CONSTRUCTION OF AIRPORT GOES WITH 23 PERCENT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The construction of the new airport has been planned to achieve 26.8 percent by the end of this year, now it has exceeded by 1.7 percent, the Minister of Road and Transportation A.Gansukh was told October 8. Together with authority of the General Authority for Civil Aviation he visited the airport construction site in Khushig valley in Tov aimag. In frames of the project, over 30 facilities are to be erected. This year, a construction is being run of the main facilities such as a terminal capable of receiving three million passengers per year, a runway to receive 22 thousand airliners to depart and arrive, an air traffic control tower, Fire fighting and Rescue departments buildings, electric fundamental and assistant stations, independent water supply facilities, heating facility, and 1,490 meters long engineering circuit tunnel. The executor organizations have completed earthworks in over five million cube meters of space for the dam and the building grounds, which equal to 90 percent of the total work. Only the runway cementation on 162 thousand square meters have been completed, and are underway a 70-percent of casting the concrete, covering of 65.9 thousand cube meters of the runway, and 39.3-percent of steel reinforcing of the main terminal building.