Airport Roof Structures For Hangars And Wide Span Buildings

Asteca Estructuras, Inc. is a company that designs, calculates, manufactures and assembles metallic structures. It is specialized in Space Truss structures designed with the NUCLOS structural system. This system consists of steel tubes and spheres.

The company is endorsed by more than 35 years of experience in the field of metal structures and numerous executions all around the world, mainly in Spain. Asteca has solutions for a wide range of applications such as airport facilities, industrial bays, stations and depots, sport arenas, exhibition sites, leisure centers and malls…

Focused on the airports, the Space Truss is very suitable for Hangars due to the large spans needed such as the Iberia maintenance Hangar at Barcelona international airport with 155 meters free of pillars. This structure also holds 4 overhead travelling platforms of 60 tons each.

Other benefits of the Space Truss apart from the large spans and big loads hanging possibility are the following ones:

Light weight structure. This provides a less strict limitation about the protection against fire compared to other metallic structures.
Maximum level of prefabrication. The manufacture at the workshop is much more productive than at the construction site, and the quality has a higher guarantee.

Easy assembly. No adjustments or corrections at the construction site.
Independence in the assembly order of the elements. This means that anything can be changed even after the assembly of the whole set. Assemble or disassemble any bar without considering the rest of the structure, so it is not necessary a preset order of assembly.

Great versatility of architectural and structural solutions. Our company advises many constructive solutions to suit your needs. Once the optimum geometry is defined considering aesthetical appearance and technical capability, the loads affecting the spatial structure are analyzed and finally a project is developed to define the elements (tubes, spheres, etc ...) of the Space Truss.

Our job consists in making projects together with engineer and architect studios, to get to the execution of the works: From the draft to the assembly.
Asteca has made the structures for Hangars, heliports, connections between terminals, fingers to the runways, radio altimeters supports…
We know that the aesthetical appearance is a determining factor and with the Space Truss we can generate all the geometrical forms that better suits the requirements of the client.