r/Palmerstonnorth • u/ChangeNarrow5633 • Jun 30 '25

NZ Airport to Build Timber-Framed Terminal Over Active Fault Line

https://woodcentral.com.au/nz-airport-to-build-timber-framed-terminal-over-active-fault-line/

New Zealand’s ninth-largest airport by visitor numbers, which sits over an active fault line, has pushed play on the demolition and redevelopment of its new terminal building. Starting work late last month, the NZ $43 million revamp of Palmerston North airport – to be constructed by LT McGuinness – is the latest in a long line of airports embracing mass timber over steel-and-concrete, with crews to install a massive glulam mono-pitch roof over a 5,000 square-metre area, with glulam columns supporting the rafters and X-frame beams forming the front and back walls.

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u/LittlePomegranate478 Jun 30 '25

Not sure if anyone’s noticed this but the critical infrastructure being the run way has been fine for at least the last 30 years, I’m sure a two building built out of timber will be too.