Eurovia, 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. www.eurovia.com
