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Berlin's Futuristic Airport Case Study

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How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport became a $6 Billion Embarrassment
The airport billed $6 billion, Europe’s ‘most modern’ airport was supposed to be built to handle 27 million passengers a year. But in the inspection of the airport before issuing the operating certificate, the officers could not believe the ignorance of the airport makers. The confusion and the improper management of the things became a $6 billion embarrassment for Berlin.
The $6 billion airport was being checked by the officers from safety and aviation department. The team of ORAT (Operations Readiness and Airport Transfer) was checking the Berlin Brandenburg International Willy Brandt Airport with the help of a dummy airplane and few dummy passengers who were the volunteers. …show more content…

According to their plan, they would hire 800 low-paid workers. All the workers with their cell phone will stand all over the airport and with a single smell of smoke or fire the forces would direct the passengers towards the exit and would inform others also. Since he network was not reliable and the workers could see smoke only 6 feet above the ground, Martin Delius, called this plan the most idiotic one.
Rainer Schwarz continued the preparations for the inauguration of the airport. Schwarz was confident about opening an airport with human fired detectors. But Loge, found this idea very bad and impractical and hence refused to issue the operating license to the airport. Schwarz was upset with this decision. And he had to announce that the airport would not open on the scheduled date.
To redesign the airport properly, Meinhard von Gerkan was hired by FBB who was Germany’s most famous architect. Gerkan capitulated Schwarz’s demands of building the airport. Among all these problems and difficulties the area of the airport increased from 200,000 to 340,000 square feet. Several architects and engineers were constantly trying to build the airport. Lots of electronics and engineering companies were trying their best to have a control over the fire protection

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