Limak Construction, founded in 1976, has specialized in all types of infrastructure and superstructure projects, including airports, ports, expressways, dams, hydroelectric power plants, treatment plants, factories, industrial facilities, food facilities, pipelines, mixed-use complex structures, hotel constructions; and is included in the (ENR) Engineering News-Record top 250 international construction companies list today, together with the leading construction companies in the world. The company, merging technical abilities with the experience acquired over the years, and quality, speed, advanced technology, creativity and corporate responsibility understanding, has successfully completed many major projects, some in the EPC model, prior to the foreseen completion dates.
Limak Construction has realized important international airport projects in the aviation sector so far. Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport new terminal building and extensions, which have been designed over a total indoor area of 500 thousand square meters with an environment friendly understanding and received numerous awards including being elected as one of the safest buildings of the world, have been constructed with values way above international norms and within a record period of 18 months, including the design-construction process. Meanwhile, in 2013, it has completed the construction of the Pristine Adem Jashari International Airport of 5 million passengers’ capacity, which is the most technological, most modern, environment friendly airport of the Balkans today. In Egypt, the Cairo International Airport Terminal 2 Project, which is financed by the World Bank, has been completed in 2016 and operational maintenance works are continued within the scope of the facility management contract.
The contract for the Kuwait International Airport Terminal II Project, which has the highest contract price that has been awarded to a Turkish contracting company so far and is one of the most prestigious projects in the world and is of high significance for Kuwait, has been signed in 2016. Furthermore, Limak has completed the construction of the International Blaise-Diagne Airport construction project at the capitol of Senegal – Dakar, which it had undertaken with its partner in 2016, and has taken the airport into operation together with its partners including the Senegal government in June 2017. The Kuwait Communicable Diseases Hospital Project, which has been continued in 2017, is planned to be completed at the end of 2018, and the infrastructure works project in the West Abdullah Al Mubarak site have been completed in September 2017, 2 months prior to the normal completion date. It has been awarded the tender for the infrastructure works in South Abdullah Al Mubarak site in Kuwait, and the contract is expected to be executed in 2018.
From our projects abroad, the Platov International Airport construction in Russia has been completed and Ukraine Dnipro Subway project construction has been continued in 2017. The Gali-Zakho Tunnel that will make transportation between Iraq and Turkey safer and comfortable will be handed over in 2018. In Europe, the construction of the mixed-use superstructure project over an area of almost 300 thousand square meters, composed of mall, hotel and residence blocks at the city center of Skopje, capitol of Macedonia, and the Banja and Moglice hydroelectric power plants of approximately 250 MW power, for Statkraft in Albania have been continued; the Banja project has been completed and taken into operation. The construction of the hotel project in Northern Cyprus has been continued and it is planned to be taken into operation in 2018.
In addition, significant infrastructure projects abroad, including Kazakhstan and the Ivory Coast, financed by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and African Development Bank are followed up with care.
The company continues the construction of the Istanbul New Airport Project that poses as one of the biggest infrastructure investments of Turkey and the world, the tender for which it has been awarded and has signed the contract with its partners in 2014. Istanbul New Airport, the first phase of which is targeted to be completed and taken into operation on October 29, 2018, will be included among the largest airports of the world with a passenger capacity of 200 million when all phases are completed, and is being constructed in the international norms, with a modern and environmentalist understanding, together with an airport city.
Limak Construction has completed many HEPP projects in the energy sector. Among these; the construction of Alkumru Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant, which is one of the largest hydroelectric power plant projects in Turkey constructed by the private sector by its 280 MW installed power and an average annual generation capacity of almost 1 billion kWh, has been completed within a period less than 3 years. The construction is continued at Yusufeli Dam, the world’s third highest double curvature concrete arch dam, undertaken in Artvin with our partners. Domestically, our contracting and investment projects are continued in all four corners of Anatolia, including projects such as the construction of the Şırnak-Pervari and Kahramanmaraş-Göksun roads that have been started in 2012.
On the other hand, the contract for Lot 4 (Eskişehir-Greece section) of the TANAP-Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project, which is very important for our country and the region, has been awarded to our joint venture in 2014, and the construction of the Northern Marmara Highway has been continued in 2017. The ground breaking ceremony has been held on March 18, 2017 for the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge and Malkara-Çanakkale Motorway Project, which is also one of the very important projects for our country and has been awarded to a joint venture where the company is included. 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, which will be the longest suspension bridge of the world with a span of 2023 meters between the abutments, is planned to be completed and opened in 2023, the 100th anniversary of our Republic.
The Company will continue to work for a sustainable future also in 2018. It will continue to undertake large-scale energy, infrastructure and superstructure projects, with the highest level of performance in safety, quality and environment standards.
Limak Construction, as always, will maintain the role being the follower of the mission dictated by the investment policies of all group companies and be the flagship of the rising brand values.