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FCC Group
The Mexico City airport group, belonging to
the Secretary of Communications and Trans-
port of the Mexican Government, has awar-
ded the contract for construction to the con-
sortium led by Grupo Carso, which includes
FCC. The consortium will build the terminal
building of the new international airport for
Mexico City (NAICM) in the Federal District
of Lake Texcoco after submitting the best
economic and technical bid. The contract is
worth 84.8 billion Mexican pesos (4.2 billion
dollars / 3.925 billion euros) and will have a 44
month completion deadline.
The new airport will be the world’s second
most important under construction, and the
main contract to build the new airfield will be
one of the largest infrastructure works cu-
rrently underway in Latin America.
The consortium working on this iconic pro-
ject, led by Carso, is made up of Spanish
companies FCC and Acciona and local Mexi-
can construction companies ICA, GIA, Pro-
demex, Hermes Infrastructure group.
The contract award is for the construction
of a building with an area of 743,000 squa-
re metres over four floors on a plot of land
measuring 4, 430 hectares. Arrivals, bagga-
ge reclaim and all services relating to ground
handling and the baggage handling system
will be located on the first floor. This level will
also include access to the car park, the flight
information area, the short stay car park and
access to the Metro from the Ground Trans-
portation Centre. The second floor will be
used for international arrivals, immigration
and the flight transfer area. Departures will
be located on the third floor which will have
a large central shopping area, departure pas-
sageways and an area reserved for Pre-clea-
rance. Lastly, the fourth floor will include a car
park, the check-in area and security control.
The surface area of the roof will be double
the size of that in Terminal 4 of Adolfo Suá-
rez Madrid–Barajas Airport. It will be made of
aluminium sheets and ceramic glass that will
channel rainwater, wind and sunlight through
pipes and photosensitive systems in order to
be used inside.
The construction of NAICM will create around
160,000 jobs, and around 450,000 when in
operation.
The project was awarded to the Carso Group
consortium, in which the Citizen Services Group
participates, for 3.9 billion euros.
FCC to build the new terminal at
Mexico City Airport
