“It is the most important day for our community in the last 20 years. I hope the airport will be the main reason for the foreign companies to invest in Iași, to create more employment opportunities and well-being, and for the citizens of Iasi living abroad a better reason to return home”

The contract includes the design and execution works of the take off-landing runway, the taxiway, the extension of the platform and the apron, light signals installation, rain drainage system.

 The contract for the design and execution of development and modernisation works at Iași International Airport was signed on the 4^th of June 2013. Mr. Marius BODEA, General Manager of Iași Airport, and Mr. Mathias KIRR, Executive Manager of Max Boegl România, leader of the association winning the tender, signed the documents within a festivity.

Mr. Cristian ADOMNIȚEI, President of Iași County Council, the institution that will finance the works, declared that signing this contract is the best piece of news in the last two decades for the citizens of Iași. „Starting from this year, due to the works at the airport, I hope that our city will renew its hope and trust that in Iasi well-being and sustainable development will be achieved. It is the most important day in the last 20 years for our community. I hope the airport will be the main reason for the foreign companies to invest in Iași, to create more employment opportunities and well-being, and for the citizens of Iasi living abroad a better reason to return home. We are waiting for news from the Management Authority of POS T to find out if we can start works at module II of the airport. Module II means new parking and taxiways for the airplanes landing on the new runway. It is a 40 million Euro worth project, which we could finance with European funds. We will know the decision in a couple of weeks”, declared Mr. Cristian ADOMNIȚEI.

Dl. Mathias KIRR mentioned that for this project they would work also during the nights, in three shifts. „We hope to receive the order to start the works as soon as possible. We will mobilise ourselves in order to start on time. Starting with now, for us, as builders, time is running and we are interested in finalising the project on time. We will try to avoid contract penalties. We have prepared our personnel and machines necessary for the works. In the first stage, we will start the design, and as soon as the project is approved by the competent bodies, we will start the construction works. We would like to start the works even earlier than September. Some works can be executed even before the design or at the same time with it, such as organising the construction site. We will work in three shifts. We are taking into consideration to work most nights”, stated Mr. Mathias KIRR.

At the same time, the General Manager of Iasi Airport completed that Moldova region will have the most modern runway in Romania, and the result will be new routes to and from Iasi. „Today, we in fact sign for the beginning of the real development of Iasi International Airport. It is an important moment for the entire community. We are privileged to sign today a contract for the design and execution of the first flexible runway in Romania, with last generation equipment, and this will count for the market of the great players, I mean the airlines. I hope the execution deadline will be outdone. We hope in an important mobilisation of Max Boegl company to outdo this deadline and to regain the time we lost with the cumbersome procedures of public tenders”, declared Mr. Marius BODEA. The event was attended by Ms. Maria GRAPINI, Delegate Minister for SMEs and Tourism, Mr. Gheorghe NICHITA, Mayor of Iași, Mr. Marius DANGĂ, Deputy Mayor of Iași, Mr. Romeo OLTEANU, Prefect of Iași County, Mr. Sergiu PALIHOVICI, Head of the Prefectural Office Chișinău, important business people, county and local councillors, directors of decentralised institutions etc.

The association Max Boegl România, SC Vega ’93 SRL and SC UTI Grup SA won the tender for the construction design and execution of works for the new 2,400m runway at R.A. Aeroportul Iași, being the tenderer with the highest score, 95 points out of a maximum 100. The offered value was 139.128.551,47 Lei, without VAT. The deadline is 25 months from the signing date.

The contract includes design and execution of works for the airport surfaces related to a new 2,400 metres runway. More precisely, the contract refers to the execution of the take off-landing runway, the taxiway, the extension of the platform and the apron, light signals installation, rain drainage system, as well as the design services for all these.