SSK airport construction cost skyrockets to P550m

With six months to go before year-end, the airport still bears the look of a construction site just beginning to take off. The project managers, against all the odds, however tell The Monitor that come year end, the costly project will have been completed and handed over to government. That's what they said when they began work at the site in 2008, following a fast-tracked tender system that saw a Chinese company, Sino Hydro, given 23 months to complete the project; from June 10, 2008 to May 11, 2010, to be exact.

The first phase, originally scheduled for completion by November 2009 was not delivered until May 2010 - a six-month delay.Up to now however the Department of Buildings Services (DBES) has resisted the hand-over of the Phase One project because there have been several aspects gone wrong that the contractor must make right before the project can be handed over.