TAGBILARAN CITY, March 3 (PIA)—Call it another boast, the kind people have been hearing about the plan to build an airport in Panglao, it should be there by the end of 2017.
The New Bohol Airport Construction and Sustainable Environment Protection Project, quite a long name for simply Bohol Airport has Chiyoda-Mitsubishi Joint Venture (CMJV) only 30 months to complete the project, according to the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).
And for airport that took at least five administrations to plan, it is no less than President Benigno S Aquino who came to lay the time capsule containing the project development plans at the site where the future P4.7 billion airport terminal building would stand.
For a project that started in June 22, 2015, the target 30 months needed to complete the airport and its peripheries, is in December 2017.
Since June 2015, civil works, procurement of goods and related systems have been done, according to the DOTC.
Funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Bohol airport will have 2 kilometer runway long .45 meters wide and covers a total land area of 82,000 square meters.
The airport will have two stub taxiways of 32,000 square meters, a 56,000 square meter apron, a 193 lot car park or 8,720 square meters and would have 3 kilometer access roads with two lanes for each direction, data from japan Airports Consultants showed.
The airport would have a single storey Passenger Terminal Building of 8,300 square meters, a 9 storey 33 meter high Control Tower Building, a two storey 1,000 square meter Administration Building, a Fiore station and Maintenance Building, a power house Building with 2,000 KVA supply and a water tank and pump house that can accommodate 450 tons of storage.
As to its utility, Panglao Airport, when completed would have a 2,000KVA power supply system with two emergency generators, a water supply than can course 450 metric tons of waste to flow and another 450 tons of sewerage treatment system.
For travelers from Manila coming in, Panglao owns its Glide Scope and localizer, Doppler VHF Omni directional ranger radar with Distance Measuring Equipment (DVOR DME) with its own Airport Terminal Systems, that even flying ion at night can be no hassle.
Moreover, the airport will have Meteorological Observation System, DOTC said.
As for its aeronautical ground lighting, Panglao is set to have a Precision Approach Lighting System for runway 21 and a Simple Approach Lighting System for its runway 3.
Airport consultants are certain that with the way things are running, the 30 month completion target would force contractors to deliver, they said. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
President Aquino buries the Panglao Airport time capsule eight months after the contractor Chiyoda-Mitsubishi joint venture accepted the 30 month duration of the project expected to bring 3 times more tourists to Bohol and elsewhere in the region. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)