French infrastructure company Egis is celebrating the inauguration of terminal buildings at three Indian airports: Trichy, Pune, and Lucknow. It provided design and project management consultancy on the projects. Indian…

Norwegian state airport operator Avinor has chosen Swedish construction group Ratos to build a greenfield airport inside the Arctic Circle. Bodø Airport will be built by its HENT subsidiary, which…

Portugal will start negotiating with France’s Vinci about building and running Lisbon’s €9bn international airport in the next few days, Portuguese newspaper CM reports.  Ground could break by the end…

Vinci Construction’s Australian subsidiary Seymour Whyte has won a €96m contract to improve road access to Melbourne Airport. The contractor will upgrade the airport’s forecourt and build a 550m bridge…

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has revealed its design for Satellite Concourse 1 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. SOM’s design is inspired by the orchard field that gave O’Hare its…

American contractor Tutor Perini has won a $229m package to carry out construction work at three terminals of Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in southern Florida. The scope of work includes…

Balfour Beatty US has started work on the $340m Concourse B project at Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) in Florida. As general contractor, it will deliver a new concourse and an…

Africa’s biggest carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, has opened its bigger domestic terminal at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport after a $50m expansion. The project doubled the terminal’s size to 25,750 sq…

The US Senate has passed a bill that would allow $105bn to be spent on airport improvements. The bipartisan bill was approved by the upper house by 88 votes to…

Nicaragua plans to use a loan from China to turn its Punta Huete military airbase near Managua into an international airport, with work scheduled to start in July. Laureano Ortega…

Skanska has won a $40m contract from the Massachusetts Port Authority to renovate the 250,000-sq-ft Terminal B Garage at Boston Logan International Airport. The aim is to improve the flow…

Dubai has started building the world’s largest-capacity airport terminal complex at Al Maktoum International, the emirate’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said yesterday. The five terminal buildings…

Swedish builder Peab has won a $300m contract to build the New Bodø Airport in Norway’s Arctic Circle from state airport operator Avinor. Peab will build a new runway, taxiways…

Morocco wants to upgrade 20 of its airports by 2045 and has put out an international tender for a consultant to draw up a blueprint. Commissioned by the General Directorate…

A French court yesterday rejected a claim of nearly €1.6bn in damages made by Vinci in relation to the cancellation of an airport project near Nantes, website BMF Business reports.…

Bulgaria’s national rail company will build a railway in the Black Sea city of Burgas linking Burgas Airport to the city’s central railway station, with an estimated cost of €53m,…

China’s MAD Architects has designed the Lishui Airport in Zhejiang Province, with a roof overhang giving it the appearance of a big silver bird ready to take off over the…

A consortium led by Turner Construction has landed a $855m design-and-build contract for a concourse and automated Skylink Station at Dallas Fort Worth airport. The Innovation Next+ team includes Archer…