L&T Construction to build GVK’s Navi Mumbai International Airport

Navi Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd is a step-down subsidiary of GVK, which runs the Mumbai International Airport.

The project covers cut and fill works, terminal works including departure and arrival forecourts, airfield development works (a 3,700 m long south runway, apron systems, taxiway systems, airfield ground lighting and other facilities), landside facilities (roads, multilevel car parking), utilities and support facilities, L&T stated in a release.

The Passenger Terminal Building that has been designed with complex forms by the famous and much-awarded Zaha Hadid Architects is being developed to initially handle a capacity of 10 million passengers per annum. The project will subsequently be enhanced to handle 20 MPA.

“With the commissioning of the iconic Terminal 2 at Mumbai airport and designing the under construction Garden Terminal 2 at Bengaluru airport, GVK had set new benchmarks in the Indian airports sector. Now for the Navi Mumbai International Airport, we have to raise the bar over and above what we have achieved at Mumbai and Bengaluru airports. For this challenge, we are happy to partner with L&T yet again, as their team is very much in sync with our philosophy of delivering world class quality and creating landmarks for others to follow. Am confident that with the high standards of excellence that L&T brings to the table, we will deliver yet another world class airport that will be the pride of India,” the release quoted GVK Reddy, founder and chairman of GVK, as saying. 

“With its burgeoning demand, Mumbai city was in dire need of a second airport and we are happy that we have bagged the mandate to build the Navi Mumbai airport. GVK has entrusted L&T to develop some of their major infrastructures and L&T reciprocates their commitment to build a world class airport and to transform GVK’s vision into reality. L&T stands committed to a project of global standards to time and quality. Having built almost all the major international airports in the country, including Terminal 2 of the Mumbai International Airport, this order once again affirms our credentials as the foremost builders of airport infrastructure in the country,” S N Subrahmanyan, chief executive officer and managing director of L&T, stated.

L&T Construction is currently executing the construction works of major airports at Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi.

Land acquisition for the entire 1,160 hectares of the core airport area has been completed by the Maharashtra government for handing over to NMIAL (Navi Mumbai International Airport Limited).

The Navi Mumbai airport, a much-delayed project, was first proposed in 1997 as a second airport to support the busy Mumbai airport.

Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has been aggressively pushing for Navi Mumbai airport to become operational by mid-2020.