Skip to main content

Trimble wins Beijing Airport deal

Trimble has won a major contract in China, which forms part of the airport capacity expansion for Beijing. The new Beijing airport facility is expected to handle up to 72 million travellers, 2 million tonnes of freight and 620,000 flights by 2025. This is a massive construction project requiring a huge investment in civil aviation by the Chinese Government. In order to construct the airport efficiently, safely and within a strict timeframe while achieving optimum quality, the Beijing New Airport Project is
December 10, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
2122 Trimble has won a major contract in China, which forms part of the airport capacity expansion for Beijing. The new Beijing airport facility is expected to handle up to 72 million travellers, 2 million tonnes of freight and 620,000 flights by 2025. This is a massive construction project requiring a huge investment in civil aviation by the Chinese Government. In order to construct the airport efficiently, safely and within a strict timeframe while achieving optimum quality, the Beijing New Airport Project is using innovative technology from Trimble to integrate construction and operations.

Trimble was chosen by the Beijing New Airport Project to implement a browser-based, locally-hosted digital construction information management system for tracking and monitoring construction operations in real-time. The Trimble solution allows users to create 3D constructible models, perform soil stabilisation, automate construction processes and effectively manage information. Based on the successful soil stabilisation results using Trimble machine control over the past four months, another 15 systems have been ordered.

“The research results for dynamic compaction have been extremely promising,” said Li Qiang, chief engineer of the Beijing New Airport Construction Office. “As a result, the project is pushing forward with a larger scale deployment to further the research into creating new methods and standards for airfield construction.”

“The Beijing New Airport Project is a significant win for Trimble and we are very excited about the success of the project,” said Steve Berglund, president and CEO of Trimble. “The contract extension validates Trimble’s ability to provide innovative solutions that transform work processes by maximising management capability, ensuring construction quality and improving productivity.”

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Continued connectivity reflect Trimble launches
    April 16, 2012
    Three new solutions from Trimble Heavy Civil Construction designed to connect the construction site and lead to increased efficiency and reduced costs has been unveiled at the show. The solutions for heavy civil construction professionals include the Trimble Connected Office, the Trimble Connected Controller and the Trimble Connected Machine.
  • Trimble technology could slice a third off the new highway costs in Indonesia’s US$400 billion infrastructure plan
    February 21, 2014
    Cutting-edge Sandvik Construction equipment is said to be giving ambitious Argentinian quarry firm Canteras Amadeo a commercial advantage .Starting life as a one-quarry enterprise in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1999, Canteras Amadeo is a flourishing business with additional operations in Cordoba and Santiago del Estero. Key to its success is said to be its owners’ embrace of technological improvement, and their choice of Sandvik equipment to improve their processes.
  • Conference focuses on road design software
    February 23, 2012
    Trimble Dimensions 2009 takes a hard look at opportunities in a tough economy If attendance is the standard by which user conferences are measured, then Trimble Dimensions 2009 should be considered a success. The conference, which took place from 23-25 February at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, USA, hosted more than 2,400 attendees, slightly exceeding last year. The strong attendance, in the face of global economic concerns, was seen by Trimble CEO Steven Berglund as a show of support for the company's tech
  • Conference focuses on road design software
    April 12, 2012
    Trimble Dimensions 2009 takes a hard look at opportunities in a tough economy If attendance is the standard by which user conferences are measured, then Trimble Dimensions 2009 should be considered a success. The conference, which took place from 23-25 February at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, USA, hosted more than 2,400 attendees, slightly exceeding last year. The strong attendance, in the face of global economic concerns, was seen by Trimble CEO Steven Berglund as a show of support for the company's tech