Cairo International Airport Terminal Building 3

3 Level Landmark Terminal Building:

Capacity: 12 million passengers per year.

Components:

• Airside taxiway for A380 wide body aircraft.
• Latest technology: Security, safety and operational systems.
• Fifteen swing gates.
• Landside bridges/ flyovers: serving traffic to/ from the terminal building and surface car park.
• Automated baggage handling, screening and sorting system.
• Ancillary buildings: Apron control tower, power plant, HVAC equipment building, electrical substation, water reservoir and pumping stations.
• Halls: 320 x 150 m, for processing all arriving and departing passengers.
• Basement facilities: Stores, workshops, M&E area and baggage handling.
• Central main building is spacious enough to accommodate departure procedures and improve the passenger facilities to a higher level of functioning comfort, convenience and spaciousness.
• Gates for present and future peak hour traffic demands (aircraft and passengers).

Cladding and supporting structures were designed to withstand specific bomb blast loads, calculated by GMW.

Project Details

BUA: 164,000 m²

ECG/Netherlands Airport Consultants (NAC) JV

Construction Cost: USD 450 million