Press release
23 December 2024VINCI Construction Grands Projets (65 %), in a consortium with Libyan Development Company or Lidco (35 %), signed a €55 million contract on 13 November 2008 to build the control tower for the new Tripoli airport.
The contract covers civil engineering and all the technical and architectural building trades (€42 million), as well as airport infrastructure (€13 million). The work is scheduled to take 18 months.
The principal earthworks (20,000 cubic metres), bored piles (24 piles with a diameter of 1.20 metres and depth of 30 metres) and concrete foundations of the control tower have already been completed; the shaft and foundations for the plant room are currently under construction. The new tower will enable the airport’s capacity to increase from 2 million to 20 million passengers a year.
VINCI Construction Grands Projets recently completed the Al Gardabiya Assdada pumping stations as part of the Great Man Made River Project in Libya. This vast project, which was launched at the beginning of the 1980s for a period of 25 years, aims to supply water to the coastal regions with a view to developing agriculture and meeting domestic and industrial needs.
