UP TO 34 million people a year will be walking over granite flooring laid by a Bahrain firm at the Indira Gandhi International Airport’s new Terminal 3 (T3), in New Dehli.

Bahrain mining and stone company Bramco Group set new technological standards during the project, as well as being the only key contractor led by a woman boss.
Bramco won the bid to handle all the stonework design and installation for the flooring, lifts and lobby areas. It was commissioned by managing company Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and main contractors GMR.
Bramco Group president Kanika Dewan led an 800-strong international group made up of engineers and workers from Bahrain, India, Germany, Romania, Italy and the Middle East.
T3, which sprawls over 5.4 million sq ft, is reportedly the world’s second largest terminal in size and, with a passenger handling capacity of 34 million a year, it will be the world’s sixth largest, in terms of capacity.
“The challenge was not merely the task of laying 1,030,000 sq m of stone, in a project fraught with delays in just 14 months,” said Dewan. “The real test was whether we would be able to maintain the highest aesthetic standards and blemish-free material consistency, over the massive area.
“We had to bore massive holes in the mountains of Saudi Arabia to mine 12,000 cu m of the best quality granite to ensure the same texture and colour variation, throughout.”
Some 12,000 cu m of the best quality granite was mined in Saudi Arabian mountains for the project, which called for some 500 sq m of stone to be processed at the Bramco factory in Bahrain every day.