Aircraft hangars belong to the most technically demanding building projects in steel construction.
We’ve been building with steel since 1925. Steel forms the foundation of our company’s success – and, even more importantly, the solid and reliable basis of our buildings.
Our expertise focuses on the construction of halls: industrial halls, commercial halls, warehouses, production facilities, workshops, and much more. When it comes to ideas and possibilities, there are virtually no limits. And we like to say: the more complex, larger, and more challenging – the better.
What Makes Aircraft Hangars Unique
Aircraft hangars, or hangar structures, live up to this motto perfectly. For us, they are something like the premier class of steel construction, and therefore always something special.
The demands placed on structure and materials are high: impressive dimensions, great heights, column-free interior spaces, and extreme spans – all conditions under which both we and our favorite material, steel, can fully showcase our strengths.
What Matters in Aircraft Hangar Construction
Hangar construction requires high load-bearing capacity, optimized planning, and the ideal use of materials to implement the necessary clear-span structures with precision. The result: impressive constructions that still appear remarkably light. Heavy steel construction made easy.
From Vision to Reality
This is how structures such as a 219 x 65 meter aircraft hangar for jet maintenance come to life. A total of 1,800 tons of steel and barrel-shaped, double-chord truss girders spaced at 10.8 meters enable a column-free span of 65 meters.
Or a 110 x 70 meter hangar using 1,100 tons of steel, in which the dimensions of the roof structure are particularly striking: with only one pair of columns in the center of the hall, the truss design is otherwise completely free-spanning. The main truss girder spans 55 meters and reaches a height of 10 meters. For the sliding door, the truss structure integrates the guide rail for a door measuring 100 meters in length and 15 meters in height.
Planning and Execution from a Single Source
For projects like these, we provide support from start to finish: structural engineering, connection design, detailed workshop planning, manufacturing, delivery, and installation – including façade work (roof and wall) as well as the installation of doors, gates, and windows.
And since it’s not only big birds that need plenty of space, but also ocean giants and large-scale industrial facilities, we gladly apply our heavy steel construction expertise beyond the aviation sector as well — for example, when roofing a dry dock for a shipyard.
Detailed information about steel hall construction can be found here.
