WSP wins Muscat and Salalah airports' contract
WSP are providing detailed design on maintenance and cargo facilities at Muscat airport (above) and a cargo facility at Salalah airport in Oman. Together the developments consist of circa 150,000m2 of facilities and the maintenance hangar at Muscat is sized to accommodate an airbus A380 and two Code C aircrafts simultaneously. WSP is providing civil, structural, building services and specialist support services including fire, acoustics & security.
Director Jim Ratliff said: “We are extremely pleased to have won these contracts, delivered by our teams in the UK and Middle East. We have been developing our skills addressing the Middle East market for some time now and have established a good market presence for infrastructure and commercial development. We will be looking to build on this success through our global counterparts.”
WSP is also currently working on the new Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Doha. WSP has 2,700 employees across the UK and 600 in the Middle East. WSP is active across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
WSP is a professional services firm in the UK providing consultancy services to all aspects of the built and natural environment working with governments, planners, developers and architects. The firm has been involved in many high profile UK projects including the Shard, Crossrail, New South Glasgow Hospital, the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham and the re-development of London Bridge station. With approximately 17,500 employees in 30 countries, on five continents, and around 2700 people in the UK mainly engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors as well as various environmental experts and design professionals, WSP is ranked in the world’s top 10 professional consultancies.
