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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bechtel has been appointed capital portfolio partner for Perth Airport’s A$5bn expansion and upgrade programme. The programme involves a suite of major projects, including expanding its terminals, building a new…

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has rounded on contractors building the country’s $16bn Long Thanh International Airport, demanding that they stop gossiping and eat “quickly” and sleep “urgently”, newspaper…

The government of Portugal has asked France’s Vinci to submit a proposal for the construction and operation of a new international airport for Lisbon, the Aviacionline website reports. Portugal wants…

A joint venture between Turner Construction and the Weitz Company has reached structural completion on a $445m expansion of Des Moines International Airport in Iowa. The project will increase the…

A site has been selected for Poland’s new international airport between the capital city of Warsaw and Łódź. It will be the central node in the country’s comprehensive overhaul of…