"Concrete supplied by Lafarge for Charles de Gaulle terminal met standards"

Friday, July 9, 2004

Concrete supplied by Lafarge for Charles de Gaulle terminal met
standards
M2 Communications


Concrete supplied by Lafarge for the construction of a Paris airport
terminal that collapsed in May reportedly met French standards and the
airport's technical specifications. 

An official report into the collapse of the terminal at Paris' Charles
de Gaulle airport on 23 May 2004 said that weakness in the concrete used
for the roof of Terminal 2E was the main cause of its collapse, in which
four people were killed. 

Lafarge's subsidiary Beton de Paris and a consortium of companies which
pre-cast the concrete shells for the terminal's vault conducted checks
which confirmed the product delivered conformed to the order
specifications. 

The French Transport Ministry has stated that it is still not completely
clear why the roof collapsed more than two years after it was built,
reported Reuters.


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