Client
Total Constructions
Location
Adelaide, South Australia
Completed
Due for completion in 2013
Value
$6 million
Role
Structural and civil engineer
Alpha Flight Services is an award-winning in-flight catering company with operations throughout Australia, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.
The company provides catering for many well-known airlines, including Emirates, Etihad, Garuda and Virgin.
Our role
Woolacotts was engaged by Total Constructions on behalf of Alpha Flight Services to provide consulting engineering services for several projects around Australia. One of these projects was a new catering facility in Adelaide.
Woolacotts Consulting Engineers designed and documented the structural and civil engineering
portions of the new purpose built flight catering facilities, and our local team provided services during construction including site inspections.
The facilities contain:
— Administration offices
— Freezer rooms for snap freezing
— Secure rooms for duty free
— Rooms for packaging meals
— Loading docks for catering trucks
— 2400m2 single storey building
— Airside hardstand pavement
— Landslide car parking
— Driveways
Other catering projects
Woolacotts has completed numerous flight catering projects including:
Qantas Flight Catering
Numerous refurbishments and alterations to the Sydney Qantas Flight Catering centre over a 30 year period, including strengthening loading docks to support A380 compatible catering trucks and reconfiguration of cool rooms, as well as alterations and additions to Riverside Catering Facility in Mascot.
Gate Gourmet
Structural advice regarding modifications to catering facilities at Coward Street, Mascot.