HNTB to finance design and construction of new Balice airport in Krakow

HNTB of America and US government agency TDA are to partially finance the master plan for the $100 million construction of Poland's second largest civilian airport, Krakow-Balice International Airport. The master plan, also to be done by HNTB, should take five months to prepare. Meanwhile, the old Balice airport is getting a facelift and undergoing expansion which is expected to be completed by December. The current renovations should raise the number of passengers that Balice would service per year from 520,000 to 1.3 million. Upon completion of the entire structure in 2005, the airport would serve 4 million passengers per year. In related news, chief architect of HNTB Wojciech Lesnikowski, said his company had joined a consortium that is to bid for the design and construction of a new terminal at Warsaw's Okecie airport. (Puls Biznesu, page 12)