Scheduled for imminent completion, the 280m-long Skybridge is an elevated ‘scenic walkway’ that will link Perth Airport (the largest in Western Australia) to a new train station (currently being constructed).
It will feature four ‘iwalk’ moving walkways made by Thyssen Krupp Elevator.
Installation of the iwalks started in August 2019, and two of them will — at 92m — be the longest iwalks that Thyssen Krupp has manufactured; the other two are 38m long.
Thyssen Krupp technicians (
www.thyssenkrupp.com) put two iwalks into operation at Melbourne Airport’s Terminal 4 just in time for the Christmas season.
Given the extremely tight timeline, they were flown from Spain and delivered in less than 20 weeks from the date the order was received — two more are scheduled for installation in March.
Thyssen Krupp Elevator had sales of 8 billion euros in the 2018/2019 financial year, more than 50,000 employees, and customers in over 100 countries.
The company’s ‘portfolio’ includes passenger and freight elevators, escalators and moving walkways, passenger boarding bridges, stair lifts and platform lifts.