Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract worth approximately $400m to replace the runway at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina.

It will build the replacement runway some 152m to the northwest to make room for the future expansion of the Terminal 2 concourse, and turn the existing runway into a taxiway.

Balfour Beatty is currently delivering the airport’s West Remain Over Night aircraft parking apron and runway slab replacement projects.

The approximate five-year construction of the new runway will begin once the airport completes the Environmental Assessment process, which is currently in progress with the Federal Aviation Administration.