USD2bn Doha airport expansion
Qatar has unveiled its USD2bn plan for Phase One of the new Doha International Airport at the World Travel Market in London. Half the site will be reclaimed from the sea and a new 130,000 square metre terminal built with 24 gates. Completion is scheduled for late 2008.

as of december 8 2003

Qatar, USD2.5bn airport tender
Qatar announced yesterday that its USD2.5bn airport expansion project phase one will go out to tender next month. Land reclamation work is expected to begin next September and completion of is scheduled for mid-2008. The USD5bn new airport will be located 3.5km north of the present terminal and serve up to 50m passengers a year on completion of the final phase in 2015.

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The Government of Qatar will spend US$2.5 billion for phase one of the airport. It will cover approximately 2,200 hectares.

The new green-field airport will be situated approximately four kilometers east of the existing airport. It will feature two runways mostly constructed on reclaimed land, an opening date capacity to handle 12 million passengers a year, with a 24-gate passenger terminal complex, including 25,000 square metres devoted to retail space. A new Amiri Terminal with additional hardstands, cargo terminal buildings, aircraft hangars and associated airline and airport ancillary features. The complex will also include three high-star classification hotels for the convenience of visitors, as well as transfer passengers

The second phase will include 16 contact gates and an extension of the terminal building to 219,000 square metres and a suspended monorail or ''people mover' to transport passengers through the terminal.

The final phase of development will include the addition of another 40 contact gates, bringing the final total to 80, together with a further extension to the terminal building to 416,000 square metres, capable of handling 50 million passengers per year.

NDIA will be the world's first airport to be designed and built from the ground-up, specifically for the Airbus A380-800 - the world's largest passenger aircraft. On completion of phase one during late 2008, the airport will be able to accommodate two A380-800s at any one time. By the time the airport is fully developed, it will be capable to accommodate six A380-800s.

In addition, the new airport will include a a free trade zone and business park, a new Qatar Airways' Headquarters building, new Qatar Airways' training facilities that will include flight simulators, and three road Interchanges to access the new airport from Ras Aboud Road.

Until the new airport is opened, the existing airport will be significantly upgraded to handle the increase in passenger growth. Qatar Airways has already announced a US$ 38 million programme to upgrade the terminal this year, as part of a broader US$ 140 million programme to increase the annual capacity of the airport from 4.2 million to 7.5 million passengers.

so this airport will also be able to dock the a380

has any other airport in the world started to build corresponding docks for these mega-jets? i don't think so

So far ive heard of three only, doha, dubai, and singapore.

this is great news , airports give visitors the first impression of the country :) i like that tower btw

Qatar's new airport set to open in 2009

17 February 2005

DUBAI — The development of Qatar's $5.5bn New Doha International Airport (NDIA) will be the focus of a key presentation in India, said Akbar Al Baker, NDIA's chief executive officer.

Al Baker, one of the speakers at Airport Build And Supply Exhibition and Conference in New Delhi yesterday highlighted plans for the new state-of-the-art airport, which commenced construction last month. Key figures from the airport industry worldwide will be at the two-day conference, taking place at the Ashok Convention Centre in New Delhi. The conference will be opened by Praful Patel, India's Civil Aviation Minister.

Al Baker said: "The first phase of NDIA is scheduled to open in 2009, at a cost of $2.5 billion.

Once fully developed in 2015, at a cost of $5.5bn, the airport is expected to handle up to 50 million passengers and 2 million tonnes of cargo per year.

Cant wait. Just wish they had started earlier on it so that it would be ready for asian games 2006.

first it was 2008, now it's 2009

seems to me airports take a long long time to build :dunno:

i'm excited about how many passengers will really arrive at qatar's new airport once it's finished!

The bahrain airport's upgrade will also include docks for A380 as I've read before. This will be a great airport, looks like it'll beat dubai for best single terminal.

Work starts on $5.5bn airport

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More than 60 million cu m of sand and rock fill are currently being placed to create a 22 sq km platform and shore protection over the next two years for the New Doha International Airport (NDIA) that will take shape 4 km to the east of the existing airport.

The work was launched early last month, following the signing of the $420 million dredging and reclamation contract – the fourth package to be tendered and awarded for the ambitious $5.5 billion project.

The steering committee of the NDIA signed the deal with a consortium made up of Qatar Dredging Company (a joint venture between the Belgian firm Dredging International, private Qatari partner UDC and the Government of Qatar), Dredging International of Belgium, Great Lakes Dredging and Dock of the US and Boskalis Westminster of the Netherlands.

In order to carry out the work, the consortium will require the mobilisation of several heavy-duty cutter suction dredgers and trailing suction hopper dredgers. A total of 11 major dredging vessels will be used to ensure completion of the work within the contractual time limit.

Since the award of this contract, Al Jaber Transport and General Contracting has also clinched the $34.3 million contract for the engineering landfill package while the local Teyseer Security Services has won the security package. Other contract awards are expected shortly for the passenger terminal foundations and the testing laboratory services.

Construction work officially began in January with a groundbreaking ceremony at the heart of the 1,700-hectare construction site in the presence of Qatar's Prime Minister, Shaikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani.

According to a spokesman for the project: “The New Doha International Airport will fulfill three critical roles: Qatar as the gateway to the world; a hub for the country’s national airline Qatar Airways and other carriers; and as a cargo and aircraft maintenance centre.

Scheduled to open in 2009, the NDIA will cost $2.5 billion for the first phase and will be capable of handling 12 million passengers a year, together with 750,000 tonnes of cargo. Once fully developed in 2015 at a cost of $5.5 billion, the airport is expected to handle up to 50 million passengers and two million tonnes of cargo a year.

“One of the project’s key features is that 40 per cent of the site will be built on reclaimed land from the Arabian Gulf,” says the spokesman. “In addition, the new airport will be the world’s first to be designed and built specifically for Airbus new A380-800 double-decker ‘super jumbo’ – the largest passenger aircraft ever built. The A380 will be capable of carrying more than 550 passengers. Qatar Airways, which will manage the new airport, is a launch customer and is taking delivery of the first of its four A380s in 2009, the year the new airport opens.”

The NDIA will also include one of the longest runways in a commercial airport — 5 km. “This new airport will play a very important role in the development of the aviation sector in Qatar and will be an ideal base for Qatar Airways and other international airlines,” says Abdul Aziz Mohamed Al Noami, chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Qatar and chairman of the NDIA steering committee.

According to Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways' chief executive officer, the new airport will be an engineering feat and promises to be a state-of-the-art facility in the region when it opens.

When finished, the NDIA will be approximately two-thirds the size of the Doha. The contract for the first phase of the airport construction and the planning and design phase was awarded to Bechtel Group. The project started in early 2004 with a detailed planning and design phase and Bechtel produced a master plan of the new airport.

Phase 1
Bechtel is aready moving ahead with the tendering of packages under phase one of the project. The firm has invited contractors to pre-qualification for the airside/landside roads contract which comprises a design-and-build package that includes the provision of further design works to detail the existing conceptual design, the provision and construction of airside and landside roads, bridges, multi-level highway interchanges, street and area lighting. Documents were due to be submitted by the end of last month.
Contractors have also been invited to prequalify for the design-and-build package for the airport operations facilities.

The first phase construction of the new airport will include two parallel runways (4,250 m and 4,850 m) designed specifically to accommodate the new Airbus A380-800.

A three-storey terminal structure will include a landside terminal with a departures hall for passenger check-in, arrivals hall for passport control and baggage claim. The terminal concourse will have 26 contact gates and facilities to serve several remote gates as well as extensive retail facilities.
The state-of-the-art passenger terminal with a wavy roof structure will be accessed through a roadway network that passes through a man-made lagoon to complement the natural bay and water setting of the airport.
Phase One will also include a separate Amiri Terminal, which will be an architectural marvel, with the exterior shape of the pavilion representing sail boats that complement the setting. The building is layered to provide a striking effect and will light up the night sky. The complex will also include a pavilion, ceremonial podium, apron, private roadways and parking, surrounded by lush landscaping.

The airport complex will have a 75-m-high control tower located between the parallel runways, multi-storey office building, parking and access roads. Triangular in shape with one angle cut by a crescent shape all along its height, the structure will be topped by a glazed cabin.

The NDIA complex will have a luxury hotel and a transit hotel and will also include a cargo terminal (750,000 tonnes per year); additional hard standing areas for the passenger terminal; hangar space for two A380-800s and three A340s at the same time; and a maintenance centre. There will also be a 1,900 sq m airport mosque with a minaret in a garden plaza located on the south side of the airport’s main passenger terminal.

The airport, which has been described as “a small city within a city” will include a business park, a free trade zone, a courier and mail facility and a general aviation facility.

The national airline Qatar Airways will also be relocating its headquarters and training facilities to the new Doha airport, as the airport is expected to become a major regional ‘hub’.

Also part of the plan are three new major road interchanges to provide access to the new airport from the city and surrounding areas.

Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum has been selected to provide architecture, MEP engineering and landscape architecture services for the first phase of the passenger terminal complex. Working under a contract with Bechtel, HOK’s Aviation Group will collaborate with the HOK San Francisco office to lead the design of a new 1.5 million sq ft passenger terminal, an 800-slot car parking structure, mosque, central utility plant and site improvements.

The first phase is due to be completed in early 2009 and will allow the airport to service two A380-800 at the same time.

Phases II & III
The second phase of construction will include the addition of a further 16 contact gates and an extension of the terminal building to 219,000 sq m. In addition, there will be a suspended monorail system for passenger transit through the terminal. A further luxury hotel will be constructed to accommodate the additional passenger capacity of more than 25 million per year passing through the airport.

The third phase will include a further 40 contact gates, which would bring the final total to 80. To accommodate the extra gates, the terminal building will extend to 416,000 sq m and would be capable of handling over 50 million passengers per year.

It will also encompass an automated passenger train system – or “people mover”— to transport passengers through the terminal.

The projected date for final completion is 2015. When fully completed the new Doha airport will be able to service six A380-800 Super Jumbos simultaneously.

Bechtel to seek contractors for $2bn airport work

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Tenders worth up to $2 billion are still to be announced by the Middle East's only greenfield airport, New Doha International Airport, the mega-project's programme management firm confirmed.

"So far, we have awarded contracts worth about $600 million for site mobilization, land reclamation and rubbish landfield removal work," said Rudy Vercelli, director, Global Strategic Development, Bechtel Aviation, which was awarded the engineering, project and construction management contract in early 2004.

"Our priority in the coming months will be finding the most advanced and qualified airport equipment suppliers in the market and our needs cover a vast range of goods, from runway lighting to baggage scanning and handling systems," said Vercelli who will be addressing an audience of airport suppliers at the region's leading specialised event, the Airport Build & Supply Exhibition taking place from May 23-25.

At the event, which is held at Dubai's Airport Expo, Vercelli will give exhibitors information about the New Doha International Airport. Bechtel's needs and demands, as well as the airport's tendering procedure will be thoroughly explained in an attempt to expose the project to a maximum amount of bidders.

"Our goal is to open lines of communication with as many contractors and suppliers as possible, as this will ultimately ensure we tap the best companies in the marketplace and obtain the most competitive prices," he said.

Situated approximately 4 km east of the existing airport, the New Doha International Airport will feature two runways mostly constructed on reclaimed land. The project's master plan lays out a development in three stages, with Phase One scheduled for completion by late 2008 or early 2009. By the time it is fully developed, the airport will have 80 contact gates with a capacity to handle over 50 million passengers per year.

"With a total area equivalent to more than a third of the size of the whole city of Doha, the New Doha International Airport is one of the most challenging and ambitious projects in the world at the moment and Vercelli's presentation will be a great help for exhibitors who want to be a part of this project" said Nick Webb, director, Streamline Marketing, organisers of the Airport Build & Supply Exhibition.

Now in its fifth year, the event attracts a targeted audience of regional departments of Civil Aviation, government officials, VIPs and Middle East-based consultants and contractors behind many of the region's airport development projects.

Held under the patronage of Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, president of the Department of Civil Aviation, Dubai and chairman of Emirates Group, the exhibition also enjoys the support of the French Airport & ATC Technology Trade Association (PROAVIA), which represents the interests of 40 major French manufacturers. There will be dedicated pavilions representing German Airport Technology & Equipment (GATE), British Airports Group and Netherlands Airport Technology (NAT).

All exhibitors have pre-arranged meetings with the relevant project manager, engineer or architect in the Dubai DCA and/or their consultants, enabling them to discuss Dubai International Airport's expansion as well as the new Jebel Ali Airport.

Montreal is working to implant the mega jets i think they finished last year if not this year.

The early A380 airports are:

2006/2007:

* LHR, CDG, LGW, SIN, NRT, SYD, JFK, LAX, SFO, MIA, DXB, DOH

2007/2009:

* FRA, BKK, HKG, KIX, EWR, MEM, ORD, IND, ANC, STN, YUL, …

Other early potential destinations could be:

* MAD, AMS, TPE, SEL, DEL, BOM, KUL, MEL, BNE, AKL, IAD, MCO, RUH,

JED, KHI, EZE, MEX, YVR

^ Add Bahrain to that, they're upgrading the airport for the new A380s.

NICE, this will be a world class airport.

Why are they reclaiming from the sea? I think Qatar already has big space on land.

skyfan i totally agree with you, i really dont understand why they are reclaiming and wasting a beatiful beach for an airport. I dont know where it is written that an airport has to be by the sea. :<

^ I mean your bound to fly over the sea to land mostly in Qatar, but maybe more sea hehe.

Bechtel to seek contractors for $2bn airport work

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Tenders worth up to $2 billion are still to be announced by the Middle East's only greenfield airport, New Doha International Airport, the mega-project's programme management firm confirmed.

"So far, we have awarded contracts worth about $600 million for site mobilization, land reclamation and rubbish landfield removal work," said Rudy Vercelli, director, Global Strategic Development, Bechtel Aviation, which was awarded the engineering, project and construction management contract in early 2004.

"Our priority in the coming months will be finding the most advanced and qualified airport equipment suppliers in the market and our needs cover a vast range of goods, from runway lighting to baggage scanning and handling systems," said Vercelli who will be addressing an audience of airport suppliers at the region's leading specialised event, the Airport Build & Supply Exhibition taking place from May 23-25.

At the event, which is held at Dubai's Airport Expo, Vercelli will give exhibitors information about the New Doha International Airport. Bechtel's needs and demands, as well as the airport's tendering procedure will be thoroughly explained in an attempt to expose the project to a maximum amount of bidders.

"Our goal is to open lines of communication with as many contractors and suppliers as possible, as this will ultimately ensure we tap the best companies in the marketplace and obtain the most competitive prices," he said.

Situated approximately 4 km east of the existing airport, the New Doha International Airport will feature two runways mostly constructed on reclaimed land. The project's master plan lays out a development in three stages, with Phase One scheduled for completion by late 2008 or early 2009. By the time it is fully developed, the airport will have 80 contact gates with a capacity to handle over 50 million passengers per year.

"With a total area equivalent to more than a third of the size of the whole city of Doha, the New Doha International Airport is one of the most challenging and ambitious projects in the world at the moment and Vercelli's presentation will be a great help for exhibitors who want to be a part of this project" said Nick Webb, director, Streamline Marketing, organisers of the Airport Build & Supply Exhibition.

Now in its fifth year, the event attracts a targeted audience of regional departments of Civil Aviation, government officials, VIPs and Middle East-based consultants and contractors behind many of the region's airport development projects.

Held under the patronage of Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, president of the Department of Civil Aviation, Dubai and chairman of Emirates Group, the exhibition also enjoys the support of the French Airport & ATC Technology Trade Association (PROAVIA), which represents the interests of 40 major French manufacturers. There will be dedicated pavilions representing German Airport Technology & Equipment (GATE), British Airports Group and Netherlands Airport Technology (NAT).

All exhibitors have pre-arranged meetings with the relevant project manager, engineer or architect in the Dubai DCA and/or their consultants, enabling them to discuss Dubai International Airport's expansion as well as the new Jebel Ali Airport.
KRAZY have you a new update of the project?

Check the sub-forum having the title of DOha projects and Beyond and check the thread for the new airport in Doha.^^