PBB Refurbishment, Relocation & Maintenance Service

Dabico A-Bridge delivers a complete service portfolio covering the full operational life of passenger boarding bridges — from structured preventive maintenance programs through to full structural refurbishment, terminal-to-terminal relocation, and end-of-life replacement. The service is provided by Dabico A-Bridge LLC, the North American PBB specialist within the Dabico Airport Solutions group (itself part of Fernweh Group), holding the sole intellectual property rights to the legacy Dewbridge bridge design and carrying an extensive multi-make, multi-model parts inventory out of its Indianapolis facility.

The core offering is bridge renewal: an existing PBB is stripped to its structural shell, assessed against a defined process developed from decades of refurbishment experience, and rebuilt with current-standard components. Dabico publishes a claimed saving of up to 40% versus a new-bridge procurement — and each renewal avoids approximately 50–65 tonnes of CO₂ emissions and eliminates the need for 200–300 tonnes of coal and 100–150 tonnes of iron ore compared with manufacturing a new unit. Refurbished units are built to the purchaser's operational specification and can extend service life to match or exceed that of a new bridge.

Beyond refurbishment, the service scope includes on-site preventive maintenance contracts (custom-scoped to equipment and operating environment), corrective repair, remote troubleshooting support, engineering assessments against manufacturer service bulletins and safety alerts, and full installation, removal, and relocation project management. The team's 150+ years of combined field experience covers all major OEM makes and models. For airports expanding concourses or reconfiguring gate layouts, relocation of existing serviceable bridges is a structurally and financially efficient alternative to new procurement.

This service is most relevant to mid-life airports managing 10–25-year-old bridge fleets, regional airport capital improvement programs, and airline-leased gate operators whose maintenance contracts are approaching renewal. In GCC and wider Middle East contexts — where airports are expanding rapidly and some early-generation bridges are now due for assessment — a vendor able to provide multi-make independent maintenance and cost-efficient renewal without full replacement is a strategically attractive alternative to the OEM service channel.