ACS is awarded the expansion of Perth Airport in Australia for 567 million
Perth Airport (Australia) has entrusted the joint venture assembled by CPB Contractors, a subsidiary of ACS, and BMD Group, a package of works valued at 1,000 million Australian dollars (around 567 million euros at the current exchange rate) to shape his third track. The group chaired by Florentino Pérez returns to the scene after completing the sale of 50% of the transport business of its Australian subsidiary UGL to the Japanese company Sojitz for nearly 500 million Australian dollars (283 million euros).
The company that operates under the shelter of Cimic, the leading subsidiary of ACS in Australia, thus repeats the tandem with the local construction company that has successfully positioned it in large projects in the region in recent years. A month ago, precisely, both firms joined forces with Gergiu to take over the improvement of the Gateway to Bruce road corridor, north of Brisbane (Australia), in exchange for 950 million Australian dollars (about 540 million euros).
The project that they now add to their portfolio under the joint venture Skyway contemplates the construction of a new runway 3,000 meters long and 45 meters wideaccompanied by a wide range of complementary works. Among the planned works is the preparation of the land, the relocation of existing services, the improvement of access and security, the installation of airport lighting and signage, as well as drainage and landscaping work. Together, these actions will allow the airport’s third runway to be enabled within an estimated period of three years.
The new runway is part of the largest investment program that has been launched on this infrastructure, with 5,000 million Australian dollars (about 2,840 million euros) intended to modernize and expand the airport. The investment, unlocked last year, includes the new parallel runway, new terminals, two multi-storey car parks with associated roadworks, a modernization of Terminal 2 and the airport’s first hotel.
This ambition has naturally attracted the interest from Spanish construction companies such as the aforementioned ACS or Ferrovialconsolidated among the references of Australian infrastructure. The second, as reported theEconomist Last April, it submitted an offer to the Australian funds that control the infrastructure operator after learning of the potential investment projected for the airport.
The million-dollar works program was born with the need to address the rapid growth that the airport is experiencing. Proof of this is its last fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to July 2025), in which it has shattered its passenger record with 17.5 million people transiting its terminals, 8.5% above the levels of the previous year. These data places it among the four largest airports in the country and they are similar to the records achieved by Spanish aerodromes such as Alicante-Elche (18.3 million in 2024) and Gran Canaria (15.2 million in 2024), the fifth and sixth largest, by passengers, in Spain.
In this scenario, the roadmap drawn up by the airport administrators aims to double its passenger traffic up to reach 30 million users a year within two decades. If its estimates are met, the airport estimates a generation of 75,400 jobs and a contribution of 17 billion Australian dollars (almost 9.7 billion euros) each year to the economy of Western Australia.
