Bids for the tender to reconstruct the terminal can be made until January 23 Courtesy of Estudio Lamela

Polish Airports State Enterprise (PPL), the manager of the Warsaw Chopin international airport in the Polish capital, is planning to reconstruct the old part of the facility’s main passenger terminal after this year’s UEFA Euro 2012 soccer championship.

The PPL has just announced a tender for the general contractor of the investment, whose value is estimated at zł.300 million. Bids can be made until January 23, with construction expected to start in autumn this year and finish by the end of 2013.

The section of the terminal building which is to be modernized was originally opened in the early 1990s. PPL has now come to the conclusion that its current technical condition requires that it be thoroughly renovated.

The renovation project, whose design was prepared by the Spanish Estudio Lamela architectural firm, envisions the architectural, technical and functional integration of the old part of the terminal with the new one, which became fully operational in March 2008.

At the same time, the investment will involve the development of a tunnel which will connect the airport terminal with a nearby new underground railway station, construction on which is just finishing.

In autumn last year, construction was launched on a new five-star hotel at Warsaw Chopin Airport. Future investments in the vicinity of the airport will include the development of Chopin Airport City, a mixed-use commercial complex totaling more than 150,000 sqm of space.