February 10, 2005

In December last year, as a result of a competifive tender for Finishes and MEP Works in Terminal 3, Concourse 2, and Car Park construction work in the large-scale expansion project at Dubai International Airport, Takenaka Corporation (Head Office: Osaka; President: Toichi Takenaka) has won the business in a joint venture with two other companies, Al-Habtoor Engineering Enterprise Co. (L.L.C.) (Head Office: Dubai Municipality, United Arab Emirates; President: Riad T Sadik) and Murray & Roberts Contractors (Middle East) L.L.C. (Head Office: Dubai Municipality, United Arab Emirates; General Manage: Nigel Harvey), the Dubai subsidiary of the South African Murray & Roberts Group. (Takenaka is a member of the joint venture.)

The total project budget for the expansion plans is around 400 billion yen, the amount of the contract received by the joint venture is around 102 billion yen, the contract work period is from December 19, 2004 to April 18, 2007, and work on the project is planned to begin from the second half of February this year.

Background and outline of the project

As the entrance to Dubai, the city which continues to show remarkable development, and which is the economic and trade center of the United Arab Emirates, as well as a resort, Dubai International Airport is an important international hub airport. The 22 million passengers recorded in the last year keeps on growing steadily, and because the handling capacity of the airport was reaching its limit, plans called for the expansion of the existing airport facilities in order to be able to handle 60 million passengers, as well as a terminal building and concourse for the local airline, Emirates Airline.

The design was undertaken by a joint team consisting of the French company Aeroport de Paris International, which undertook the design for the Abu Dhabi International Airport that was constructed by Takenaka in 1980, and Dar Al-Handasah Consultants, the large UK engineering company that has a lot of experience in the Middle East.

With a rare and novel design seeking to rationalize the airport facility functions, the new expansion plans call for the Terminal building and Car Park structure to be constructed underground, and the Concourse to be built on top. The total floor area of the Terminal, Concourse and Car Park is a huge scale of around 1.5 million square meters, making this airport expansion work project the most massive of its kind in the world.

The work for which the joint venture has received an order in this new Terminal 3, Concourse 2 and Car Park building project is as follows.
1. Finishing work (including 250 hotel rooms in the concourse) and ordinary mechanical and electrical work
2. Special airport system equipment work
3. Total coordination business for the work under direct management by the other contractors including the framework, the exterior finishing, the baggage conveyor system, the automated passenger transportation system, and the sky train work (process management, safety management, arrangements for the temporary facilities and main work)

Outline of the project