The Bonacci Group was successful in a design and construct tender for the PNG Defence Force Hangar at Jacksons Airport, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

The project was won with a number of innovative features, including:

1. the use of lightweight bolted trusses with cold-formed steel sections forming the truss chords.
    
2. the use of a number of longitudinal crane girders fixed under the roof trusses and supporting a transverse monorail, giving crane access over the whole floor area. The longitudinal crane girders also provide bottom chord restraint and transfer end wall wind and seismic loads to a central braced bay.
    
3. the assembly of the roof on the ground complete with cladding, lights and crane, and then jacking the completed roof into position.
    
4. the use of simple details at the top of the doors to cater for roof deflections.

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