Salini Impregilo Group, a leading global player in the construction of major complex infrastructures, said its US subsidiary Lane Construction Corporation has won a $75-million contract for the Al Maktoum International Airport expansion project in Dubai, UAE.

Lane Construction Corporation will be working alongside the National Contracting Transportation Corporation of Sharjah, UAE, on this project.

As per the deal, Lane will be responsible for 60 per cent of the $125 million project which entails new terminal facilities, concourses, runways, roads and tunnels.

In preparation for the expansion, Lane will work on temporary fences and gates, utilities and site offices, as well as site security, said a statement from Salini Impregilo Group.

The work will start next month and is due to be finished in 31 months. Once completed, the expanded airport is expected to accommodate more than 220 million passengers a year, making it the world’s biggest in terms of size and passenger capacity by 2050.

Besides the UAE, the Salini Impregilo unit has also won contracts in Pennsylvania and Florida (US) taking the combined value of its contracts to $370 million.

In Pennsylvania, Lane will be rebuilding and widening parts of Interstate 70. Construction is to start in the spring of 2017 and is scheduled to end in 2020.

In Orange County, Florida, Lane is the apparent low bidder for a project to widen a seven-mile segment of the Florida Turnpike after submitting an offer of $177 million, said the company in a statement.

Work is expected to begin in early 2017 and be completed in 2020.

Salini Impregilo said these contracts highlight the group's international reach and leadership in the infrastructure sector.-TradeArabia News Service