News Ferrovial sells Heathrow stake for $3bn Spanish construction group Ferrovial yesterday said it had agreed to sell its 25% stake in FGP Topco, the parent company of Heathrow Airport Holdings, for £2.4bn ($3bn). There are two…
News Turner & Townsend appointed delivery partner for Irish airports Irish airport operator daa has appointed Turner & Townsend as its integrated delivery partner on a five-year framework. It is joined in the framework by Aecom, Arup, and logistics specialist…
News Foster + Partners designs new terminal at Saudi Arabia’s Abha Airport Foster + Partners has won a design competition for a new terminal at Abha Airport in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Aseer province. The buildings will be arranged in interconnected, human-scale clusters…
News Aecom signed on to rebuild Ukraine’s biggest airport Aecom has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s biggest airport to serve as its reconstruction delivery partner. Boryspil International near Kyiv is still closed amid Russia’s invasion, and was…
News Korean companies sign deal to help modernise Kyiv’s Boryspil International Airport Hyundai Engineering & Construction and Korea Airports Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding to modernise Boryspil International Airport to the southeast of Kyiv. According to the deal, Korea Airport…
News Egis teams up with Saudi airport-tech firm French consultant Egis has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nera, A Saudi Arabian technical consultant to the aviation sector, to provide expertise in air traffic management and airport development,…
News China starts work on $4.3bn offshore airport Work has started on a $4.3bn international airport off the coast of Dalian, a port city in Liaoning Province, northern China, Xinhua reports.
News MVRDV’s ‘Czech lantern’ design chosen for Prague airport extension Dutch architect MVRDV and Netherlands Airport Consultants (NACO) have won a competition to design a three-building extension to Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague. Two buildings will contain a security area,…
News Vinci team takes 49% stake in Poland’s new airport company A team of Vinci Airports and Australia’s IFM Global Infrastructure Fund has been chosen as preferred investor for Poland’s new international airport. They were picked by Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK),…
News Turner to raise the roof with Seattle airport expansion Hochtief’s US subsidiary Turner Construction has won a $399m contract to expand C Concourse at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). Starting next year Turner will nearly triple the concourse’s floor area…
News Thailand’s Chiang Mai airport to double capacity Chiang Mai Airport in northern Thailand is planning to increase its capacity from 8 million to 16.5 million visitors a year, reports the National News Bureau.
News Vietnam chooses contractors for $16bn Long Thanh Airport The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has chosen the Vietur consortium led by Turkish contractor IC Içtas to build the $1.5bn terminal for Long Thanh International Airport, website VNExpress reports. …
News Turner starts Albany airport expansion Turner Construction has begun the long-awaited, $100m expansion of New York’s Albany International Airport. Designed by architect Gensler and engineer CHA, the project aims to increase passenger-handling capacity and eliminate…
News Construction paused at Vancouver airport after Musqueam artefacts discovered Construction work at Vancouver International Airport has been paused after the discovery of artefacts belonging to the Musqueam first nations group. The pieces are reported by Global News Canada as…
News Toulouse development revives 1920s aviation heydey Dutch architect KCAP and France’s V2S Architectes have won an international design competition for a mixed-use complex in the new ZAC Aerospace neighbourhood on the edge of Toulouse. A 25m-wide…
News Atkins, IATA create carbon-measuring tools for airports Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has teamed up with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create digital tools for airports to estimate the embodied carbon in new…
News Stealthy night moves raise the roof at Portland airport The high-profile expansion of Portland International Airport (PDX) in Oregon has won fame for its vast, wavy roof made largely from Douglas fir from local forests. The project will nearly…
News CPB to expand Brisbane airport’s international terminal Cimic Group subsidiary CPB Contractors has won a contract from Brisbane Airport Corporation to plan, then deliver, the expansion and upgrading of security, retail, and administrative facilities at the airport’s…