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Iqaluit Airport - Sintra
Sintra was awarded the civil works portion of the Iqaluit airport PPP project.
Iqaluit Airport is located 2 100 km north of Montreal on the 64 th parallel. Iqaluit is the capital of Nunavut. Nunavut has 32,000 people and covers a territory of 2.1 million km2.
The project involves 4 years of construction and 34 years of operation.
The project represents a $ 107 million contract for Sintra.
The civil works carried out are the following:
- Repair and resurfacing of the existing runway and the 2 existing taxiways
- The creation of 3 new taxiways
- The widening of the apron
- the canalization of a river
- the construction of roadways near the airport