Euro 2012 news

Kharkiv have done about 22% of the construction of the new runway length of 2.5 km. As noted in an exclusive comment Clearing House "Ukraine-2012" Head of the Directorate for the construction of the airport Alexander Sivalnev, today continued excavation work. "First, we laid the soil-cement layer of stamps 60, partially filled the bottom layer of concrete. This is the basis for future bands. Ahead of the work with the top layer of the soil ", - said the manager.

Platform is ready more than 80%. "It laid the three main layers, removed and compacted soil, in addition, it is stabilized with lime to get rid of excess moisture. The next phase - laying a layer of 15 cm of soil with cement grade 40, a layer of 30 cm of concrete stamps 75100. The top layer - heavy concrete grade 400. This technology will take concrete layer at the Kharkiv International Airport without problems all the main civil aircraft ", - stressed Alexander Sivalnev.

New band of 2.5 km in length, built from scratch and will be commissioned in late autumn 2011-th. Using the old runway at the time of construction of the new airport will not close. It is profitable for the city and for country, and the new terminal, which in the coming months will begin to explore new international trend.

As the director of the airport construction said, after the launch of a new runway, the old will be closed, and in the future it will be used as a substitute during the big air-flow through Kharkiv.

"In particular, its use required, and during Euro 2012, so that the airport could take 25 000 people (something about 100-120 aircraft) within a few hours a day Euro-matches", - said Alexander Sivalnev.

Earlier in the training program of Kharkiv for Euro-2012 scheduled to reinforce the old lane and extend it up to 2,5 km. However, it was subsequently decided to build a new runway.

In contrast to the new terminal, the preparation of TMA - construction of the band, signaling complex, the rescue station, air traffic control tower and the renovation of the platforms - will be at the expense of the state budget. These needs will be allocated 1 billion 86 million UAH. Construction costs in the estimates of the band is scheduled within the 346 million UAH.

This year, the state must transfer the Kharkiv Airport 520 million UAH of them 100 million UAH the city has already received.