International contractor Leighton Holdings has won a $370 million contract to build an integrated transport facility and new airline terminal as part of a $10 billion capacity upgrade for Melbourne airport.
In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, Leighton said the project encompasses the construction of a seven storey car park, elevated access roads and ramps, an underground service tunnel, electrical substation and ancillary infrastructure.
In addition, work on the airport’s new Terminal Four will be delivered through a joint venture with its subsidiary, Broad Construction. This include baggage handling and reclaim facilities, check-in kiosks and associated infrastructure, staff amenities, retail areas and connections to existing concourses.
Set to be built at the southern end of the airport on approximately 20,000sqm of land between the existing Terminal 3 and Terminal 4 buildings, the new terminal will be able to handle 10 million passengers each year upon its anticipated completion in 2015.
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These works are part of the first stage of the airport’s Southern Precinct Project, with future stages expected to expand the new terminal to 35,000sqm to cater for 20 million passengers.
In turn, this project falls under the airport’s broader 20-year master plan, the draft of which was unveiled in May this year.
This master plan, which foreshadows infrastructure inclusions of a third runway and elevated loop road, is part of a strategy to boost the airport’s capacity to cater for an anticipated 35 million new passengers between now and 2033.
Meanwhile, Leighton’s Middle Eastern subsidiary has won an $AED275 million project to build the next state of a convention centre in Dubai, where it will fit out one of the twin towers that make up the Jafza One-Jafza Convention Centre.
