Novapoint Civil Construction

Ewald Kjølbro, LANDSVERK
PILOT PROJECT IN 3D
NEW AIRPORT IN THE FAER
The Faeroese Road Directorate, LANDSVERK, is responsible for managing
the public construction of roads, harbors, airports, tunnels and buildings
in the Faeroe Islands.
LANDSVERK owns, plans and maintains all main roads. There are
approximately 1,000 kilometers road system in the Faeroe Islands, of
which circa 500 kilometers are main roads.
Furthermore, the approximately 200 employees manage authority functions in relation to harbors,
roads, tunnels, airports and are also in charge of planning the Faeroese in-frastructure. The
infrastructure (road system, bridges, tunnels, harbors) in the Faeroe Islands is to be expanded
for a total amount of 103 mio. DKK in 2009.
The current, and only, airport in the Faeroe Islands, Vágar Airport, is located on Vágar Island. The
airport has scheduled departures to several destinations with the largest faeroese airline: Atlantic
Airways.
LANDSVERK employ Novapoint for road planning. That is why it is natural to use the program as
a planning tool for preliminary studies of possible locations for a new airport in the Faeroe Islands.
The runway on the current airport is too small and a lar-ger and longer runway is needed in order
to transport imported goods with larger transportation planes.
A preliminary study examines whether a project is doable in the prospective terrain. Such studies
are especially comprehensive in the Faeroe Islands because of the very demanding terrain
conditions with large altitude differences. This results in special challenges when planning new
roads and – of course – airports.
LANDSVERK has performed a preliminary study on Vágar, north of Vágar Airport. Here it is possible
that a new runway can expand the airport sufficiently. This will save a great deal of costs
because they do not have to build a completely new airport.
CONSTRUCTION OF MODEL
A terrain model has been formed on the basis of terrain data: contour lines, break lines and
datum points. The runway is calculated in 3D via Novapoint functions after which it can be added
to the model. From the very beginning the model has been put in No-vapoint Virtual Map. This
means that you can move around inside the model.
Placing an ortophoto over the terrain makes it possible to see the potential location of the new,
2.6 kilometer long, runway. The present runway is visible in the right side of the image.
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