Taiwan Taoyuan International Tender

Location Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Scope Taoyuan International Airport Corp TIAC plans to spend nearly NT200 billion US6.47 million over 14 years upgrading infrastructure at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. A project to revamp the airports facilities which was initiated last year and is to run until 2032. This would cover the construction of Terminal 3 and the Third Runway. The evaluation would help tackle problems in three major areas the airports power supply system its sewage system and the runways and taxiways. To address the power issues the company is to build two substations by 2022 to offer electricity on redundant circuits. The evaluation also identified several major problems related to the maintenance of the runways and taxiways. The airports runways and taxiways must handle the landings and takeoffs of more than 700 flights per day on average a heavy burden that makes it difficult to inspect and maintain them. In addition to increasing the frequency of traditional inspections and preventive maintenance for runways he said that the company would use a mobile image-recognition system for inspections and is complete work to resurface the runways this year and in 2022.The company has imported machinery to quickly drain pipes adding that it would conduct a quarterly draining of drainpipes in the airports 242 lavatories as well as drain 20 heavily used toilets each month.Taoyuan International Airport which opened in 1979 is Taiwans No. 1 airport about 50 km northwest of Taipei. Since the opening of Terminal 2 the airport has been pushing for the construction of Terminal 3 to solve a congestion problem caused by an increase in the number of passengers. Samsung CT won the project by forming a consortium with Taiwans general construction company RSEA Engineering. The total budget is US1.56 billion of which Samsung CT will take 1.24 trillion won. Samsung CT will carry out the construction of the passenger terminal and a boarding building that can handle 45 million people annually with a total floor area of 550000 square meters. The construction period is 60 months. Samsung CT noted that this project requires high-level construction technology such as large roof steel trusses and an unstructured ceiling.Mar 2021Samsung CT has won a 1.2 trillion won order to build Terminal 3 of Taiwans Taoyuan International Airport.