SGEC-Congo (Vinci group), who signed with the “Délégation générale des grands travaux” of the Congo (sponsor) a “Design and build” contract, sub-contracted to Egis Avia the design part, aiming at refurbishing the movement areas of the Brazzaville Maya-Maya airport and building a new runway.

While maintaining the former runway under operations, the project includes the construction of a 3300 x 45 meters new runway in the current airport limits and the associated taxiway and taxi lane. In order to increase the airport’s availability and performances, this Egis Avia project includes the dimensioning of CAT I ILS platforms (glide and localiser) for this new runway.

Additionally, a new military parking area and the associated taxiway will also be constructed. Such area is designed to accommodate ten parking stands for Mi24, Mi8, Mi 17 helicopters as well as two modular stands for B747-400 or an Il76 cargo aircraft.

To cope with this new runway capacity, the project designs the extension of the passenger parking area to a surface of 196 000 square meters (commercial apron) as well as the marking of the new aeronautical areas. For a better optimisation of operations, Egis Avia handles this part in close coordination with the new terminal building project, designed by a Chinese company.

Following the new design by Egis Avia, this area will obtain a total capacity of twenty one parking stands, accommodating ICAO code B to code F planes (for A380).