News Bechtel delivers new Sydney airport 7 months early Bechtel says it has delivered Sydney’s new US$3.5bn international airport on budget and nearly seven months early after being appointed as delivery partner in 2018. Passenger and cargo flights are…
News Budapest to get its first airport rail link Hungarian economy minister Márton Nagy has unveiled his government’s plan to build a €1bn railway between Nyugati rail and metro station in western Budapest and Ferenc Liszt International Airport to…
News Skanska lands $250m Boston airport parking garage contract Skanska has landed a $250m contract from the Massachusetts Port Authority to build a new parking garage at Boston’s Logan Airport Terminal E. Replacing the current garage, the new, 67,400-sq-m…
News Skanska starts $98m expansion of Oregon’s Redmond Municipal Airport Skanska this month starts a $98m project to expand Redmond Municipal Airport in Redmond, Oregon. Due to finish in early 2028, the project will add around 7,400 sq m of…
News JetZero to build $4.7bn factory in North Carolina JetZero, the California company shaking up airliner design, plans to build a $4.7bn plane factory at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. The plant will be able to…
News Bouygues team to double capacity of Cyprus airports A consortium led by Bouygues Bâtiment International and including local firm Iacovou Brothers has won a €170m design-build contract for the phase 2 extensions of Larnaka and Pafos airports in…
News Japanese-Singapore team to build tunnels under Changi T5 A joint venture of Japan’s Penta-Ocean Construction Company and Singapore’s Koh Brothers Building & Civil Engineering has won a $780m contract to build connecting tunnels under terminal five at Singapore’s…
News Multiplex completes terminal for Australia’s new airport Multiplex has finished the terminal building at Australia’s newest airport, Western Sydney International (WSI) in the suburb of Badgery’s Creek some 40km west of Sydney’s central business district. Billed as…
News Mexico to invest $6.6bn in airport upgrade programme Mexico plans to raise $6.6bn in public and private funds to upgrade 62 airports by 2030. Tania Carro Toledo, undersecretary for communications and transportation told the National Transportation Infrastructure Forum…
News Poland seeks contractor for its new international airport The company behind Poland’s national transportation upgrade – Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) – is now seeking a contractor to build the 450,000-sq-m terminal building for a new international airport. CPK…
News Singapore finally starts work on $3.5bn Terminal 5 Singapore has finally broken ground on Changi Airport’s Terminal 5, five years after halting it as the covid pandemic erupted. At the time, the government wasn’t sure there would be…
News Kyrgyzstan begins construction on third international airport Kyrgyzstan has started building its third international airport in Jalal-Abad, its third biggest city. As reported by The Times of Central Asia, the 380ha airport will have a two-storey, 10,000-sq-m…
News Bechtel to expand King Salman International Airport in Riyadh Bechtel will be the delivery partner for three new terminals at King Salman International Airport (KSIA) in Saudi Arabia after signing an agreement today. The deal with KSIA Development Company…
News Grimshaw team to design Athens airport expansion The Anemos consortium, formed of the UK’s Arup, Grimshaw and Haptic Architects, Athens’ K-Studio and Denmark’s Triagonal was selected to design the expansion of Athens International Airport (AIA), set to…
News Hill to lead $1bn phase of Athens airport expansion Athens International Airport has appointed Hill International to lead the project management office consortium, including Aecom and Salfo & Associates as partners, for the airport’s ongoing expansion programme. The first…
News Melbourne Airport Rail link back on after $2bn federal boost Melbourne’s long-anticipated airport rail link has taken a step forward, with the Australian federal government confirming it will allocate A$7bn for the project. That includes $5bn previously committed, plus $2bn…
News Hong Kong airport workers protest over unpaid wages Workers demonstrated and blocked cars at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) last week citing lack of payment on a project run by Gammon Construction, a subsidiary of Balfour Beatty and…
News Bjarke Ingels Group designs modular timber airport for Bhutan Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group has designed Bhutan’s second international airport as part of Gelephu Mindfulness City near the Bhutan-Indian border and the Himalayas. The 68,000-sq-m Gelephu International Airport will…