Hawassa Airport Construction Tender Open as Designers Sign Off
3-D view of Bereket Tesfaye’s designs for the terminal of Hawassa airport which has facilities of VIP lounge, restaurant, roof terrace, kitchen, security check points and baggage make-up Over the next 30 days, the Ethiopian Airports Enterprise (EAE) will be looking for potential bidders to build the Hawassa Airport, with the design now complete. The bid document, which will be available from tomorrow, is based on an airfield design by the state owned consulting firm Transport Construction Design Enterprise (TCDE) and a terminal design by private consulting firm, Bereket Tesfaye Consulting Architects and Engineering, according to Wondeme Teklu, the enterprise’s communications head. The airport in the tourist city – 275kms south of Addis Abeba and the capital of the southern regional state – will be the 19th airport to Ethiopia. The TCDE’s design for the airfield was completed last week, while the Enterprise is already considering three designs for the terminal. The TCDE has