California Firm to Construct Peg's New Airport Terminal

December 3, 2003
Winnipeg Sun, Canada

California Firm to Cosntruct Peg's New Airport Terminal

A California company has won a six-year, $6- million tender to oversee
construction of a new terminal and parking garage at Winnipeg International
Airport. Parsons of Pasadena will manage the development program through
design, contracting and construction phases, confirmed Winnipeg Airports
Authority spokeswoman Christine Alongi. 

"The project is still being defined. We're still in the planning stages,"
she said yesterday. 

The airport board decided in May it was cheaper to build a modern terminal
by 2008 than repair the 40-year-old one. 

A new facility, estimated to cost about $250 million in current dollars,
would be 20% larger and sit northeast of the present terminal, alongside a
new parkade. The existing terminal would remain open during construction and
demolished afterward. 

Parsons, a veteran of large airport capital development projects, has
overseen new terminal construction in China, Korea, Greece, Egypt, Latin
America, the Caribbean and the United States. 

Alongi said capital costs would be funded through the $10 airport
improvement fee collected from passengers and a possible bond or investment
offering. The parking garage would go up first in 2005. 

NO PLANS FOR WHOLE DEVELOPMENT 

Alongi emphasized no plans had yet been drawn up for the whole redevelopment
project, which includes utility, infrastructure and road improvements. 

"This will derive out costs and size and the schedule," she said of Parsons'
job. 

Despite problems affecting the travel industry, the airport has seen growth
in passenger, airline and revenue numbers. All revenue is plowed back into
the not-for-profit organization for ongoing and future capital projects. 


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