DESPITE the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), infrastructure conglomerate Megawide Construction Corp. is confident construction of Clark International Airport’s new passenger terminal building (PTB) will be completed ahead of schedule of July this year.
Edgar Saavedra, Megawide chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement said the project will be turned over to the Bases Conversion and Development Authority before the July 31, 2020 completion date should the lockdown end as scheduled on April 14.
Construction of the new Clark airport PTB is being undertaken by Megawide GMR Construction Joint Venture Inc. which won the contract in December 2017. Megawide’s partner is India-based GMR Infrastructure Ltd.
“The ECQ has minimal impact on our construction timelines for Clark International Airport primarily because engineering and construction are Megawide’s core strengths and the fact that we leveraged on what we learned from the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) expansion,” Saavedra said.
Construction of the new terminal, access roads, bus station, and car parks is 96 percent complete.
“Despite any challenges we are facing, we were actually ahead of schedule before the ECQ was implemented in Luzon,” said Saavedra.
The Clark International Airport’s new terminal is designed to increase the capacity of the airport from 4 million passengers per annum (mppa) to 12 mppa.
