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Sep 05, 2018 (newstodate): Together with local Icelandic partners, Norway's Nordic Office of Architecture and Denmark's COWI have won the framework contract for the development of Keflavik International Airport.
Since spring 2015, Nordic Office of Architecture and COWI have been working on a master plan for Keflavik International Airport to form the basis for the development to ensure that the airport can handle the recent extreme growth in passenger volumes effectively.
Together with the local architecture firms Arkthing and Teiknistofan Trod and the Icelandic engineers at EFLA, they have now won a five-year framework contract.
The first call-off was for the planning group leader role to expand the existing terminal by some 30,000 sq m.
The framework contract is in two parts, one for the terminal building and the other for various other airport-related buildings, and has provisions for extension up to eight years.
Keflavik Airport's terminal building was opened in 1987 and has since seen a fivefold increase in passenger numbers exceeding the planned maximum capacity.
The airport is projected to pass 10 million passengers per year by 2020, and a number of enlargements and improvements are planned for the coming years.
In 2017 alone, the airport handled a total of 8,755,352 passengers, up 28.3 percent y-o-y, as well as 56,101 tonnes of cargo.
Since spring 2015, Nordic Office of Architecture and COWI have been working on a master plan for Keflavik International Airport to form the basis for the development to ensure that the airport can handle the recent extreme growth in passenger volumes effectively.
Together with the local architecture firms Arkthing and Teiknistofan Trod and the Icelandic engineers at EFLA, they have now won a five-year framework contract.
The first call-off was for the planning group leader role to expand the existing terminal by some 30,000 sq m.
The framework contract is in two parts, one for the terminal building and the other for various other airport-related buildings, and has provisions for extension up to eight years.
Keflavik Airport's terminal building was opened in 1987 and has since seen a fivefold increase in passenger numbers exceeding the planned maximum capacity.
The airport is projected to pass 10 million passengers per year by 2020, and a number of enlargements and improvements are planned for the coming years.
In 2017 alone, the airport handled a total of 8,755,352 passengers, up 28.3 percent y-o-y, as well as 56,101 tonnes of cargo.