MUSCAT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT PROJECT INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS PACKAGE (MC-1) - (OMAN)
DEVELOPMENT OF MUSCAT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MAIN CONTRACT 1 - INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS PACKAGE IN OMAN
FACTS & FIGURES
New Runway Construction: 580.000 m²
Taxiway Construction: 1.275.000 m²
Apron Construction: 366.000 m²
Total Excavation Volume: 14.462.000 m³
Total Backfill Volume: 17.464.000 m³
Total Concrete Works: 681.000 m³
Total Asphalt Works: 1.202.000 tons
Piping Works: 1.346.000 m
7 Bridges, Roundabouts and Road Connections to Airport
Stone Columns (Ø 850) : 840.000 m
Drainage structures construction with outflow capacity of 500 m³/second
Total Power Set-Up: 278 MVA
Chiller Plants with total capacity of 120 MW
Fuel Farm Capacity: 30.000 m³
The Infrastructure Works for Muscat International Airport Development Project (MC1) has been awarded to TAV – CCC Joint venture in August 2009. The duration of the project is 34 months, a challenge for a project this magnitude, which TAV Construction is familiar with.
One of the great challenges in building the new airport in Muscat is to provide adequate drainage of the area: it seldom rains in Oman, but when it does, it pours. Cars and roads get swept away as water cascades down the mountains behind Muscat in great quantities and on into the Gulf of Oman.
One of the areas the rainwater passes to get to the sea is the stretch of land on which the new runway will be as it is a flat, low-lying area, separated from the ocean only by a coastal road, where water can stagnate in the shallowest spots after powerful but short-lived downpours.
In order to prevent any effect of a possible flooding, the basement level of the terminal building has cancelled and all levels of the infrastructure works on the airfield, runways, apron and taxiway areas have been altered to suit. A several hundreds of meters wide “wadi channel” has been included within the scope of development works as well as three giant outlets with culvert connections. These three culverts will have a combined capacity of drainage of 500 m³ water per second.