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Imtech insolvency adds to Berlin's airport woes
http://www.dw.com/en/imtech-insolvency-adds-to-berlins-airport-woes/a-18634558Berlin's beleaguered new airport, already a stain on Germany's reputation for precision and efficiency, has suffered another setback. A contractor that was repairing a faulty fire safety system has filed for bankruptcy.
Imtech insolvency adds to Berlin's airport woes
Chris Cottrell
07.08.2015
Bungled construction and spiraling costs have already delayed the opening of the Berlin Brandenburg Airport four times. Now project leaders are looking at delay No. 5.
German politicians warned on Friday that the insolvency filing of Imtech Deutschland, a German subsidiary of the Dutch group Royal Imtech, could once again push back the airport's opening indefinitely.
"I believe the opening date is in great danger," the chairman of the Berlin government's inquiry into the airport's budgetary and technical problems, Martin Delius, told German public radio.
A long list of repairs
Those problems have included hundreds of repairs to be made before the first travelers can set foot inside BER's towering steel and glass terminal. Imtech Deutschland had been tasked with doing important electrical, ventilation and plumbing work.