Siemens wins order from BIAL

Bangalore, July 27: The Industrial Solutions and Services (I and S) Group of Siemens AG, Germany and Siemens Ltd. India has received a supplementary order valued at 16 million Euros from the Bangalore International Airport Ltd. (BIAL) for installation of technical systems to support the revised plans of expanding capacities in the first stage at the international airport, fast coming up at Devanahalli, 30 km from here.

The new order was in addition to the contract bagged by Siemens in 2005 to equip the new airport with the complete electrical, airfield lighting, IT and communications systems, passenger boarding bridges, escalators and elevators, a baggage handling system as well as the power supply equipment and a building security and automation system.

The Siemens I and S has received an order to install additional technical solutions to manage the enlarged capacities at the airport. This supplementary order thus means that the airport would be able to serve 11 million passengers a year in the first stage of the project-more than double the number originally planned. Even with this revision to enlarge capacities, the completion of the airport remained scheduled for April 2008.

The first stage of the Bangalore airport project was originally designed to handle approximately 4.5 million passengers. However, a recent study commissioned by BIAL forecast a turnover of around 6.7 million passengers in 2008, the year the airport was scheduled to open.

Based on these studies, BIAL in April 2006 decided to make some appropriate modifications in the first stage of the project. And with a view to accommodate larger number of passengers, Siemens was expanding the baggage handling system. The terminal building was also being enlarged. Expansion of the power supply, building, safety and communications systems has thus likewise become necessary and now was also included in the scope of supply.

In addition, the layout of the runway, the taxiways and the parking positions was being rearranged so as to allow more flight movements. In this context, Siemens was supplying the airfield and apron lighting equipment.

UNI