VINCI Construction Grands Projets will undertake the Design & Build project to extend the Santiago Airport in Chile

Working together as the Nuevo Pudahuel consortium, Aéroports de Paris (45 % of the consortium through), VINCI Airports (40 %) and Astaldi (15 %) have been selected by the Chilean government as having presented the best offer for the concession of Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago de Chile, South America’s 6th largest airport which saw 16.1 million passengers in 2014, almost half of whom were international passengers.

The project consists on the management and development of the airport. The financial offer was fixed at 77.56 % expressing the proportion of revenue from the concession to be turned over to the government. In application of the new concession contract, the Nuevo Pudahuel consortium will be granted from 1 October 2015 (at the end of the current concession contract) with the following main missions:

• the renovation of existing installations with the redesign and extension of the current terminal
• the funding, design and construction of a new 175,000 sqm terminal, which will increase the airport's capacity to 30 million passengers, with potential for expansion beyond 45 million
• the operation and commercial development for the duration of the concession (20 years) of the main infrastructures: existing terminal and new terminals, car parks and future property developments