BAA appoints Carillion

Source: Construction Digital

Date :13/09/2007 09:02:13

Engineering company Carillion has been appointed by BAA to provide pre-construction services to BAA's £9.5 billion airport investment programme.

The news follows the announcement by Network Rail that it had dropped Carillion from its list of rail renewals contractors, losing the firm around £70 million in turnover.

Carillion executive director Don Kenny said it had signed a pre-construction deal with BAA for a satellite building at Heathrow Airport's T5 complex known as T5C.

The firm has begun value engineering work on the T5C scheme which is being built to increase gate capacity at the main terminal.

The deal has a construction value of £300 million with a further £100 million planned for the refit.

Kenny added: "T5C had always been planned by BAA and it allows more departure gates.

“More gates means more passenger throughput and more revenue.”

Another satellite building, T5B, has already been built under the original T5 deal and is 442 m long and 50 m wide. T5B has 17 departure gates, shops and restaurants. T5C, which BAA said will be similar to T5B, is planned to open in 2010.

As well as Carillion nine other firms are expected to assist in the development including Amec, now known as Morgan Ashurst, Balfour Beatty, Costain, Ferrovial, Laing O'Rourke, Mace, Skanska and Taylor Woodrow.

The Complex Projects work planned for the next decade will also include pier developments and major terminal schemes.

Two smaller frameworks - Commodities and Professional Services - are also being let.

Before formally appointing its framework contractors, BAA will await the outcome of a regulatory review by the Civil Aviation Authority, which began in the summer and is due to finish later this year.

September 13 2007