The Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port is one of the largest and most com­plex trans­port in­fra­struc­ture pro­jects in Ger­many. The build­ing was de­signed by the renowned ar­chi­tects gmp and JSK In­ter­na­tional. Moni­teurs was al­ready ac­tively in­volved in the pro­ject at the com­pe­ti­tion phase for the com­mu­ni­ca­tions de­sign, and by de­grees was com­mis­sioned to de­sign the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the air­port in­clud­ing its sur­round­ings. A key de­sign fea­ture is the colour red, un­usual for air­ports. This gives clear sig­nals for ori­en­ta­tion, and also har­monises with the ar­chi­tec­ture, with its warm tones of wood and nat­ural stone. At the same time, it is mod­elled on the ap­pear­ance of its home states of Berlin and Bran­den­burg. In many places, the signs are di­rectly em­bed­ded into the ar­chi­tec­tural pan­els – some flow around the cor­ner, and this con­cept is wo­ven into the prod­uct de­sign of the signs out­side the build­ing.

Schöne­feld Air­port has been in ex­is­tence since 1936, has been a civil­ian air­port since the 1950s, and has writ­ten his­tory with its location. And Schöne­feld will re­main in op­er­a­tion for at least five years af­ter the open­ing of the new Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port. Ever more pas­sen­gers de­part from and ar­rive here, and it has just been en­larged to ac­com­mo­date 12 mil­lion pas­sen­gers a year. Moni­teurs has been com­mis­sioned to ex­tend the BER ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem to Schöne­feld Air­port.

Han­nover Air­port is un­der­go­ing a re­build - while it is still in op­er­a­tion. In fu­ture, an air­side cor­ri­dor will con­nect Ter­mi­nals A, B and C. The com­pre­hen­sive mod­ern­iza­tion also in­cludes the re­newal of the guid­ance and ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem.

Changed pas­sen­ger routes, more ser­vices and of­fers as well as the dig­i­tal­iza­tion of the guid­ance sys­tem are the chal­lenges Moni­teurs is fac­ing.