Eurovia wins contract for development work at Berlin-Brandenburg International airport

1 October 2007 - New contracts - Germany

Eurovia (VINCI group), consortium leader, has been announced as winner of the contract to build a runway and hangars for the new Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport.

The contract, worth €215 million, calls for building and developing one of the two take-off and landing runways, the taxiways and airplane parking area.

The works, which will take from September 2007 until April 2011, include 6.5 million cu. metres of earthwork, 1,400,000 sq. metres of concrete pavement, 240,000 sq. metres of asphalt pavement, a 1,100 km protection system for ground lighting cables, a 30 km rainwater collection network (with 400 wells and eight pumps) and the fuel supply network.

The new contract confirms Eurovia’s strong presence and long-term commitment in Germany in the field of transport infrastructure: roads, motorways, airports, asphalt and concrete pavement, and materials production. Eurovia generated revenue of €776 million in Germany in 2006.

Eurovia, a VINCI subsidiary, is a world leader in the road industry. With 38,500 employees and operations in 16 countries, the company generated revenue of €7.2 billion in 2006 of which €3 billion outside France.

 

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