A five-company team has been selected to manage the forthcoming $5.4-billion expansion programme for Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport.

Named International Aviation Consultants, the programme management team includes Parsons, O'Brien-Kreitzberg, H J Russell & Co; Turner Associates and Rosser International.

The Hartsfield expansion programme will begin in mid-2000 and will be the largest public construction programme in the history of Georgia state.

The construction needed for the overall expansion programme will take 10 years.

Source: Flight Daily News