Win follows PMO experience at Peru's Chinchero New Airport

A rendering of the passenger terminal at Gadeokdo New Airport [Gadeokdo New Airport Construction Authority]
A rendering of the passenger terminal at Gadeokdo New Airport [Gadeokdo New Airport Construction Authority]

HanmiGlobal has won a construction management contract covering the design phase of the passenger terminal and ancillary buildings at Gadeokdo New Airport.

The company announced Wednesday that it had formed a consortium with ITM Architects and signed a contract with the Gadeokdo New Airport Construction Authority for design-phase construction management of the terminal and ancillary buildings.

Under the contract, HanmiGlobal will review the design suitability, constructability, and appropriateness of construction costs and schedules for the passenger terminal and ancillary buildings. The firm will also identify potential project risks at the design stage and work to improve the efficiency of design quality and cost management.

Gadeokdo New Airport is a project to build a runway, passenger terminal, cargo terminal and other airport facilities on a roughly 6.67 million-square-meter site on Gadeokdo in Busan's Gangseo-gu. The pre-construction management period runs through January 2030.

Because the passenger terminal will be built on a large maritime site requiring the integration of multiple construction disciplines — including architecture, civil engineering, mechanical, electrical and communications work — integrated project management from the design stage is essential. HanmiGlobal plans to carry out pre-construction work covering constructability and cost-efficiency reviews while managing project risks in advance.

HanmiGlobal has also built project management experience in overseas airport construction. In 2019, the company joined a PMO consortium for the Chinchero New Airport project in Peru, South Korea's first government-to-government airport infrastructure contract. It handled contract management, schedule management and cost management on that project.

The company said it plans to use this contract as a springboard to expand its domestic public infrastructure work and to pursue additional opportunities in overseas airport and large-scale infrastructure projects — including in the Middle East — drawing on its accumulated experience in airport construction management at home and abroad.

Meanwhile, HanmiGlobal is also serving as project manager for the HBM advanced packaging factory that SK hynix is building in West Lafayette, Indiana. The company is providing integrated management of design, schedule, cost, quality and safety for the project. SK hynix plans to invest more than $4 billion in the production facility.


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