Location Muscat & Salalah, Oman
Client Public Authority for Civil Aviation of the Sultanate of Oman
Services Estimating & Cost Management, Project Management
Project Value More Than $5 Billion
Hill provided engineering consultancy services for a program to expand and modernize Muscat International Airport and Salalah International Airport in Oman.
The expansion of Muscat International Airport, the largest airport in the country, included the delivery of a new 580,000 SM passenger terminal building capable of accommodating 12 million passengers annually, a 97-meter air traffic control tower, 96 check-in counters, a baggage processing facility that can handle 5,500 bags per hour, 29 passenger boarding bridges, 30 aircraft remote stands, and 2 parallel runways. The scope also included the delivery of multiple ancillary buildings with a total area of more than 30,000 SM. This included a 90-room airside hotel.
The program also comprised the upgrade of Salalah Airport, the second largest airport in the country, from primarily a domestic airport to one more suitable for international travel. The scope included building a new runway long enough to handle the A380 Airbus, a new terminal with 65,000 SM of floor area, a 57-meter air traffic control tower, 24 check-in counters, 8 passenger boarding bridges, 8 aircraft remote stands, and 4,000 LM of runway equipped with the latest navigational instruments and automatic landing systems. The modernized Salalah International Airport has a capacity of approximately one million passengers per year.
The program was divided into multiple contract packages using both design-bid-build and design-build delivery methods.
Hill was brought on to the project to replace the former engineering consultant. Our team provided construction supervision, stakeholder and interface management, design review, risk management, permitting support, contract administration, cost management and control, claims management, scheduling, quality management and control, health and safety management, tracking and reporting services, document control, and training and knowledge transfer. To perform many of these functions, the Hill team deployed the project management software Aconex.
Highlights of the Hill team’s work included integration and coordination of contract requirements, establishing and implementing project-specific procedures to provide a structured and organized project environment, refining the existing project documentation process to maintain a system that could be easily understood and implemented by all project parties, developing an effective project quality plan and monitoring its implementation to safeguard the client’s objectives and requirements, and developing an health, safety, and environment plan and monitoring its implementation to promote safety on site. Notably, Hill mobilized a staff of 250 within our first 3 months on the program.
MEED recognized the expansion of Muscat International Airport as its 2019 Megaproject of the Year.
