, versatility and reliability; and can be installed on a full range of dozers and excavators, using the same basic modular components.
Modern, redesigned user and product interfaces were developed based on real-world applications and customer feedback and provide a simplified and immersive user experience that allows operators to learn the system easily.
The MC-Max offers flexible mounting solutions, as well as optional automatic blade and bucket control for a variety of machines.
The system also provides a full battery of positioning technologies ranging from slope control to laser, multi-constellation GNSS, robotic total station and millimetre GPS systems.
It provides project managers a real-time view of machine positions, activities and onsite progress, and is compatible with a wide range of site communications systems.
The Topcon MC-X Platform makes machine control easy to use and affordable for all contractors.
The platform ties together mixed fleets by interacting with multiple versions of 3D-MC, providing connectivity to Sitelink3D and taking advantage of the multi-constellation capabilities of GNSS antennas. www.topconpositioning.com/gb