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Pick a major airport project in the GCC – from Doha to Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Madinah – and Turkey’s TAV Group is behind it. President and CEO Sani Sener talks about his bullish outlook on regional growth.
The TAV Group was founded in 1997 by a consortium led by two leading Turkish construction enterprises, namely Tepe Construction and Akfen Construction, both of whom remain majority shareholders in the group.
Tepe and Akfen have over 30 years’ domestic and international experience in the construction of infrastructure, housing, transportation, educational and industrial projects.
Sener says the catalyst for the establishment of the TAV Group was the awarding of the Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) contract for the new Istanbul Atatürk Airport International Terminal Complex in 1997, which was completed in only 22 months, eight months ahead of schedule.
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In January 2000, the TAV Group began to operate the new Istanbul Atatürk Airport facilities, and in just eight years has become one of the largest industrial holding groups in Turkey.
Although the TAV Group has evolved into a holding company comprising various subsidiaries, the original construction company has remained intact as TAV Construction, and has been executing all the construction projects contracted to the TAV Group since 1997.
Established in 2003, TAV Construction has undertaken projects totalling 300ha since then. TAV Construction is headquartered in Istanbul, with regional centres in Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Tunisia, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Macedonia, Muscat and Tripoli.
The company’s expert staff and experience offer airport construction services as well as know-how in technical maintenance and repairs, a field that is in short supply in the world. “It also offers consulting services in airport infrastructure, another growing need worldwide,” says Sener.
“Commanding wide respect due to its technical competence and experience in the field, TAV Construction is undertaking projects as sole contractor in general, but has also formed strategic partnerships with world giants such as the Japanese TAISEI, Brazilian Odebrachet and Lebanese CCC on certain projects.”
In the Middle East, TAV Construction has six branches and three subsidiary companies outside of Turkey. In the UAE, it has established branch offices in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai to capitalise on the burgeoning opportunities in the booming construction sector in the Gulf region.
Building on its initial project of constructing steel roof hangars in Dubai for Emirates’ A380 airliners, TAV Construction has constructed a large shopping mall, a private school and three high-rise buildings.
“TAV Construction is currently in the midst of a project to construct a high-rise tower that will mark the rapidly developing landscape of the region for years to come,” says Sener. In addition to its airport and terminal construction projects, TAV has various prestigious ongoing and completed building projects in the UAE.
Following TAV Construction’s successful bid to build the new terminal of the Cairo International Airport in Egypt, its Egyptian branch was incorporated in December 2004.
In addition to its ongoing work at the airport, the branch is also looking at new airport and related construction tenders in the region.
TAV Construction’s Qatar branch was established in April 2006 after it was awarded the tender to construct the passenger terminal complex at the New Doha International Airport (NDIA). In order to closely follow projects in Qatar, TAV Construction Doha LLC was established in March 2010.
On being awarded the New Tripoli International Terminal Buildings Project, TAV Construction’s Libya branch was established in September 2007. The Bahrain branch was established in September 2007.
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