Cracks develop in glass wall at Ahmedabad airport’s international terminal

Ahmedabad: The swanky international terminal of the city airport is facing an unexpected problem for the last couple of months. Many of the glass tiles used in the construction of the glass wall at the terminal have developed cracks on their own, for no apparent reason. Some officials of the Airport Authority of India, however, blame the labourers working at the airport for the cracked tiles, while some others say the tiles had cracked because of the increasing summer heat.
Sources at the airport said that at least a dozen glass tiles had cracked in the last couple of months.
"There is still a lot of construction work going on at the terminal. We are sure some workers have been hitting on the glass wall for fun or throwing things at it during play. But we are yet to find out why so many glass tiles have got broken," said a senior engineering department official at the airport.
Another senior official, however, said that the glass tiles had developed cracks because of the growing summer heat. There was no other explanation for the rapidity with which the tiles were cracking, he said.

A third group of officials believes that the quality of the glass used in the construction of the glass wall was not upto the mark.
05/04/11 Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports Apr 2011