下载后可任意编辑Terminal closer to take-offLast Updated: Mar 1, Abu Dhabi International Airport has moved closer to starting construction on a long-delayed, multibillion-dollar terminal building.Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) has released tender documents for a "midfield terminal", designed to become the home of Etihad Airways and more than 50 other airlines serving the airport later this decade.The development is a major milestone for the airports company, which is tasked with rolling out the infrastructure needed to continue expanding the UAE capital's aviation industry. The project will also become one of the key construction contracts in the UAE following a slowdown of new building projects after the global downturn.The midfield terminal building (MTB) has been in the planning stages for the past five years and issued an earlier tender, in , only to later 下载后可任意编辑withdraw it. The building was then the subject of a thorough review enacted by the management of ADAC.The tender was structured as a public-private partnership, in which contractors would shoulder some of the costs and risk of the project in return for a share of the operating revenues over the terminal's lifespan.But following the due diligence study, ADAC officials said the new tender was structured as a traditional construction contract. "Abu Dhabi Airports Company is pleased to announce the release of the MTB tender," said Khalifa al Mazrouei, the chairman of ADAC.The main terminal building will be 700,000 square metres and have an initial capacity of between 27 million and 30 million passengers a year.The building will be one of the world's largest and will require an estimated 667,000 cubic metres of concrete.It was desig...
