Airport Expansion Project

A supreme order, calling for the development of KAIA according to state-of-the-art standards, has been issued. The main objective of this development is to achieve certain goals that exceed current needs. This step forward is intended to keep pace with passenger requirements and preferences, as well as the interests of investors, airlines, and other airport users. Further, this step is consistent with advanced international standards for accommodating the new generation of wide-body traffic, such as the Airbus 380, and therefore will enable the airport to contribute effectively to air traffic and economic growth of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The supreme order also directed to commence the necessary steps of the airport development, which started with the preparation of the Airport Master Plan to ensure the implementation of the expansion project in an appropriate, cost-effective location, within the current airport parameters. In addition, it calls for using the highest international construction standards for present and future development elements, and ensure optimum utilization of available space, as well as to meet the expected increase in passenger volume over the coming 30 years.

A number of qualified international and national companies will be invited to bid for the timeliest possible execution of the airport airside facilities development project contract. The re-design tender for the project elements will be tendered to ensure that their size is consistent with the appropriate site and that they serve the PCA’s new commercial orientation. In addition, the program management services contract will be tendered according to current requirements, then the construction of the terminal and support buildings complex will commence immediately after selection of an appropriate site in accordance with the fast track approach and the design phased development works.

Certain modifications and improvements will be made in both the south (Saudia) and north (foreign airlines) terminals, to facilitate continuity of operations until the major airport expansion project has been completed. The funds necessary for these elements already have been allocated, in the 1425-1426 AH fiscal year budget.

After the new airport development works have been completed and operations have been transferred to the new terminal complex, the existing passenger terminals, they may be re-used for many other purposes

The capacity of the new terminals, together with their associated facilities, is envisaged to be 30 million passengers a year in Phase One, with the potential of serving as many as 60 million passengers later. All airport facilities will be capable of accommodating the new generation of wide-body aircraft, particularly the Airbus 380.



The estimated cost of the airport’s expansion project is four (4) Billion riyals, i.e., over one billion US dollars. However, the final cost will be determined when the project execution contracts have been awarded.

I think Jeddah needs this more than any other city in saudi. It's good or let me say, well-needed.

I do hope they are serious about it this time. But I believe constructing a completely new one would be a much better idea. In other words, we are gona be better off having two airports in the city. The existing one can be used for local flights only, and the new one can be for both.

yours, Jeddawi

No. We don't need a second airport. Jeddah airport handles only ~14 million pax/ 94 thousand aircraft movements. This is from an airport that has 3 parallel runways, large parking aprons, and huge expanse of empty space that can be used for future expansion. If it wasn't for the terminal buildings, Jeddah airport could handle more today than major airports like London Heathrow, Frankfurt Main, and Paris CDG.

The original plan was to expand the current south terminal, and turn it into a modern 25 million pax capacity terminal, but with the extra cash now available, they're going for a grand, clean slate, brand new terminal with 30 million pax capacity.

Yeah! Jeddah really needs this. The current airport really stinks and expanding it would be useless. A new one would do the job.

I have good news, the contract will be awarded in January. Construction should start right after.

Any renders of it so far Riyadhi?

I've been through this airport for like seven, eight times now. It is one of the worst airports I've ever been to. The airport itself isn't the only thing u need to modernize. Your staff needs a serious training immediately.

What I really hate are the staff who stick their body upon us so that we let them carry our luggage. What is annoying more is that they don't have a mean of communication skills and they complain if we didn't give them much. They are pushy and demanding.

If u were an Emirati, they would stick on u like superglue and if u complained about paying they say: Emirati nationals arent supposed to ask about the price. As if we have to accept being cheated.

Then u have the security who treat passengers as criminals and the help disk which doesnt help u at all.

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VC15Nets,
Expanding it is useless? Read my previous post.

Smussuw,
They're not that bad, but the place is chaotic and in need of organisation.

Riyadhi,
Those are renders of the old design by NACO

Expanding it would be useless because I think they can spend a similar amount of money and get a new one. Its an investment for the future and no matter how large it is, it will eventually pay off. The current airport makes a transit passenger feel as if hes in a third world country and I'm sure it isnt any better for a pilgrim. Jeddah really needs to start from scratch with a new airport. I think the city and the millions of pilgrims deserve a new airport instead of an expansion of the old one. I think your point is valid but it might be better to turn the leaf and have a fresh start.

Jeddah Airport needs to let DNATA do the stuff there :D

I think that the old terminals will be kept to serve the pilgrims.


Hijazzy,
Do you know why did they dismiss the old design?

Hi Riyadhi,

Well, the old expansion was cancelled at the last minute. I think the main reason was money. They got more of it, so now they can afford something bigger.

And the old design wasn't without it's drawbacks. Construction work would inevitably cause some disruption to operations at the south terminal. Plus, further expansion of the terminal would be difficult, so any extra capacity would probably require a new terminal.

i really hope this begins as quickly as possible, the old proposal was the only info released by the government for a very very long time with almost no news whatsoever.

hijazzy, do you work for Saudi Airlines?

Expanding it would be useless because I think they can spend a similar amount of money and get a new one. Its an investment for the future and no matter how large it is, it will eventually pay off. The current airport makes a transit passenger feel as if hes in a third world country and I'm sure it isnt any better for a pilgrim. Jeddah really needs to start from scratch with a new airport. I think the city and the millions of pilgrims deserve a new airport instead of an expansion of the old one. I think your point is valid but it might be better to turn the leaf and have a fresh start.

Does anyone have any pictures of Jeddah airport??? Both the pilgrim and regular terminals. You all seem to describe it in pretty bad shape, one that is in need of an upgrade and expansion. However lets have some pictures to show what its like.

Riyadhi,

Nope. I don't work for Saudia. I'm just bored enough to research it ;) :D

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Subangite,

I'll post some pics in a bit.

its actually a really nice terminal but limited capacity. and they dont have jetbridges they have buses

bump. no pics yet?

Sorry, I forgot.

Airport general view
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/ahmadof/airport/AIRPORT.jpg

South terminal
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/ahmadof/airport/KAIA_SouthTerm.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/ahmadof/airport/southterminal.jpg

Interior shots
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Oh that's sooooooooooooooo ugly :puke: and soooooo :ancient: :old: !!

any updates?

Not much, although I had a chat with a friend of mine. He's not involved with the new terminal project, but with something related, and he's seen the plans for the new terminal.

It will be located in the midfield area between the central and eastern runways. This is a huge area (you can fit the new Beijing mega terminal in there), so they won't build it up straight away. Phase 1 only takes up a portion, there are two additional areas for further expansion. The new terminal apparently a "spider-like", which I would imagine means it has a double Y shape.

The current north and south terminals will be decomissioned upon completion (I'm thinking they can use one as a low cost airline terminal). Most existing facilities should remain intact.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/ahmadof/airport/jed.jpg

I think they started some sort of renouvation to the old terminals.

hopefully they'll try to keep the same achitecture or make it a bit more modern for the new terminal. Too many new airports have that concrete generic look to it. Jeddah Airport's exterior is still really nice and should be incorporated with the new terminal

What? No no no. We don't want anything to remind us of the current terminals. Once the new terminal is finished we will pretend the older ones never existed :D !

All pictures of the old terminals will be destroyed. The word "mobile lounge" will be banned. :lol:

^^^ Exactly.. The current terminals in Jeddah are extremely old. They look like 70's syle concrete structure. It is also extremely small given the size of the aircraft movement. So, hopefully they will build the new airport quick!

Jeddah Airport is going to have a rail link and new terminal with capacity of 30 million people a year.


Railways Will Connect Jeddah’s New Airport to Holy Cities
Hasan Hatrash, Arab News

JEDDAH, 27 December 2005 — Two railroad stations will be built in Jeddah’s new King Abdul Aziz International Airport to help facilitate flow of pilgrims between Jeddah and the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, announced Abdullah Rahaimy, head of the General Authority of Civil Aviation.

“The construction of the two stations is planned with the Saudi Railway Organization to coincide with the establishment of the new airport, which is to be constructed soon,” he said.

Rahaimy was speaking to the press yesterday at the Haj Terminal during an inspection tour by Abdullah Al-Fayez, undersecretary at the Makkah governorate.

Rahaimy said the first phase of the new airport involves constructing terminals to accommodate 30 million passengers a year.

He noted that expansion projects would be studied every five years according to the growth of flight operations in the region. The projects would include development and upgrade of the current terminals, including adding new operating systems and facilities, runways, lights, and fuel connections.

The projects, he said, will start as soon as the bidding process for contractors was complete.

Addressing the Jamrat Bridge project, Fayez said construction would begin on Jan. 15, immediately after the end of Haj.

The government has approved the demolition of the current bridge, and the new one will contain four levels with 24 access routes to accommodate the increasing number of pilgrims each year for the stoning ritual.

“This will help ensuring maximum ease of movement for pilgrims and reduce the number of accidents,” said Fayez.

He added that civil defense authorities have taken measures to prevent floods in the holy sites in case of rains during the Haj. Fayez also took a tour around the Haj Terminal and received a batch of pilgrims from an Asian country, presenting them with gifts.

LINK (http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=75362&d=27&m=12&y=2005)

On airport technologies website it shows these renderings:

http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/abdul_aziz/images/KING2.jpg

I think they have Dahrans airport mixed up with jeddah, i expect much better termnals for $1.5 billion dollars.

Lets just hope architecturally it can compete with other Gulf airports such as Dubai and Doha.... Okay i might be dreaming a bit here :lol: But lets keep our fingers crossed on this one.

On airport technologies website it shows these renderings:

http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/abdul_aziz/images/KING2.jpg

I think they have Dahrans airport mixed up with jeddah, i expect much better termnals for $1.5 billion dollars.

Yep. Its Dammam's King Fahd International Airport. Its a beautiful airport especially from the inside.

Errm, those are not renderings. That's Dammam airport!

As for architecture, to be honest with you, I don't think Dubai airport is particularly great architecturally. Impressive, yes. Beautiful, no.

I'm hoping we get something more distinctive than the usual glass and steel.

Errm, those are not renderings. That's Dammam airport!

As for architecture, to be honest with you, I don't think Dubai airport is particularly great architecturally. Impressive, yes. Beautiful, no.

I'm hoping we get something more distinctive than the usual glass and steel.

I guess airport technologies fudged up pretty bad then.
LINK (http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/abdul_aziz/)

Hijazzey,

Any clue about this?

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مشروع توسعة وتطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة
لقد صدر الأمر السامي الكريم بالبدء في تطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي وفقاً للمعايير الحديثة لصناعة الطيران ، وبحيث يحقق ذلك التطوير رؤى معينة تتعدى الاحتياجات التقليدية . وتأتي هذه الخطوة لتواكب متطلبات المسافرين ورغباتهم ومصالح مستخدمي المطار والمستثمرين وكذلك خطوط الطيران ، وتتكامل مع قطاعات النقل الأخرى وتأخذ في الاعتبار احدث المعايير العالمية لاستيعاب الجيل الجديد من الطائرات العملاقة مثل الايرباص (380) ولجعل المطار يساهم مساهمة فعالة في تنمية الحركة الجوية والاقتصادية بالمملكة، كما أن الأمر السامي وجه بالبدء في اتخاذ الخطوات التطويرية بالمطار والتي بدأت بإنجاز دراسة المخطط العام للمطار بغية تنفيذ مشروع التوسعة في موقع مثالي داخل حرم المطار يضمن اقل التكاليف وان يتم الإنجاز وفق الأسس العالمية السليمة لعناصر التطوير الحالي والمستقبلي بما يحقق الاستخدام الأمثل للمساحات المتاحة ملبياً الزيادة المتوقعة في أعداد المسافرين خلال الأعوام الـ 30 المقبلة .

كما أنه تم دعوة عدد من الشركات الوطنية والعالمية المؤهلة للمنافسة على عقد مشروع تطوير المرافق الموجودة داخل الساحة الجوية للبدء الفوري في تنفيذه، وسيتم طرح عقد تعديل التصاميم لعناصر المشروع بما يتناسب مع الموقع المثالي وبما يخدم الرؤى الاقتصادية الجديدة لرئاسة الطيران المدني وطرح عقد خدمات إدارة البرنامج وفقاً للمتطلبات الراهنة ومن ثم البدء في تنفيذ مجمع الصالات والمباني المساندة وفقاً للطريقة المتسارعة في التنفيذ فور تحديد الموقع المثالي للتطوير المرحلي للتصميم.

هذا وستتم بعض التعديلات والتحسينات في كل من الصالــة الجنوبيـــة (الخطوط السعودية) والصالة الشمالية (الخطوط الأجنبية) بمطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي بجدة لاستيعاب الزيادة في عدد مستخدمي المطار كحل مؤقت ريثما ينتهي المشروع الرئيسي لتوسعة المطار وقد تم اعتماد التكاليف الخاصة بتلك المشاريع في ميزانية العام المالي الحالي 1425/1426هـ.

أما بالنسبة لصالات السفر الحالية فإن فرص الاستفادة منها تبقى قائمة لأغراض عديدة حتى بعد اكتمال جميع أعمال التطوير للمطار والانتقال إلى مجمع الصالات الجديد والذي سوف يكون برؤية جديدة تخدم أهداف مستقبلية سواء لهيئة الطيران (مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي) أو جمهور المسافرين وقطاع الأعمال والمواصلات .. ومن المتوقع أن تكون الطاقة الاستيعابية للصالات الجديدة والمرافق التابعة لها (30) مليون مسافر سنوياً في المرحلة الأولى قابلة للارتفاع إلى (60) مليون مسافر لاحقاً . وستكون جميع مرافق المطار قادرة على استيعاب الجيل الجديد من الطائرات العملاقة لاسيما طائرة الايرباص 380 ، أما التكلفة المبدئية لمشروع توسعة المطار فتقدر بنحو (4) بليون ريال أي ما يزيد عن بليون دولار أمريكي ، إلا أن تحديد التكلفة النهائية سيتم بعد ترسية عقود تنفيذ المشروع.

Yeah i know that.........its the expansion renderings of Jeddah's airport...........
its absolutely MAGNIFICENT.............................................

i don't kno whether its the whole new air port or it will be joined with the older one...............................
but i "think" it is the new one.............cuz it has got its own entrance..........

Can any one translate it? Just a bit please

Source (http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=85489&d=17&m=7&y=2006)

Work on New Jeddah Airport to Begin by September
Roger Harrison, Arab News


JEDDAH, 17 July 2006 — Four new terminal buildings, a high-speed rail link and a capacity for up to 80 million passengers a year are among the targets proposed for the new Jeddah international airport. The new development should take place in three stages, the first of which could be completed in five years.

The project is designed to increase the airport’s capacity initially from 13 million passengers by 30 million passengers each year. The expansion includes airfield hard standing and paved areas, lighting, fuel network systems and storm water drainage network. There will also be a newly constructed support services building, renovation of the existing South and North Terminals and upgrades to the existing runway and airfield systems to accommodate the Airbus A380.

The three stages, according to the Civil Aviation Authority, will be marked by an increase of capacity to 30 million, 60 million and eventually 80 million passengers per year. Based on current traffic increase, the existing South Terminal will need to serve about 21 million passengers per year over the next 20 years to meet growing demand. During the 2000 Haj season it received 2.6 million travelers and around one million pilgrims. The airport has to provide the facilities required for the service of pilgrims and those who visit the country to perform Umrah.

The project has reached the final stages of planning and design and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved a budget of SR900 million to build the futuristic new airport to international standards.

Abdullah Al-Rehaimy, president of the Civil Aviation Authority, has said that the project will be built by local companies.

The four new crescent-shaped passenger halls will be located to the south of the current international terminal which will be undergoing renovation at the same time.

Talal Saaty, speaking at a presentation of the project to Jeddah Governor Prince Mishaal ibn Majed, said that work on the improvements could start as early as this coming September. Operational capacity for the airport, he said, would increase and denied that upgrading work would hamper traffic throughput. Work on renewing and upgrading the facilities, he said, would be timed to avoid peak traffic flow.

Access to the new terminals is still in the planning and purchasing stage. An extension of Prince Majed Street will make access direct and easy; the municipality is currently investigating the location of land needed for the proposed extension and is addressing the problem of the compulsory purchase of property and compensation.

Southward, Prince Majed Street will connect to the Al-Laith Highway, forming a fast north-south transit route.

As well as much improved road access, plans have been made for a high-speed rail link serving the airport. Starting at Prince Majed Street, the link will run into the airport and hook up with terminals.

Call me cynical but:

1. The proposed budget doesn't seem like it'll cover all the things they expect it to cover.

2. Local companies doing the construction --> not sure if that's the best idea....but I could be wrong...the saudi bin laden group does good work..

3. If those are the actual renderings....the design wasn't thought out too well because a terminal like that leaves little room for expansion. Of course you could build remote terminals which are then linked to the main terminal by bus...but that sucks...that's how the Dulles airport is in DC.

4. I hope they teach the people working at the airport (custom officials, etc) that their job is to provide a service....not be arrogant ****** who're allowed to take coffee, prayer, chat breaks a few times every hour, keeping hundreds of people in line waiting for hours. A good airport is one that has good infrastructure as well as good customer service...and for GOD's sake...I hope they're at least somewhat professional-looking (in terms of the way they dress and conduct themselves)..

thats the original rendering I doubt its the new one as the new project calls for 4 crescent shaped passenger halls south of the international airport. I agree the equivalent of $300 million US wont be able to do half of what they want.

what happend to this exhipition

^^huh?

A presentation on the expansion project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUczzaZTUY

HiJazzey, it looks really good. Thank you very much for the link.

I appologize, but I'm not totally yp to date with this project. My question is, have they not been talking about building/renovating this airport for a while now? Why is it taking so long? Is this gonna happen or not?

i think it be build after 10 year in less:D

all the best to jeddah the city i fell in love with.
but the current airport is huge and can be modernised and it is not far from the city ive used it myself
JEDDAH IS BOOMING:banana:

Pretty ambitious project but my beef with the Saudi airports is not always with infrastructure but the attitude of the people who work there....let's hope at the new airport they'll treat us like customers and not criminals..

i think it be build after 10 year in less:D

Who said so? Expension already started but only the halls now for 1 year and half and then the expension of airstrips and so on will be started to be finished inshallah within 5 years.

are you sure!!! i dont trust theme in prograss but lets hope that :master:

Sure 100% :okay: It already started.

i just came from jeddah

and i saw then working on it

they already started

^^wow you make my day:)
chenge the title to #UNDER C-Jeddah:"Jeddah Airport Expansion".

^^wow you make my day:)
chenge the title to #UNDER C-Jeddah:"Jeddah Airport Expansion".

done

i was there afternoon i seen walls in that plot on map soon construction will start on it they put the render on boards too!!!!
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/891/snapshot20070511224248kg2.jpg

Pretty ambitious project but my beef with the Saudi airports is not always with infrastructure but the attitude of the people who work there....let's hope at the new airport they'll treat us like customers and not criminals..I 2nd that

^^ :lol:

LOL... it seems plenty of people have stuff to say about Jeddah Airport service. I thought I was experiencing something weird.

5 years for the 30 million capacity terminal still seems like a long wait if you think about their current facilities.

^^ at least things started to change and extension work already started alhamdulillah.

yes alhamdullah

http://www.almadinapress.com/images/thumbnails/78887.jpg

Operations began expanding passenger terminal in North Jeddah, in view of the officials at the airport would not affect the pace of work on ending the travel procedures, Said Mohamed Barakat, director of the north lounge has been set specific paths for passengers, the separation of the work area, according to begin organizing certain halls at a specific time, which makes both passengers departing or arriving do not feel the presence of the work despite the sense of evolution that occurs in the ballroom Alhamaliver.

For his part, Eng Maher Scempaoh that work at the airport and take a flexible position at the time and division are not felt by the passengers so New Caledonia developments without Etigerwa happens or any kind of congestion and will be receiving passengers smoothly and speed and flexibility،During that movement active coincide specified timing of the four until the 11th day Wednesday to Friday.

He pointed out that Scempaoh north lounge experiencing overcrowding less than the south lounge experiencing intense overcrowding in such a period of almost unrelenting where flights continuing round-trip in addition to the space constraints of the international and domestic travel, And despite the attempt Saudi airlines and other companies, but there is pressure in addition to the work in the south lounge take a different path on the north lounge and this makes no big difference between the northern and southern lounges.Vary congestion during the week between the beginning and central to the script and between the first day and the script during the summer of this year because of the emergence of many factors, the most important recent developments in the airport expansions and improvements that have occurred by the intensity of the arrival of more flights for airlines Arab and foreign countries in the evening which increases congestion ratios in the afternoon in the morning where vary increase and decrease according to the number and timing of flights.

The flights were started during the day on the decline in the mid-summer this year in North Lobby King Abdul Aziz airport to international attributing natural passenger entry and exit, Coinciding with the tourist season and the start of operational work for the expansion and improvement of the hall. Began as a travel and inspection oriented lighter with the coordination occurs between all stakeholders in the airport, foreign airlines in terms of inspection procedures and the number of flights and passengers quickly reception.


تركي سليهم - جدة
بدأت عمليات توسعة صالة المسافرين الشمالية في جدة، في ظل حرص مسؤولي المطار على ألا تؤثر هذه الأعمال على سرعة إنهاء إجراءات السفر ، وقال محمد بركات مدير الصالة الشمالية إنه تم وضع مسارات معينة للمسافرين ، وفصل منطقة العمل والبدء وفق تنظيم معين بين الصالات وفي وقت محدد الأمر الذي يجعل المسافرين سواء المغادرين او القادمين لا يشعرون بوجود أعمال رغم إحساسهم بالتطور الذي يحدث في الصالة الشمالية.

من جهته أكد المهندس ماهر سمباوة أن العمل في المطار يأخذ وضعا مرنا في الوقت والتقسيم بشكل لا يشعر به المسافرون بحيث يتلمسون التطورات دون أن يتضجروا او يحدث أي نوع من الازدحام وليتم استقبال المسافرين بسلاسة وسرعة ومرونة ، وأبان أن الحركة النشطة تتزامن بتوقيت محدد من الساعة الرابعة حتى الحادية عشرة في أيام الأربعاء الى الجمعة .

وأشار سمباوة إلى ان الصالة الشمالية تشهد زحاماً أقل من الصالة الجنوبية التي تشهد زحاماً كثيفاً في مثل هذه الفترة من العام وهي تكاد لا تهدأ حيث الرحلات المتواصلة ذهابا وعودة بالإضافة الى ضيق المساحة بوجود منطقة سفر دولية وداخلية ،ورغم محاولة الخطوط السعودية والشركات الأخرى الا أن هناك ضغطا بالإضافة الى أن الأعمال في الصالة الجنوبية تأخذ منحى مختلفا عن الصالة الشمالية وهذا يجعل هناك فارقا كبيرا بين الصالتين الشمالية والجنوبية .وتتفاوت نسب الازدحام خلال الأسبوع بين بدايته ووسطه الى آخره و بين اول النهار وآخره خلال صيف هذا العام نظرا لنشوء عوامل عديدة أهمها التطورات الأخيرة التي طرأت على المطار والتوسعات والتحسينات التي حدثت به إضافة الى كثافة قدوم اكثر الرحلات لخطوط الطيران العربية والأجنبية في الفترة المسائية الأمر الذي يزيد نسب الازدحام في الفترة المسائية عنها في الصباحية حيث تتفاوت زيادة ونقصانا وفقا لعدد الرحلات وتوقيتها .

وكانت الرحلات الجوية بدأت خلال النهار في التقلص في منتصف صيف العام الجاري بالصالة الشمالية في مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي الى نسبها الطبيعية في صالات القدوم والمغادرة ، تزامنا مع الموسم السياحي و بدء الأعمال التنفيذية لتوسيع الصالة وتحسينها .حيث بدأت رحلات السفر والتفتيش تأخذ منحى أخف مع التنسيق الذي يحدث بين الجهات المعنية في المطار وشركات الطيران الأجنبية من حيث إجراءات التفتيش وعدد الرحلات وسرعة استقبال الركاب

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hey guys..
a friend working with a French company "the one doing the new Hajj city in Jeddah Airport" that they finished 60% from the constructions in the Hajj city and they started the work in the north terminal...

aha good news

Good to hear. Aeroports De Paris / Bin Ladin won the concession to expand and operate the Hajj terminal last year so they they should well under way.

BTW the Hajj terminal project is totally seperate from the rest of the airport. The airport expansion project is done by the government.

^^^^^,what about the other project??the one with 3 terminals?
is it still going?or got canceled??

NICE

Hi everybody, i am new to this forum. I came across this information. Hope u will like it.

http://www.tradearabia.com/source/2007-09/30/jeddah.gif

Jeddah: Sun, 30 Sep 2007
Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) will this week announce the top bidder among five companies vying for the contract to operate the Kingdom’s three international airports.

The winner of the contract will start work early next year and continue until December 2013, said GACA president Abdullah Al Ruhaimy.

He estimated total expenditure on new airport projects in Saudi Arabia at SR20 billion (around $5.3 billion).

The official, quoted by the Arab News, also said the short-listed companies are from Singapore, the Netherlands, Turkey, Germany and France.

“We’ll merge the airport management department at GACA with that of the new company,” he said in the report.

He said the GACA department would provide technical and administrative support to the new international service provider.

Ruhaimy said the winner of the contract would not only operate the international airports in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, but “will also provide training to GACA staff internally and externally in order to speed up transfer of technology'.

GACA has already awarded operation of duty-free shops at Saudi international airports to Al Misbah Group and its foreign partner Desa, a Spanish company. The GACA is expected to make a revenue of SR800 million from these shops within the next 10 years.

Ruhaimy said efforts were under way to establish a new Haj terminal at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah with the private sector support, and would be ready by 2011.

He said GACA expects an annual increase of eight percent in air traffic. Last year, more than 15 million passengers used the Jeddah airport while the airports in Riyadh and Dammam received 11 million and 3.5 million passengers, respectively.

Ruhaimy also disclosed plans to give the Kingdom’s international airports “corporate identity with independent financial status'.

He said the new plan would improve management of these airports.

“This will eventually help the state take a decision on privatization of these airports,” he said in a previous statement carried by Al Madinah Arabic daily.

He said the authorities are studying a proposal on setting up business cities within the Kingdom’s airports.

Crown Prince Sultan signed an SR902.91 million ($240.77 million) contract with Al Mabani Company earlier this year to develop and upgrade aviation facilities of Jeddah’s King Abdul Aziz International Airport as part of the expansion project.

“The contract covers expansion of the airport’s tarmac and runways in order to increase its annual capacity to 80 million passengers,” GACA said.

The work will also include construction of a new aircraft parking facility west of the Haj Terminal as well as modernization of ground lights systems and information technology infrastructure.

Under the project, 6.5 km-sq m area will be set aside for commercial projects, including hotels and company offices.

The new expansion project, estimated to cost SR18 billion ($4.8 billion), will enable the airport to receive large jumbo jets, including the A380s. The Jeddah airport expansion is significant as it represents the Kingdom’s main gateway to the holy cities.

The expansion involves the construction of two new terminals and renovation of the existing South Terminal, a new concourse with 25 gates, three connector buildings and an extensive upgrade of land-side and air-side infrastructure facilities.^^

Saudi Arabia has so far spend more than SR60 billion on airports.

has anyone been to Jeddah airport lately? Did they start building the new terminals?

sorry i don't know about north terminal!!!

I went to Jeddah airport, but it was in december 2006, it was well good, quite dry place near the airport!

Can someone explain what is this airport which is claimed to be in Jeddah?

http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=portal&id=462&Itemid=10

Can someone explain what is this airport which is claimed to be in Jeddah?

http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=portal&id=462&Itemid=10

WOW!! That's amazing!

Most likely its just a render by ONE of the many applicants for the project.

Can someone explain what is this airport which is claimed to be in Jeddah?

http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=portal&id=462&Itemid=10

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=509342

لأمير سلطان يبرم عقد إدارة الإنشاء والإشراف لمشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة

بقيمة 256 مليون ريال ومدته 5 سنوات


الرياض: «الشرق الاوسط»
أبرم الأمير سلطان بن عبد العزيز ولي العهد نائب رئيس مجلس الوزراء وزير الدفاع والطيران والمفتش العام رئيس مجلس إدارة الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني في مكتبه بوزارة الدفاع والطيران مساء أمس، عقد إدارة الإنشاء والإشراف لمشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة وذلك مع شركة دار الهندسة (شاعر ومشاركوه) بقيمة 256 مليون ريال ومدته خمس سنوات. ووقع العقد عن دار الهندسة الدكتور المهندس كمال الشاعر رئيس مجلس إدارة الشركة.

ويعد عقد إدارة الإنشاء والإشراف لمشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي أحد أهم عقود المشروع التطويري العملاق الذي يشهده المطار بوصفه بوابة رئيسية للحرمين الشريفين وليصبح بإذن الله تعالى مطاراً محوريا ونقطة توزيع للمسافرين لترتفع طاقته الاستيعابية لنحو 30 مليون مسافر سنوياً في مرحلته الأولى لتصل في المراحل القادمة إلى 80 مليون مسافر، بالإضافة لاستيعابه للطائرات الضخمة الإيرباص (380 A ) فيما سيمكن مشروع المطار من تقديم أعلى مستويات الخدمة للمسافرين ويحقق المرونة اللازمة للحركة الجوية حيث يتم تنفيذه وفقاً لأحدث التقنيات والمواصفات العالمية.

وباكتمال مشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي سيعمل المطار وفق أسس تجارية بما يوفره من فرص استثمارية ضخمة للمستثمرين.

كما سيتم إنشاء قرية للشحن الجوي بطاقة استيعابية تبلغ 3 ملايين طن من الشحنات سنوياً، ومواقف للسيارات تستوعب 25 ألف سيارة في حين سيربط المطار بكل من مدينة مكة المكرمة والمدينة المنورة بقطارات سريعة الأمر الذي سيحقق راحة كبيرة للحجاج والمعتمرين والزوار فضلا عن ذلك سيتم ربط المطار بوسط مدينة جدة بقطارات خفيفة.

حضر مراسم توقيع العقد الأمير فهد بن عبد الله بن محمد مساعد وزير الدفاع والطيران والمفتش العام لشؤون الطيران المدني نائب رئيس مجلس إدارة الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني والسكرتير الخاص لولي العهد محمد بن سالم المري ورئيس الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني المهندس عبد الله بن محمد نور رحيمي.

الاربعـاء 11 ذو القعـدة 1428 هـ 21 نوفمبر 2007 العدد 10585

oh Dar Al Handsa involved!!(the same engineer of Abraj al bait) great news wallh.

:o 5 yearsssss......it's too long!!

oh Dar Al Handsa involved!!(the same engineer of Abraj al bait) great news wallh.

take it as a rule "If Saudi Binladin Group is involved, Then Dar Al-Handasa is the consultant" unless if the owner/government choosed another one and forced SBG to work with it.

First Phase of north hajj terminal was completed,bin ladin group working 7 month and already finished,i saw it in newspaper very modern internal design the hall now is bigger three times!

^^ This group works fast really and gets most of the projects. No other firms challange it? I really wonder.

Is it logic that a country has one construction group without any challange by any other companies? :nuts: any ideas?

where Saudi oger?

^^ I do not know what happened to Saudi Oger or Al-Saif!!

They never get huge projects anymore like complete new town or skycrapers and so on.

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^^deleted these part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=) to make youtube movies work in forum.

thanks for posting the video Riyadhi..

The design is pretty impressive and overall the plan is ambitious...but somehow, maybe because it is still the Jeddah airport, I don't see them pulling it all off. Maybe they'll have all the things they should in terms of buildings, etc but the service will still suck..and it'll be disorganized...

maybe they should have an organization like DNATA and have that run by foreigners with experience in running other key airports around the world...so the local authorities won't be stumped as to how to run such a big airport and complex airport...

also...a couple of other things....why only 3 runways? they should have at least 1 or 2 more...3 runways for 80 million seems too little..but on the bright side..they have enough space to make another one if needed (I think)...

and...did they mention how passengers will go from one of those terminals to another? I don't think i saw that in the video....I'm assuming they'll have some sort of LRT or something....any know anything about that?

and...did they mention how passengers will go from one of those terminals to another? I don't think i saw that in the video....I'm assuming they'll have some sort of LRT or something....any know anything about that?There was no mean of transportation between terminals, at least when I was there last time. The guy in the reception had a stupid face when I asked him about that.

and...did they mention how passengers will go from one of those terminals to another?
yes they did
watch at 5:50
anyway خذ وخل

^^ i did again...what exactly are they saying other than the whole "one-roof" thing which doesn't help when the airport is this big/long...you need a people-moving system...like a train service or something. any mention of that?

^^ yeah, they mentioned in Arabic that there will be a train to connect terminals

I agree with gohorns, the main problem is not in the buildings, it's in the people who work there; mainly Saudi Airlines personnel!

^^ who aren't willing to help in anyway :ohno:

^^ maybe they should get those guys who do the public lashings and get them to lash the lazy and arrogant staff at the airports that decide to have a little chat with another staff or leaves on a 15 minute coffee break when there are 60-70 people in line (at this counter) waiting for 3 hours to get through...

maybe that'll get them to straighten up :D

after posting this I had an even better idea...how about letting the people who were made to wait unreasonably long times (let's say 3 hours) lash the customs guy? hehe...how I'd love to crack a whip and make that smirk disappear from those people's faces...just one should do it.. :)

^^ :lol::lol::lol::lol:

Overall the design is not bad and they have expansion flexibility in the future.
Are they going to have 3 terminals as shown in the clip and we will not have the current Northern and Southern terminals?

^^ yes i hope so for god's sake..

I came to Jeddah from Abu Dhabi last night on an Etihad Airwasy flight. There was some renovation work going on in the terminal building being carried out by Saudi Bin Laden group. There were charts and pics hanging all over the terminal showing what they were carrying out. Basically, what i saw was that they have added new departure gates and are also going to renovate the check-in lounge. I think it's a temperory solution.

btw.....wasn't this vid posted some months back too?

hey guyz,
My name is bilal.I m from jeddah and i m new here.Hope u guyz will help me.

Are they going to built a new airport or are they expanding the current airport???????!!!!. If so can anyone of u post some pics.

welcome bro to the saudi forum :banana::);)

Thanks bro.

توقيع عقد أعمال التصميم والخدمات الهندسية للمرحلة الأولى لمشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي



جدة - واس:
برعاية نائب خادم الحرمين الشريفين صاحب السمو الملكي الأمير سلطان بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود رئيس مجلس إدارة الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني جرت أمس في جدة مراسم توقيع عقد أعمال التصميم والخدمات الهندسية للمرحلة الأولى من مشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي مع شركة مطارات باريس للهندسة بمبلغ "514.90" مليون ريال.
وقد وقع العقد عن الجانب السعودي معالي رئيس الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني المهندس عبدالله بن محمد نور رحيمي فيما وقعه عن الشركة رئيس مجلس إدارتها المدير التنفيذي لمجموعة مطارات باريس بيار غراف.

ويتضمن العقد الذي تمتد فترة تنفيذه 14شهراً إعداد التصاميم التفصيلية والخدمات الهندسية لمجمع صالات السفر الجديد والذي سيحل محل كل من الصالة الجنوبية والشمالية ويتيح لجميع شركات الطيران بما فيها الخطوط السعودية العمل سوياً وتشمل 42بوابة سفر تربط المجمع ب 74جسراً تخدم طائرات من مختلف الأحجام بما فيها الطائرات العملاقة وكذلك برج مراقبة جديد مزود بأحدث الأنظمة الملاحية والمخطط العام لقرية الشحن الجوي بطاقة استيعابية تبلغ 3ملايين طن سنوياً، ومواقف سيارات تستوعب 25000سيارة بالإضافة إلى ساحات وقوف للطائرات والممرات الجديدة.

كما تتضمن المرحلة الأولى من العقد تصميم مجمع محطة القطار المتاخم لصالات السفر ومواقف السيارات المتعددة الأدوار والمخطط العام لمرافق الصيانة وتصميم الطرق المؤدية إلى مجمع صالات السفر الجديدة وشبكة الطرق الداخلية وساحات وقوف الطائرات والممرات الجوية وكذلك المرافق الاستثمارية والتجارية وتصميم شبكة المرافق المساندة الأخرى لتأمين متطلبات تشغيل المرحلة الأولى.

وقال المهندس عبدالله إن اهتمام أولي الأمر بمنظومة الطيران المدني في المملكة بشكل عام وبمطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي بشكل خاص باعتباره بوابة رئيسة للحرمين الشريفين يجسد قناعة ولاة الأمر بالدور الذي يمكن لهذا المطار أن يؤديه في دعم البنية الاقتصادية لمنطقة مكة المكرمة. وأوضح أن هذا العقد من أهم عقود مشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي، إذ يمثل خطوة أساسية من خطوات المرحلة الأولى للمشروع والتي سيتم افتتاحها في عام 2012م وبموجبها ستصبح طاقة المطار الاستيعابية 30مليون مسافر.

وبين أن العقد يأتي بعد استكمال دراسة المخطط العام للمطار والتي انطوت على ثلاث مراحل وتم تنفيذ تلك الدراسة من قبل الشركة الهولندية للمطارات ناسو NACO وتشمل رؤية مستقبلية حتى عام 2035م ثم تلتها خطوة أخرى تم إنجازها تمثلت في البدء بتنفيذ المرحلة الأولى من المشروع والتي بموجبها سيتم التشغيل التجاري للمطار في عام 2012م، حيث سبق وأن تمت ترسية عقد المدير الإنشائي للمشروع على شركة دار الهندسة للقيام بخدمات الإدارة والإشراف وبموجب هذا العقد شرعت الشركة في إعداد عقود إنشاء المرحلة الأولى. وأكد المهندس رحيمي أن عقد المدير الإنشائي سيشرع في إصدار العقود اللازمة للمرحلة الأولى بشكل متتال مع بدء أعمال التصميم من قبل الشركة الفرنسية التي تم التوقيع معها بحيث تتماشى مع تقدم أعمال التصميم وفقاً للطريقة المتسارعة التي تبدأ بمجمع صالات السفر الجديد. وأوضح إن هدفنا من المشروع هو أن يصبح مطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي مطاراً محورياً يربط الشرق بالغرب ونقطة توزيع للمسافرين كما هو الحال بالنسبة للمطارات الكبيرة الناجحة بحيث يقوم بدور تكاملي مع مطارات المملكة الأخرى بشكل خاص ومطارات المنطقة بشكل عام، ملبياً احتياجات الجيل الجديد من الطائرات العملاقة وقابلاً للتوسعات المستقبلية بسهولة ويسر. وأشار إلى أن مشروع تطوير المطار راعى تأمين مساحات كافية لمقدمي الخدمات التي تكفل راحة المسافرين مع زيادة معدلات الجانب الاستثماري والتجاري بهدف تحقيق الاكتفاء الذاتي بما سيحققه من إيراداته. حضر مراسم توقيع العقد مدير عام مطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي المهندس مازن خاشقجي ومدير مشروع تطوير المطار المهندس عدنان زهيري، ومساعد مدير مشروع تطوير المطار المهندس سمير عشقي والمدير التنفيذي لمجموعة مطارات باريس الهندسية الان جين لا باجوليك والقنصل العام لجمهورية فرنسا في جدة عيسى مارو.

المصدر : جريدة الرياض
الأربعاء 20 رجب 1429هـ -23 يوليو2008م - العدد 14639

^^^^^ this news is not here!!!!
what you talking about is the first stage of Jeddah's new airport.....and this thread here is about the emergency expansion project which is started two years ago and it's about to finish (in Aug this year Insha'a Allah)
just to clear this project for many...
there is two major project in Jeddah's Airport..
1-Emergency expansion in the existing terminals (north+south terminal):
and it's 80% finished (fully in August 2008).
2-the major project (which is they signed yesterday):
to build new Terminals as in the follow:

Pierre Graff, Chairman and CEO of Aéroports de Paris Group (Paris:ADP) (Pink Sheets:AEOPF) and his Royal Highness Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saoud Crown Prince, Deputy Premier and Minister of Defence and Aviation and Inspector General, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority of Civil Aviation sign today in Jeddah a Design Services contract of around 140 mUSD for the development of King Abdulaziz International Airport. This contract follows the architecture competition organized by the GACA (General Authority for Civil Aviation) and won by ADPI.

This represents another success for ADPI at this airport since it won, in 2006, a contract to carry out studies and provide technical support for the upgrading of the three existing terminals (the Hajj, South and North Terminals), as well as studies to develop aeronautical infrastructures.

This contract covers the design of new facilities, which are to be completed in a fast track approach. They will enable the KAIA platform to have a powerful hub with, ultimately, the capacity to handle 80 million passengers per annum by 2020. The project, estimated to cost several billions Saudi Riyals, comprises:

* a new terminal of almost 550,000 m2 capable of handling 30 million passengers per annum* (the first phase)
* 42 pier–served aircraft stands (including 2 dedicated to the A380) and 10 remote stands * (the first phase)
* an intermodal transport centre (railway station, MRT to Jeddah city, bus station) * (the first phase)
* a new control tower of about 130 metres in height
* new access roads
* new load centres and utilities networks
* several support facilities
* 360,000 m2 of car parks.

This represents a total surface area of approximately 900,000 m2.

ADPI is to undertake the entire design of these new facilities.

Beyond its technical and operational qualities, ADPI´s project was attractive to the Saudi authorities because of its architectural concept.

Symbolic design: The architectural design, now taken over by a team of ADPI´s architects led by Dominique Chavanne, employs the symbol of a crescent moon associated with Saudi culture. The materials chosen – mega structure made of steel, copper coloured aluminium roofing, glass, granite and marble- combine modernity with tradition.

Lofty ambitions for environmental performance

GACA´s ambition is that the KAIA airport becomes an emblem for sustainable growth and development in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.

In order to ensure LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, the innovations proposed by ADPI aim at optimising the energy costs of the building, reducing water consumption and using recycled materials. The environmental quality of the project is present throughout the passenger´s circuit within the airport, its garden and green roof tops.

Photovoltaic panels integrated into the solar protection systems and exclusive use of recycled water for garden irrigation, as well as natural lighting for 75 % of the premises, are just some of the measures recommended.

The cladding of the facades in aluminium is particularly suited to the humid climate loaded with sea salt.

To date, no airport of this size has been awarded LEED certification. The project to develop KAIA will be an international benchmark in the air transport sector.

For Alain Le Pajolec, CEO of ADPI:

"This new success allows ADPI to consolidate its presence in the Middle East and to make Jeddah the foundation stone for development in a country that is currently experiencing a revival of its grand era of construction in the 1980s. ADPI teams of architects and engineers are demonstrating all their expertise to support Saudi authorities in developing the airport to create a powerful hub. They are also coordinating with other GACA consultants to develop the site as a whole, both airside and landside, to ultimately give rise to a veritable airport city."
and this is the render for the first phase of the new project:

http://www.graaam.com/vb/up/uploaded3/46825_01177315637.jpg

http://www.graaam.com/vb/up/uploaded3/46825_01177316180.jpg

http://www.graaam.com/vb/up/uploaded3/46825_01177316473.jpg

render for the whole project (including the three new termenals 80 millions Passenger annually by 2020)

http://www.nzzf.com/vb/images/uploads/16814_965947a3d2b62236e.jpg

http://www.nzzf.com/vb/images/uploads/16814_418347a3d2f97146a.jpg

http://www.nzzf.com/vb/images/uploads/16814_2638147a3d335bc557.jpg

http://www.nzzf.com/vb/images/uploads/16814_1004347a3d39a4b798.jpg

Hey excellent article and pictures rody...very informative stuff.. Really enjoyed reading about the new airport..thanks

Yeah that waz really cool.Thanks a lot rody.

FROM KHALEEJ TIMES

Jeddah airport set for major expansion
From Habib Shaikh

24 July 2008

JEDDAH - The King Abdul Aziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah is in for a big expansion, which is expected to be completed by 2012, according to Abdullah Al Ruhaimy, president of the General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA).



“The main objective of this airport development project is to make KAIA a central airport that would link the kingdom’s east with the west, and become a major hub for the distribution of passengers. It will also meet the requirements of the new generation of giant aircraft,” Al Ruhaimy said, and that the project includes a new state-of-the-art terminal with 74 jet bridges to receive both foreign and Saudi Arabia Airlines planes.

Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday after signing an SR514.9 million agreement with Aéroports de Paris Company of France to provide design and engineering services for the first phase of KAIA’s development project, Al Ruhaimy said the new airport terminal is designed to receive 30 million passengers annually.

Al Ruhaimy and Pierre Graff, chairman and CEO of ADP, signed the agreement. Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defence and aviation, was present during the ceremony.

An official GACA statement said that the new airport, which will replace the present Northern and Southern terminals, will receive aircraft of varying sizes, including 555-seat A380 planes. It will also have a new air control tower with advanced aviation systems and an air cargo village with an annual capacity of three million tonnes in addition to new tarmacs and aircraft parking facilities.

ADP will design a railway station, which is to be established adjacent to passenger lounges, a multi-storey car parking building, a general plan for maintenance facilities, roads leading to the new terminal, an internal road network, aircraft parking areas and new tarmacs, as well as investment and commercial areas.

In January 2007, Prince Sultan signed a SR902.91 million contract with Al Mabani Company to develop and upgrade aviation facilities of the Jeddah airport. The contract covered expansion of the airport’s tarmac and runways. The work also included the construction of a new aircraft parking facility west of the Haj Terminal as well as modernisation of ground lights systems and information technology infrastructure.

The development of KAIA comes ahead of a government plan to transform international airports into state-owned corporations. Prince Sultan bin Salman, secretary-general of the General Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (GCTA) and chairman of the Supervising Committee for the Development of King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, has confirmed the government’s plan.

“There are plans to transform civil aviation into different sectors to privatise them and open them for investment,” the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted Prince Sultan as saying. He said that the GACA was planning to carry out a number of projects, including airport cities, and providing more areas for exhibitions and other services. “We in GCTA see the need to develop and expand all airports in the kingdom to boost domestic tourism,” he added.

The Jeddah airport expansion is significant as it represents the kingdom’s main gateway for millions of foreign pilgrims.

Last year, chaotic conditions were witnessed at the KAIA when Eid holiday rush and returning Umrah passenger traffic combined to exacerbate the situation. So much so that two women passengers had reportedly died at the airport. Of the two, one was pregnant, and unfortunately her baby too died. Moreover, two passengers allegedly collapsed at the terminal as they waited in the huge lines of people trying to enter the terminal and check in for their flights.

your welcome guys...and many thanks thefreestyler for the extra informations

Deal for new Jeddah airport signed

P.K. Abdul Ghafour | Arab News

Crown Prince Sultan with top officials of the General Authority for Civil Aviation and Aéroports de Paris (ADP) after the signing of an agreement for the development of King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah on Tuesday. (SPA)

JEDDAH: King Abdul Aziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah will have a new state-of-the-art terminal with 74 jet bridges to receive both foreign and Saudia planes, Abdullah Ruhaimy, president of the General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA), announced yesterday.

Speaking to reporters after signing an agreement with Aéroports de Paris Company of France to provide design and engineering services for the first phase of KAIA’s development project, Ruhaimy said the new airport terminal is designed to receive 30 million passengers annually and would be ready by 2012.

Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, witnessed the signing of the agreement, which is valued at SR514.9 million ($137 million).

Ruhaimy and Pierre Graff, chairman and CEO of ADP, signed the pact for the new airport, which will replace the present Northern and Southern Terminals.

The new terminal, according to an official GACA statement, will receive aircraft of varying sizes, including 555-seat A380 planes. It will also have a new air control tower with advanced aviation systems and an air cargo village with an annual capacity of three million tons in addition to new tarmacs and aircraft parking facilities.

ADP will design a railway station, which is to be established adjacent to passenger lounges, a multistory car parking building, a general plan for maintenance facilities, roads leading to the new terminal, an internal road network, aircraft parking areas and new tarmacs, as well as investment and commercial areas.

“The main objective of this airport development project is to make KAIA a central airport that would link the Kingdom’s east with the west, and become a major hub for the distribution of passengers,” Ruhaimy said. “It will also meet the requirements of the new generation of giant aircraft,” he added.

In January 2007, Prince Sultan signed a SR902.91 million contract with Al-Mabani Company to develop and upgrade aviation facilities of the Jeddah airport. The contract covered expansion of the airport’s tarmac and runways. The work also included the construction of a new aircraft parking facility west of the Haj Terminal as well as modernization of ground lights systems and information technology infrastructure. Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal recently inspected expansion work being carried out at Jeddah airport.

The development of KAIA comes ahead of a government plan to transform international airports into state-owned corporations. Prince Sultan bin Salman, secretary-general of the General Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (GCTA) and chairman of the Supervising Committee for the Development of King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, has confirmed the government’s plan.

“There are plans to transform civil aviation into different sectors to privatize them and open them for investment,” the Saudi Press Agency quoted Prince Sultan as saying. He said the GACA was planning to carry out a number of projects, including airport cities, and providing more areas for exhibitions and other services. “We in GCTA see the need to develop and expand all airports in the Kingdom to boost domestic tourism,” he added.

^^^^^ this news is not here!!!!
what you talking about is the first stage of Jeddah's new airport.....and this thread here is about the emergency expansion project which is started two years ago and it's about to finish (in Aug this year Insha'a Allah)

it is the same :bash:

Please read it again carefully and also take a look to page 5 u will find a movie of the new airport so my article was in the right thread :banana:

yeah i knw

it is the same :bash:

Please read it again carefully and also take a look to page 5 u will find a movie of the new airport so my article was in the right thread :banana:

yeah I saw it.. :bash:
but I thought there is another thread for the new airport project beside the one here....
sorry again dude:)

:naughty::okay: it is ok dear :lol:

I don't know about the temporary expansion being 80% done Rody. Last time I heard the airport infrastructure work being done was delayed for months as the RSAF made a stink about the construction works' impact on their base. They only started in November!

Im talking about the south terminal...which is around 4 Km away from RSAF,and it's already open for the domestic flights,when Pr Khaled alfaisal opened it last week.and I saw it when I came to Jeddah 10 days ago. if you checked google earth you can see the new building at the north side of the south terminal (the new images in google earth are from Feb 2008)

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/979/jnjhu3.th.png (http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jnjhu3.png)

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6158/dfrrtry9.th.jpg (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dfrrtry9.jpg)

Hi Rody,
I didn't know the temporary building was inaugurated, and I am surprised that it is in use. I can only assume that they're bussing people to the plane, as like I said earlier al-Mabani is running late with the infrastructure work. The paving last time I heard was very far from being finished (they were still working on the west apron of the hajj terminal, let alone the new apron for the south terminal).

This is how the temporary terminal is supposed to look when complete:

http://www.adp-i.com/english/projets/popup/img%202005-2007/Jeddah%20king%20abdulaziz/nord%20et%20sud/jeddah%20nord.jpg
render from ADPi site

I was surprised too HiJazzey...
but look at this:
Thursday 24/July /2008
لتقى مديري جمعية المتقاعدين بمكة وجدة
الفيصل يتفقد الصالة الجنوبية بمطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي
جدة: عبدالله الدوسي تصوير: أحمد طاحون

أكد أمير منطقة مكة المكرمة الأمير خالد الفيصل بن عبدالعزيز خلال جولة تفقدية يوم أمس للصالة الجنوبية بمطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي بجدة ان هناك عملية تطوير شامل ومستمر لمختلف مرافق المطار ومدينة الحجاج الملحقة بالمطار من مختلف الجهات ذات العلاقة والجهات العاملة بالمطار وذلك خلال زيارة تفقدية لسير أعمال مشروع مؤكدا ان هناك متابعة دائمة لعموم المشاريع في المنطقة وان جهاز الأمارة سينشئ إدارة جديدة للتنمية سيوكل لها متابعة جميع المشاريع في منطقة مكة المكرمة. وبين الفيصل ان هناك مخططاً كبيراً وحديثاً لمدينة جدة يحمل في طياته الكثير من التطور سيتم الإعلان عنه من خلال أمانة محافظة جدة خلال الفترة القادمة.
هذا واطلع أمير مكة على مختلف التوسعات والتحسينات في الصالة الجنوبية يرافقه عدد من المسؤلين اطلع خلالها على الصالات الجديدة التي قامت الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني بإنشائها لتطوير وتوسيع صالات المطار الجنوبية. وشملت الزيارة الصالة الجنوبية في المطار والتي تم تطويرها وتأهيلها وذلك بعد ان انتهت الاعمال الإنشائية والتنفيذية فيها حيث من المتوقع تشغيلها خلال الايام القليلة المقبلة.
وكانت الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني قد كشفت عن مشروع تحسين وتطوير مطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي التي استمرت أكثر من 18 شهرا حيث اشتمل المشروع اجراء تحسينات لصالات الحجاج لتقديم افضل الخدمات لضيوف الرحمن.وإضافة اكثر من 50 في المائة من التحسينات الجديدة التي تمت اضافتها في الصالة وذلك بعد ان تمت اضافة منطقة خاصة بقدوم ومغادرة المسافرين وتم الانتهاء من تركيب مسارات العفش ونقاط التفتيش والكاونترات واكثر من ثمانية مصاعد في المنطقة الجديدة مع تجهيز اربعة مسارات للحافلات فمسارات العفش في الصالتين المحلية والدولية بقدرة استيعابية تصل الى 2400 قطعة عفش واجمالي المساحة المضافة بلغت 16 الف متر مربع اضيفت للصالة القديمة كما ستقام 65 كاونترا في الجانبين المحلي والدولي، أما في صالة المغادرة فعززت مبيعات التذاكر بـ18كاونترا مع منطقة استراحة ومكاتب لشركات الطيران المحلية سواء السعودية او سما او ناس اضافة الى ازالة بعض السيور القديمة وتحديث المكاتب والمحلات التجارية والبنوك ومكاتب التأجير والفنادق مع تغيير الاسقف والارضيات كاملة في الدور الارضي. واشتملت الاعمال في الصالة الجنوبية على إنشاء مبنى شمالي من دورين. ويبلغ اجمالي مساحة المبنى الجديد 16100 متر مربع.:)
source:
http://www.alnadwah.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008071014743&display=1

I never been on this thread but I guess I wrong about having the idea that there are no airports in Mecca. This one ain't big at all.

This is in Jeddah, not Mecca.

Mecca doesn't have an airport (although there is an airstrip in Mina that's used for medivac etc...)

Khaleej Times - 03/08/2008

(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) The Saudi Arabian General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) has so far signed contracts worth more than SR16 billion to develop Jeddah's King Abdul Aziz International Airport (KAIA), according to Abdullah Al Ruhaimy, president of GACA.

Al Ruhaimy said that contracts for the remaining works would be signed on a priority basis. He added that work on the new airport project would start early next year following a fast-track method. The project's first phase, designed to accommodate 30 million passengers, would be ready by 2012.

"Once the third and final phase of the project is completed in 2035, the airport will be able to handle 80 million passengers annually," the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted him as saying here on Wednesday.

Al Ruhaimy made the comment while making a presentation about the airport development project to Makkah Governor Prince Khaled Al-Faisal. He briefed the governor on the works and measures already completed to implement the project.

GACA signed an agreement last week with A鲯ports de Paris Company of France to provide design and engineering services for the first phase of KAIA's development project.

The agreement was valued at SR514.9 million.

"A study on the general airport plan has already been completed by the Netherlands Airport Consultants (NACO)," Al Ruhaimy said. The new airport will have state-of-the-art runways, aircraft parking facilities and air control towers, and will be able to receive new generation aircraft such as A380s.

He said Al Mabani Company won a SR902.91 million contract last year to develop and upgrade the airport's aviation facilities. The contract covered expansion of the airport's tarmac and runways.

12/10/2008
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So they have changed the design completely? I am disappointed with this design because the previous one was much more original.

And mod y do we have two threads on Jeddah Airport merge them please.:cheers:

^^ Absolutely!! Also what made the old design even better was that it could be expanded on. The whole thing was going to be built in 3 phases and IF it was necessary a set of terminals could be added at the end...and then connected to the rest...

This design is restrictive...and unoriginal...

^^^ come on guys, this is an airport, practicality and safety and comfort are way more important than a good-looking exterior.

gohorns,

I don't know why you're so against this project. The design is really good actually. They just refined the design by elongating the "X" into a double sided "Y". This was likely done to improve airside traffic flow. In the original design there is a 120 degree turn to the exit in the middle of the V section, which is a bit challenging for the pilots. So elongating the design turns it into a 90 degree turn which is easier to navigate. As for it being un-original, I disagree. The basic planform is similar to other airports, which is expected as airport design has evolved. This is simply the most efficient layout. But it is it's own design. It will be distinctive IMO. for example, just because most towers have the same basic concrete core layout doesn't mean each can't be unique. And it is expandable, there will still build satellites north of the main building if extra capacity is needed (which let's be honest is a while away).

Work on new terminals at Jeddah airport next month

JEDDAH - The General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA)General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) has set the month of Muharram, which begins on Dec. 29, as the date for laying the foundations of new terminals at the King Abdul Aziz International Airport here. Eng. Abdullah Ruheimi, president of the GACA, said the terminals would include 42 departure gates with 74 connecting gangways serving a range of aircraft types. Aircraft hangars and a new control tower are also planned, plus an aircraft loading area capable of handling three million tons per year, and car parking space for 25,000 vehicles.

The first stage of construction also includes the railway station zone, maintenance facility areas, road networks and aircraft corridors.

[QUOTE=Rody69;23060934]
* an intermodal transport centre (railway station, MRT to Jeddah city, bus station) * (the first phase)
* a new control tower of about 130 metres in height

guyz did u know the worlds tallest control tower is 132 metres height at suvarnabhumi airport,so dont u think this can b the tallest in the world and too DUBAI WORLD CENTRAL control tower is only 91 metres and will b the tallest control tower in the middle east:cheers:.i think there is somethng fishy goin on....^^^^

^^^^^ dude I saw the internal designs for the lounges,and it's really cooooooool.
believe me,it's gonna be one of the best in the world!!!

can u post some pics.........plzzzzzz

^^^ I saw the renders with someone who works in the project,I'll try to ask him to scan it for me.and as I said before,the project presents the solar system.moon,sun and earth,and the interiors carries that space futuristic touches as if you're in huge space ship!!

^^^ I saw the renders with someone who works in the project,I'll try to ask him to scan it for me.and as I said before,the project presents the solar system.moon,sun and earth,and the interiors carries that space futuristic touches as if you're in huge space ship!!

wooooooooooooooooooow:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:...i cant believ wht u r saying.....and i am just witing for the renders.

wooooooooooooooooooow:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:...i cant believ wht u r saying.....and i am just witing for the renders.

I have some nice renderings, but I do not know how to upload them here.

If you can help me doing so, I will be glad to share some nice rendered terminal.

^^
to upload picture follow this instruction

go to http://imageshack.us/
click on browse
select picture file from your computer and press open.
now click on host it
wait till uploading finish then a new page will appear and has different kind of links for same picture,copy the Thumbnail for forums (1)
finally post that link into post screen.


share share share :banana:

I will be glad to share some nice rendered terminal.
I think we'll be even happier :lol:

^^
to upload picture follow this instruction

go to http://imageshack.us/
click on browse
select picture file from your computer and press open.
now click on host it
wait till uploading finish then a new page will appear and has different kind of links for same picture,copy the Thumbnail for forums (1)
finally post that link into post screen.


share share share :banana:

Thanks for the tips, here are some of what I could do, please remember that internet connections are very bad in my area these days, so this is what I could do:

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7610/airport1zh6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport1zh6.jpg)

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/4198/airport2zs6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport2zs6.jpg)

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2546/airport4xz9.th.jpg (http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport4xz9.jpg)

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4423/airport5lh2.th.jpg (http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport5lh2.jpg)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5462/airport6ih3.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport6ih3.jpg)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6816/airport7eh1.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport7eh1.jpg)

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4393/airport8gs7.th.jpg (http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport8gs7.jpg)

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/8364/airport9bu3.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport9bu3.jpg)

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5548/airport10og2.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport10og2.jpg)

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/7567/airport11uk8.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport11uk8.jpg)

ENJOY!

Thanks for the tips, here are some of what I could do, please remember that internet connections are very bad in my area these days, so this is what I could do:

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7610/airport1zh6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport1zh6.jpg)

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/4198/airport2zs6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport2zs6.jpg)

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2546/airport4xz9.th.jpg (http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport4xz9.jpg)

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4423/airport5lh2.th.jpg (http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport5lh2.jpg)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5462/airport6ih3.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport6ih3.jpg)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6816/airport7eh1.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport7eh1.jpg)

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http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5548/airport10og2.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport10og2.jpg)

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/7567/airport11uk8.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport11uk8.jpg)

ENJOY!

respect man!!!
well done:banana::banana:

respect man!!!
well done:banana::banana:

I will try to load a higher resolution pictures when internet connection get better

^^^ I saw the renders with someone who works in the project,I'll try to ask him to scan it for me.and as I said before,the project presents the solar system.moon,sun and earth,and the interiors carries that space futuristic touches as if you're in huge space ship!!

about the solar system
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7610/airport1zh6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport1zh6.jpg)
right to lift:the moon (terminal1/2012),the sun (terminal2/2017),earth (terminal3/2023)

the interiors actually is the best part for me it's really like a giant spaceship:nuts:



http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5462/airport6ih3.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport6ih3.jpg)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6816/airport7eh1.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport7eh1.jpg)

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4393/airport8gs7.th.jpg (http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport8gs7.jpg)

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/8364/airport9bu3.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport9bu3.jpg)



ENJOY!

about the solar system
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7610/airport1zh6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport1zh6.jpg)
right to lift:the moon (terminal1/2012),the sun (terminal2/2017),earth (terminal3/2023)

the interiors actually is the best part for me it's really like a giant spaceship:nuts:

cant understand about the solar system u r saying:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

about the solar system
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7610/airport1zh6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport1zh6.jpg)
right to lift:the moon (terminal1/2012),the sun (terminal2/2017),earth (terminal3/2023)

the interiors actually is the best part for me it's really like a giant spaceship:nuts:

sound like a "riven" game that i played long time ago on PC,i didn't get the point,but looks like a new idea and i like it.

cant understand about the solar system u r saying:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:
ok guys.you know that the airport project is consist three terminals..

the first one from the right (witch is terminal 1-going to finish 2012) it represents the moon in this project (the main design for the terminal,the interiors,the colors used....etc)
the second one from the right (witch is terminal 2-going to finish 2017) it represents the earth in this project (the main design for the terminal,the interiors,the colors used....etc)
the third one from the right (witch is terminal 3-going to finish 2022-2025) it represents the sun in this project (the main design for the terminal,the interiors,the colors used....etc)
I hope it helps now :)

ok guys.you know that the airport project is consist three terminals..

the first one from the right (witch is terminal 1-going to finish 2012) it represents the moon in this project (the main design for the terminal,the interiors,the colors used....etc)
the second one from the right (witch is terminal 2-going to finish 2017) it represents the earth in this project (the main design for the terminal,the interiors,the colors used....etc)
the third one from the right (witch is terminal 3-going to finish 2022-2025) it represents the sun in this project (the main design for the terminal,the interiors,the colors used....etc)
I hope it helps now :)

So what you are saying is that we will be traveling from the moon in 2012 then the earth and after that from the sun??

shouldn't they start from the earth first???

just kidding, I do not know about your Analysis but it is interesting one.

y do they take such a long time to complete.....2025 is too much:ohno:

y do they take such a long time to complete.....2025 is too much:ohno:

actually the target date is 2035 to finish all three phases, 10 years more than what you have stated to finish, that is if they start now.

make do3aa (سوي دعا)

I think this rendring should be posted because it reflects some good details about the exterior design.


http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6784/75850901tc1.th.jpg (http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=75850901tc1.jpg)

ENJOY

thanks man

hey rody 3 questions:
1-where is the location of the new terminal?
2-are the going to build a new royal terminal?
3-the first terminal they r going to build is for international or for saudi?

hey rody 3 questions:
1-where is the location of the new terminal?
2-are the going to build a new royal terminal?
3-the first terminal they r going to build is for international or for Saudi?
you're welcome my friend :)

1-where is the location of the new terminal?

the new terminals are going to be between the two runways 16R and 16C (between the first one from the right and the one in the middle, if you're looking to the three runways from the south ) and the first terminal gonna be 3.8Km from the airport road (to the south of the airport.

2-are the going to build a new royal terminal?

they already built a new royal terminal to the south from the old one.and it got open last July.and it's for the royal family members (class A if you know what I mean ;) ) plus the regions governor and the government official guests below vice presidents.
therefore,from now on the old "huge" royal terminal is for the king and the crown prince plus the presidents and vice presidents.
the other member of the royal family going to use either the normal terminals or the (VIP lounge) where the have to pay around $2500/year .
by the way any one can got the VIP lounges access "if you pay of course":lol:and it'll allow you to use the VIP lounges at any airport in Saudi Arabia.

3-the first terminal they r going to build is for international or for Saudi?

there is no more local Airlines terminal and international airlines terminals,all the airline are going to work together.(dont forget Saudi airlines is no more governmental company after 2011.
I hope that was helpful :)

thanks a lot man.....that was really helpfull:)


dont forget Saudi airlines is no more governmental company after 2011.
I hope that was helpful :)

y do u say so?

thanks a lot man.....that was really helpfull:)



y do u say so?

did u hear about Saudi airlines privatization??

read this:
http://www.ameinfo.com/163992.html

thanks a lot man.....that was really helpfull:)



y do u say so?

would you please find another logo (avatar) to your name (site ID)? what you have now is very offending.

did u hear about Saudi airlines privatization??

read this:
http://www.ameinfo.com/163992.html

i am happy about this news,because comparing to ETTIHAD airlines and EMIRATES airlines,saudi airlines is not good.....so do u know the name or the design of new airlines.

vAUczzaZTUY

at 1 minute time, in the video ^^ it says the new airport will be commercially driven, in the UK this has been a disaster where the airport authorities created situations where passengers had to wait long time, in the hope that they would spend money in the shops :ohno: hope this wont be the case in Jeddah

at 1 minute time, in the video ^^ it says the new airport will be commercially driven, in the UK this has been a disaster where the airport authorities created situations where passengers had to wait long time, in the hope that they would spend money in the shops :ohno: hope this wont be the case in Jeddah

r u talking about the hajj pilgrims waited in jeddah airport?

Renders :

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3083/com16901jeddahairportcm3.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3618/com16906jeddahairportpp7.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7185/com16907jeddahairportcg7.jpg

just wanna see this airport get build

Renders :

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3083/com16901jeddahairportcm3.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3618/com16906jeddahairportpp7.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7185/com16907jeddahairportcg7.jpg

just wanna see this airport get build

Is this a new design?

where did you get it from??

Renders :

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3083/com16901jeddahairportcm3.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3618/com16906jeddahairportpp7.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7185/com16907jeddahairportcg7.jpg

just wanna see this airport get build

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3083/com16901jeddahairportcm3.jpg
-the airport's master plan is the final design.
-the terminal design is the one before the final design (it didnt got approved "or published" because of the limited planes gate way number at each terminal)
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as you see guys there were three designs for the terminals:
-1st one:
http://www.graaam.com/vb/up/uploaded3/46825_01177315637.jpg
-2nd design:
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/3083/com16901jeddahairportcm3.jpg
-the approved design: (the renders penta_a
shared with us :) )

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7610/airport1zh6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport1zh6.jpg)

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/4198/airport2zs6.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport2zs6.jpg)

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2546/airport4xz9.th.jpg (http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport4xz9.jpg)

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4423/airport5lh2.th.jpg (http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport5lh2.jpg)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5462/airport6ih3.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport6ih3.jpg)

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6816/airport7eh1.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport7eh1.jpg)

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/4393/airport8gs7.th.jpg (http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport8gs7.jpg)

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/8364/airport9bu3.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport9bu3.jpg)

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5548/airport10og2.th.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=airport10og2.jpg)

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yep it's from the final interior designs

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3618/com16906jeddahairportpp7.jpg

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7185/com16907jeddahairportcg7.jpg

Just build the damn thing.....

WHEN THEY WILL START ,:ohno::ohno::ohno::ohno:

Easy people... they'll build it eventually. Just give them 60 or 70 years...

they already started working in some parts of the first phase
for example the runways up grade "for the A 380" (finished),Hajj terminals renew (80% finished),the water treatment station (finished).however, the work on the new terminal (terminal 1) is going to start after summer 2009 and is planned to finish by the end of 2012

Bids submitted for King Abdulaziz Airport earthworks contract


Nine local and international firms have submitted bids for an estimated SR375m ($100m) earthworks contract at King Abdulaziz International airport, in Jeddah.
The scope of the contract covers site preparation work for the expansion of the airport.

The firms include Saudi Binladin Group, Almabani General Contractors, Al-Harbi Trading & Contracting and Al-Muhaidib Contracting Company. Contractors from South Korea and China also submitted bids.

An award is expected to be made by 13 February at the latest. The project duration is expected to be 18-24 months.

The General Authority for Civil Aviation (Gaca) is the client.

In December 2007 Gaca has finalised plans to expand the kingdom's largest airport in three phases, concluding in 2035. The first phase of construction will raise capacity to 30 million passengers a year from 15 million.

A good news :banana::banana: and bad news :ohno::ohno:

GACA approves King Abdulaziz airport design changes

Jeddah terminal alterations will boost capacity but could delay completion by three years.

Any meed subscribers...?????

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNG9FDCRSh1RmO8KI5cRA5U2eCwBAA&cid=0&ei=PF2rSZDHLJWi0QXK1_KmAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meed.com%2Fnews%2F2009%2F03%2Fgaca_approves_king_abdulaziz_airport_design_changes.html

three years for the whole project...not the first phase

three years for the whole project...not the first phase

OOOOH GOD, this is the fifth design change since 2001.:ohno:

I think they meant 3 years added to the original designated date (2012 + 3 = 2015):ohno:

If some one could post what exactly the report is talking about???

it's three years over the 15 years,and we have three phases,so it's like 1 year per phase..

I don't get it.... they can build an entire city (KAEC) in 15 years and they take the same amount of time to build one airport? It makes no sense...

A small information :

Design of phase 1 to be completed by May 2009

OK, here is what I got in my e-mail today:


الموافقة على تعديلات تصميم صالة الركاب الجديدة بمطار الملك عبد العزيز بجدة والسعة الاستيعابية ترتفع إلى 30 مليون راكب/العام
وافق كل من الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني السعودية وشركة "إيروبورتس دي باريس" الفرنسية على التعديلات المدخلة على تصميم صالة الركاب الجديدة بمطار الملك عبد العزيز بجدة لترتفع بذلك مساحة المبنى الجديد إلى أكثر من 600 ألف متر مربع بدلا عن 375 ألف متر مربع أي زيادة 60% عن المساحة المقررة في السابق.

ووفقا لنشرة "ميد"، يتيح التعديل في تصميم المبنى إلى استيعاب 30 مليون راكب في العام بدلا من 25 مليون راكب/العام في التصميم الأصلي إلا أن التعديل سيؤدي إلى تأخير تنفيذ المشروع بمقدار ثلاث سنوات حسب مصادر قريبة من المشروع لينتهي العمل في عام 2013 او 2014 بدلا منا التاريخ الأصلي وهو عام 2011.

وتعمل هيئة الطيران المدني السعودية ومدير المشروع، شركة دار الهندسة اللبنانية، على إعداد قائمة الشركات التي يتعين عليها تقديم عروضها لحزم الإنشاءات الرئيسية للمشروع في حين أن أكثر من 20 مناقصة سيتم طرحها في غضون 12 شهرا المقبلة تتعلق بالمشروع علما أن شركة "إيروبورتس دي باريس" الفرنسية تعمل كاستشاري معماري للمشروع



GOOGLE translation:
Approval of amendments to the design of new passenger terminal at King Abdul Aziz in Jeddah and the absorptive capacity would rise to 30 million passengers / year
Approved by the General Authority for Civil Aviation and the Saudi company, "Iieropurts de Paris, the French" the amendments to the design of new passenger terminal at King Abdul Aziz in Jeddah, bringing the size of the new building to more than 600 thousand square meters instead of 375 thousand square meters, an increase of 60% assessments of the area in the past.

According to a "Med", the amendment allows the design of the building to accommodate 30 million passengers a year rather than 25 million passengers / year in the original design, however, that the amendment would delay implementation of the project by three years, according to sources close to the project to be completed in 2013 or 2014 instead of us the original date is 2011.

The Civil Aviation Authority, Saudi Arabia, the project manager, engineering company House of Lebanon, to prepare a list of companies which must submit their offers to pack the construction of the project, while more than 20 tenders will be put up within the next 12 months related to the project note that the company "Iieropurts de Paris" French worked as consultant architect for the project

Salam
first post!

I think Jiddah airport needs a big renovation espesically the Saudi Airlines terminal, it's an embaresment compared to the other Khaleej countries. The terminal didn't even have televisions to check flight schedule it had this outdated flicking thing! Hamdulilah, this is good news.

I found this rendering with some information on ADPI website, all information are coded for flash player and could not grab the presentation file but I took this screen shot that show control tower is going to be 137m (one of the highest world wide).
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/2369/kaiatower.th.jpg (http://img256.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kaiatower.jpg)

Tower design concept:
"the bright copper colors of the tower shaft complement those found in terminal, conceptually, the design reflects the different lunar stages, and the roof represents the movement of sand dunes."

Link to adpi:
http://adpi.devolia.fr/index_en.html

superb,

So if ADPI is planning it will be design which is similar to Hong Kong and Beijing's new terminal. Their site is on flash so i cant copy the master plane here.

I've been through this airport for like seven, eight times now. It is one of the worst airports I've ever been to. The airport itself isn't the only thing u need to modernize. Your staff needs a serious training immediately.

What I really hate are the staff who stick their body upon us so that we let them carry our luggage. What is annoying more is that they don't have a mean of communication skills and they complain if we didn't give them much. They are pushy and demanding.

If u were an Emirati, they would stick on u like superglue and if u complained about paying they say: Emirati nationals arent supposed to ask about the price. As if we have to accept being cheated.

Then u have the security who treat passengers as criminals and the help disk which doesnt help u at all.








loool ................. i know , we have over here in saudi one of the worst mangers u can get , sorry man on behalf of the whole saudi's , but now the king ordered to bulit a new one its runed by the germens tell we fix our self up lool , but the thing is we have one of the largest airport in the world (kkIA in riyadh it is sooo beutiful) and (KFIA in dammam ) but now dubai has the biggest airport in the world saudi is slowing up before saudi airline use to be the best but now its the worst :bash: makkah use to be the richest state now its full of africans , yallah allah ya3ini

and agin iam really sorry for our bad hospitality :)

Word has gone out to all involved that work must be accelerated. Five years is a long time to wait for the kingdom's showpiece airport.

Jeddah's infrastructure has failed to match the city's status as Saudi Arabia's transport hub for some time.

Few parts of its transport infrastructure better show the lack of investment than King Abdulaziz International airport. The airport's tatty facilities and gloomy arrivals halls do not create a good first impression of the kingdom for businesspeople, tourists or pilgrims.

While the current terminals are undergoing a substantial refit, the site still lacks the architectural swagger befitting its status.

But all this is changing. Aeroports de Paris has designed a new terminal of back-to-back crescents with capacity for 30 million passengers. Two subsequent phases could take the capacity to 80 million a year, making Jeddah the second-largest airport in the region.

However, the AdP design is radically larger and more ambitious than originally planned. This has pushed the anticipated completion date back to 2014 from 2011.

Five years is a frustratingly long time to wait for the kingdom's new showpiece airport to be finished. The word has gone out to all involved on the project that tendering and work must be accelerated.

Almabani General Contractors will begin earthworks across the vast site within days, and a host of key contracts will follow in the coming weeks. Bidding could be under way on construction of the new terminal building itself by the end of the year.

At the same time, UK architect Foster & Partners has been appointed to design 'world-class' stations for the Haramain high-speed rail project between Mecca and Medina, which will stop in Jeddah and at the airport. The Transport Ministry has unveiled a new transport masterplan for the city, including a SR21bn ($5.6bn) monorail.

It is a measure of the sorry state the airport complex has fallen into that one of Almabani's tasks will be to remove a landfill site from the grounds needed for the new terminal.

Source:
http://www.meed.com/commentary/2009/04/jeddah_airport_revamp_is_long_overdue.html

Tenders on major construction contracts brought forward, with bidding for foundations to start in May.

Source Subscriber-only Content:
http://www.meed.com/news/2009/04/riyadh_fasttracks_jeddah_airport_deals.html

Expectations of the establishment of contracts for major development and modernization of King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah, the international in the coming months
Expected to be the establishment of major contracts to develop and modernize the King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, western Saudi Arabia, in the coming months will be bidding on the new hall in May and then followed by a tender of construction works in the summer, the Bulletin reported, "Mid", quoting one of Sources close to the project.

The source said they had received instructions from the top to accelerate these projects as a vital project for the transport sector, adding that Saudi construction bids for the main hall of the passengers will be put up later this year rather than next year's theme originally by the General Authority for Civil Aviation.

The General Authority for Civil Aviation has established the main contract for the project's building contractor for the local public body to take over the payment of 500 million dollars against Tmhidat land excavations and the large site of the terminal building, which occupies an area of 600 thousand square meters.

In the meantime, prepare the General Authority of Civil Aviation to send brochures for the auction is held next major digging foundations, tunnels and others to come after the process of corporate presentations in May, which also followed by a tender of construction works.

According to the circular, will also be bidding removal systems in the new terminal in the current year and the construction of a transfer of passengers from one place to another within the terminal note that the design of the hall was by "Oerburts de Paris" (Aeroprts de Paris) The French Room, which occupies an area of 600 thousand square meters, which is larger than the original planned area in the past by 60% the amount of surface area 375 thousand square meters.

It is expected to contribute to the expansion of the new King Abdul Aziz airport in raising the absorptive capacity of the airport to 30 million passengers a year instead of 25 million passengers in the original plan drawn up and the magnitude of the project is not expected to be completed by 2013 or 2014 instead of the original date is 2011, as bulletin.

On the other hand, the General Authority of Civil Aviation the first new terminal in three phases in the expansion of the airport, which will raise the absorptive capacity to 80 million passengers by the year 2035, which would convert to Jeddah, the second largest airport in the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council noted that efforts are under way for the demolition of areas leased and occupied by commercial aircraft to move forward with the expansion of terminal space for the new project led by the Saudi Bin Laden Group and will be completed at the end of this year.

And on the same level, it is expected to complete the work of maintenance and modernization of passengers at two North and South of the airport operations, which is considered temporary until the opening of the new terminal that "Fraport" (Fraport) by the German operation, including modernization of the airport operations and training of personnel and activities on the airport grounds business, according to the bulletin.

Back to the drawing board
by ArabianBusiness.com staff writer
Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans for the development of King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah.

In 2007, ADPI, a design and planning firm, won a competition launched by the General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) to decide which design company would join Saudi Arabia in its ambition to develop its economic activity. The brief given by the GACA was on a grand scale - to submit the concept design of the development of Jeddah's mega hub terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA).
For some time ADPI's team of engineers and architects have been deeply involved in projects in the Gulf region and in particular at Saudi's main hub. Since 2006, the company has been carrying out studies and providing technical support for the upgrading of the three existing terminals at KAIA - the Hajj, South and North terminals - thus when the design competition for phase one of the new terminal was launched in July 2007, the company was already well known to GACA. The contract was signed a year later to a cost valued at around US$140 million.
The contract win will see ADPI develop itself as a major player in the Middle East's airport planning industry. The terminal will cover near to 600,000m2, which is larger than Hong Kong airport and Beijing's Terminal 3. Alain Le Pajolec, CEO of ADPI sees this project as being of particular significance to the organisation.
"Since 2006, we have been working on medium-sized projects at Jeddah's airport, this includes the symbolic Hajj terminal, but with this new terminal, ADPI is now developing an area amounting to 2,000,000m2. This contract gives ADPI a stronger presence in the Middle East in general, and in Saudi Arabia, more specifically via the King Abdulaziz International Airport."
The design of the new terminal has undergone some adjustments since the initial concept was submitted to the GACA's competition, particularly in the early stages. Felipe Starling, executive vice president for strategic planning and architecture at ADPI, explains that the project is continually evolving.
"With any project, requirements change slightly over time. In the case of the new terminal at KAIA, the size of the terminal has grown and along with it, the programme data required. The project comprises an intermodal facility, which includes a mono-rail and a railway system; at the time of the competition these elements had not been decided upon."
In fact it is the intensive use of railway, one of the most environmentally friendly modes of transport available to airports that is at the heart of the design concept.
"This project is set apart from anything we have worked on before because the client has asked us to go through environmental certification of the airport, following the LEED standard," explains Starling.
"This is a US standard for approving the value of a building, in this case the airport, in the field of sustainable development. To go through such a procedure for such a huge terminal will be the first time in the world that it will be applied to an airport of this size."
The project will be classically divided into different packages - the earthworks, the foundation works, the requirements for specific equipment, defining finishes and decoration, allowing 14 months for the full design to be delivered. This fast-track approach will see the terminal being complete and fully operational by 2012. But the company's executive vice president of planning is not fazed by time constraints.
"We have a good partnership with the client [GACA] and when you take into consideration the size and complexity of the project, decisions are made relatively quickly," admits Starling. "The opportunity for us is to coordinate and give a large coherence to the planning of the whole zone."
The zone will comprise a 30 million capacity passenger terminal, covering 450m2, which will allow for future extensions to cater up to 80 million passengers. An intermodal hub will include a high speed train railway station, local rail transport, buses and an internal automated people mover within the terminal.
It will also have a new control tower, which will reach more than 130m in height and house advanced aviation systems. Access and car park facilities will cover 360,000m2 and associated airside infrastructure and aprons for 46 pier-served aircraft stands will cater to a variety of aircraft, including three dedicated to the 555-seat Airbus A380.
But it is the diminished environmental impact of the new complex that is symbolic for the airport. "This iconic project will focus on two critical issues for Saudis, energy and water resources," reveals Starling.
"The terminal will house gardens and waterfalls. It will use lots of direct sunlight so the passenger can see and experience the impact of the airport working with the environment."
Materials chosen for the construction are copper, glass, granite and marble, to express, the design company says, "a sense of modernity inkeeping with local traditions." The roofing will be made of steel and house photovoltaic panels within the solar protection devices. Façade materials will take into account the local climate and recycled water will be used for the gardens.
Starling explains that the inspiration for the terminal's design has taken on a global influence. "Innovation is about having a good idea and knowing how to go further. All our designers travel a lot and take their ideas from around the world and develop them in their own way. Over time this development is set to continue."
Jeddah airport will grow to become an airport city. Shops, offices, conference centres, hotels and cultural areas will form the city and establish the link between KAIA and Jeddah. "Planning the airport city is part of our contract," Pajolec explains.
"This is the opportunity to apply a strategic planning approach for the entire airport, and not only the terminal on one side and the airport city on the other. The terminal is no longer separated by a no-man's land, but is a place with urban intensity."

thnx a lot penta for the great info.

Only three stands dedicated to A380? That's disappointing.

from Abhur exhibition:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/801/ka1.jpg
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1797/ka2.jpg
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3464/ka4.jpg
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7629/ka5.jpg

^^OK, So which design is the final?, this one: (as per ADPI website)
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4228/ka4d.th.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ka4d.jpg)

or this one:(as per Abhur show)

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1797/ka2.th.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ka2.jpg)

29/4/2009
did anyone notice the new terminal at the corner of northwest?

Full Size (http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3419/p1070876.jpg)
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3419/p1070876.jpg

^^ wow construction has progressed a lot more than I expected...awesome!!

29/4/2009
did anyone notice the new terminal at the corner of northwest?

Full Size (http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3419/p1070876.jpg)
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3419/p1070876.jpg

This is the new royal air crafts maintenance hangar.

^^ yep, and it's much nicer than the old one....

that explain why it's appeared suddenly,thanks for clarification!btw where the old one?

this is the old one:
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4858/27774644.png

^^ Rody69 you are fast man, how do you post a full size picture like that?, I have tried bu turns out to be thumbnail size only.

that explain why it's appeared suddenly,thanks for clarification!btw where the old one?

The old (present) one is between run way 34C and 34R at the end looking north.

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4607/kaia.jpg (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kaia.jpg)

^^ :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
just use the "Direct link to image" to have the full image size
by the way is 16R or 34L the one which is became longer or the central one??

^^ Thanks, I will try to remember next time when I get back to work in a week from now, I will get some shots of the work of privet aviation (ARABASCO)new location that is in work right now by SBG and I will try to get some photos of the new ramps and royal hangars if I don't get caught by security because every thing (including taking photos) is prohibited and not allowed inside the airport what so ever. (unless of course you are not Saudi and get nice blue eyes).

^^ thanks man
(unless of course you are not Saudi and get nice blue eyes).
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

then you can buy blue lens and takes photos freely good idea though!

^^ yeh, but I'm too old for that, my wife will start questioning, and I think security taking me away is much easier:lol::lol::lol:

PDF about the transportation plan for the airport:
http://uploading.com/files/OFKBQA6W/GACA.pdf.html

the P.D.F on an other server:
GACA.pdf - 8.64MB (http://www.zshare.net/download/59555105dc744f17/)

Saudi launches airport cities worth SR46bn

Abdullah Rehaimi, president of Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) has said that the kingdom will invest more than SR46bn ($12.3bn) to overhaul its airports until 2020 and is setting up a new company to manage its 27 hubs, Zawya Dow Jones has reported. GACA is working with the International Finance Corp, an arm of the World Bank, to develop three airport city projects at the kingdom's three international airports in Riyadh, Jeddah, on the Red Sea, and Dammam, on the Arabian Gulf. 'We're very behind in the development of our airports, but we're now transforming them into economic zones,' Rehaimi said.

The area of jeddah airport city is 5 sq. kilometers.

I thought Jeddah airport is busier than Dammam and Riyadh. I got this info from the net about size: "Taken literally as the airport which takes up the most land mass, this is the King Fahd International Airport in Damman, Saudi Arabia. It takes up some 780square kilometres - an area larger than many cities. By comparison, London Heathrow takes up around 3,000 acres, or just 4.7 square miles."

King Fahd International Airport's area is larger than the area of whole BAHRAIN country. A real huge area that is!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeddah airport to undergo multi-phase expansion

The development of Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah is well under way, with a number of contracts set to be handed out at the end of the month.

Amongst the many projects to be constructed are a new air cargo village, which will have a handling capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of cargo per year after first-phase completion.

When completely finished, the cargo village is anticipated to have capacity of around 3 million tonnes a year.

The US$11.3 billion project will also upgrade three runways, and increase passenger capacity to 80 million by 2035.

Three runways are being upgraded with the second scheduled for completion in October.

The government decided to increase the size of the runway to 4,000 metres in length and 75 metres in width to accommodate the new generation of aircraft such as the A380.

The first phase will accommodate up to 30 million passengers per year with in the new passenger terminal complex. The phase is expected to be completed by 2012 with 46 gates, a new air traffic control tower and an air cargo village with handling capacity of 1.5 million tonnes of cargo per year.

Last week, a senior representative from Saudi Airlines Cargo confirmed the carrier’s interest in the development of the project to arabiansupplychain.com.

“Saudi Arabian Airlines is willing to establish, run and manage that cargo village,” said Saud Arab, vice president of cargo marketing at Saudi Airlines Cargo, who was speaking on the sidelines of the Transport Logistic trade fair in Munich.

Contracts that will be up for tendering will include the deep foundation of the new terminal, relocation and demolition of facilities surrounding runways, while baggage handling system and terminal structure contracts will be put to tender in June and July this year.

The second phase will further increase passenger capacity to 50 million by 2020 and the third phase will see total capacity jump to 80 million passengers by 2035.

^^ gooooooooooood news.thanks dear!!

Good news.

King Fahd International Airport's area is larger than the area of whole BAHRAIN country. A real huge area that is!!!!!!!!!!!

No it is not, Bahrain is 2x the size of what KAEC will be. Unless your trying to say that King Fahd airport is more than the entire city of KAEC.

A simple google map is more than enough. www.google.com

some photos of work progress inside the airport:

1- new private aviation terminal (ARABASCO) by north terminal (south of west Hajj terminal):
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/4848/160gyi.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8948/161k.jpg

2- new ramps west of Jajj terminal and new royal hangars:

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6264/166r.jpg

some photos of work progress inside the airport:

1- new private aviation terminal (ARABASCO) by north terminal (south of west Hajj terminal):
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/4848/160gyi.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8948/161k.jpg

2- new ramps west of Jajj terminal and new royal hangars:

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6264/166r.jpg

penta,,your are the man!!
keep it up our KAIA reporter :lol:

No it is not, Bahrain is 2x the size of what KAEC will be. Unless your trying to say that King Fahd airport is more than the entire city of KAEC.

A simple google map is more than enough. www.google.com

What I am saying is that the total area of King Fahd International Airport, Dammam is 780 km square & the total area of Bahrain is 665 km square. So, Dammam Airport is larger than the whole Bahrain country. From where KAEC jumps????

Earth works began last week with lots of machines in the site scattered all over the place. (Almbani Comp)

What I am saying is that the total area of King Fahd International Airport, Dammam is 780 km square & the total area of Bahrain is 665 km square. So, Dammam Airport is larger than the whole Bahrain country. From where KAEC jumps????
Look, the 780 sqkm is nothing more than municipal zoning. The actual area of the airport is a tiny fraction of that. Aramco probably controls a bigger chunk of the airport zone than the airport authorities!

visit following site, there is new information about airport city:
http://www.saudiairportcities.org/

Regulator draws up shortlist for Jeddah airport city work

Saudi Arabia's aviation regulator, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (Gaca), is finalising a shortlist of developers to oversee the first phase of a multi-billion-dollar development on land surrounding King Abdulaziz International airport in Jeddah.

Expansion Project management building up and running

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3125/imag0107r.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/imag0107r.jpg/)

Expansion Project management building up and running

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3125/imag0107r.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/imag0107r.jpg/)

Is this building a new private aviation terminal

Is this building a new private aviation terminal

^^Project management building

Mass Earthworks & Site Preparation
http://www.almabani.com.sa/p2009_2.html

hi everyone . does anyone have info about this proj ....

because i was at the airport yesterday and it was a total mess (as always)
but it was so soo sooooooo bad
and there were european all over the place
and it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo crowded
that an ant couldent walk there ....

we really need a new airport

ok thanks

any update

we are still dreaming to see a good and nice airport in jeddah

أفاد تقرير صحفي أن الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني في المملكة العربية السعودية قامت مؤخرا بتعديل إستراتيجية طرح مشروع توسعة مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة، غربي المملكة، البالغة تكلفته 18 مليار ريال (4.8 مليار دولار).

ووفقا للتعديل، حسبما أوردت نشرة "ميد"، سيتم طرح المناقصة على شكل عقدين منفصلين من عقود التصميم والإنشاء بحيث يشمل الأول بناء الصالة الجديدة والثاني لتنفيذ أعمال البنيات الأساسية.

وتقول مصادر قريبة من شركات المقاولات إنه جرى اطلاعهم بالخطة المعدلة معربين عن توقعاتهم بان يتم طرح المناقصات في بداية العام الجاري.

ويعد مشروع توسعة مطار الملك عبد العزيز بجدة أحد أكبر المشروعات الإنشائية في المملكة والذي يشمل تصميم وإنشاء صالة على مساحة 600 ألف متر مربع وبسعة 30 مليون مسافر في العام إلى جانب أعمال البنيات الأساسية المرتبطة بالتوسعة منها المدرجات والأنفاق وإنشاء سكة حديدية خفيفة، حسب النشرة.

ووفقا للمصادر، تتهيأ الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني السعودية لدعوة ست مجموعات على الأقل للدخول في منافسة الحصول على العقدين المذكورين منها شركة المباني للمقاولات العامة المحلية وشركة "المقاولون المتحدون" (CCC) اليونانية وشركة "جواناو آند باراسكيفيدس" (Joannou & Paraskevaides) القبرصية ومجموعة بن لادن السعودية وتحالف بين شركتي "سعودي أوجيه" وموري آند روبرتس" (Murray & Roberts) الجنوب أفريقية وتحالف بين شركتي "تاف" (TAV) التركية ومجموعة الراجحي السعودية.

وكانت هيئة الطيران المدني قد ألغت مناقصة لحفر أساسات مشروع التوسعة المطروحة في بداية شهر ديسمبر 2009 وذلك على خلفية الخطة المعدلة علما أنه جرى تأهيل 20 شركة على الأقل في بداية شهر يوليو الماضي لعقد حفر الأساسات على أن يدرج مشروع حفر الأساس ضمن خطة عقود التوسعة الشاملة، حسب النشرة.

ولا يعرف مصير عقد إنشاء أنفاق تحت مدرج المطار الرئيسي البالغ طوله 700 متر سواء بالإلغاء أو الاستمرار فيه أو إمكانية إدراجه ضمن عقود أعمال البنيات الأساسية الجديدة.

وكانت شركة هندسة الموانئ الصينية قدمت أقل العروض في شهر ديسمبر الماضي لهذا المشروع بقيمة 223 مليون ريال (62 مليون دولار) في حين قدمت شركة اليمامة للتجارة والمقاولات السعودية عرضا بقيمة 249 مليون ريال، حسب النشرة.



Arabic to English translation:

According to a press report that the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia has recently amended the strategy to put the draft airport expansion of King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, western Saudi Arabia, the $ 18 billion riyals (4.8 billion dollars).

According to the amendment, as reported Bulletin "Mid", will be tender in the form of two separate contracts for design and construction to include building the first new terminal and the second to the implementation of infrastructure.

According to sources close to the contracting companies that have been amended, informing them of the plan and expressed their expectations that the bidding is at the beginning of the year.

The expansion project of King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah, one of the largest construction projects in the Kingdom, which includes design and construction of the lounge area of 600 thousand square meters and a capacity of 30 million passengers per year in addition to the infrastructure associated with the enlargement of the stands and the establishment of tunnels, light rail, according to the bulletin.

According to the sources, preparing the General Authority for Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia to call at least six groups to enter the competition to get the contracts listed companies including construction of buildings of the local public and the "Allied Contractors" (CCC) and the Greek company "Joinao AT & Barrackevids" (Joannou & Paraskevaides) Cypriot and Bin Laden, Saudi Arabia and the alliance between the companies, "Saudi Oger" and Murray & Roberts "(Murray & Roberts) South African and an alliance between the companies," TAV "(TAV) of Turkey and Al Rajhi Group, Saudi Arabia.

The Civil Aviation Authority has scrapped a tender for digging the foundations of the expansion project at hand at the beginning of December 2009 and on the back of the revised plan note that have been rehabilitated to 20 companies at least at the beginning of last July for a digging the foundations to include the drilling project basis within the overall expansion plan contracts, According to the bulletin.

Do not know the fate of the contract for the construction of tunnels under the main runway length of 700 meters, either cancel or continue or the possibility of the inclusion in contracts of the new infrastructure.

The Chinese ports engineering firm submitted the lowest bids in December for this project worth 223 million riyals ($ 62 million), while it provided the Al Yamamah Trading & Contracting Saudi Arabia, a $ 249 million riyals, according to the bulletin.

Source:
http://argaam.com/Portal/Content/ArticleDetail.aspx?articleId=138173

26 million loool I love china hee hee heeee

is that mean we have to wait.....2 more year to began construction the new plan?

is that mean we have to wait.....2 more year to began construction the new plan?
You never know, the original expansion plan was suppose to start 2001, then changed 2006, then changed again now.
I just hope that it does not become like Jeddah municipal signed off/never done projects.

أعلنت الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني أمس أنها قامت بتسليم وثائق منافسة العقود الرئيسة الخاصة بتنفيذ مشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي للشركات المتخصصة المحلية والدولية التي سبق وأن تم دعوتها وتأهيلها للتنفيذ، وذلك وفقا للإستراتيجية الجديدة التي وضعتها وتلتزم بها الهيئة، والتي بموجبها تم تصنيف وتقسيم العقود المتبقية واللازمة لتنفيذ المشروع في مجموعتين (حزمتين) وذلك على النحو التالي: الحزمة الأولى وتشمل: الأساسات العميقة، قبو صالات الركاب، نفق قطار المسافرين الآلي ونفق نظام مناولة الأمتعة ومحطة صيانة القطار، أعمال الخرسانة لمبنى صالات الركاب، الهيكل المعدني لمبنى صالات الركاب، تشطيبات مبنى صالات الركاب والأعمال الالكتروميكانيكية والمصاعد والسلالم والمفروشات، نظام قطار الركاب الآلي ومحطة الصيانة، جسور الركاب لدخول الطائرات، برج المراقبة الجوية وبرج الدعم الغربي للمراقبة مع نقل وتركيب أنظمة الراديو، المباني المساندة (مركز المعلومات ومركز الإطفاء ومركز إدارة الكوارث)، شبكات تقنية المعلومات والاتصال وشبكات البنى التحتية، نظام سيور الأمتعة. اما الحزمة الثانية التي اعلنتها هيئة الطيران فتشمل: مراكز توفير خدمة التكيف والتبريد للمطار و مدينة المطار (Airport City)، الشبكة الرئيسية لتمديدات خطوط مرافق خدمات المطار، ممرات وساحات الطائرات، شبكة الطرق (المؤدية للمطار) ومواقف السيارات الأرضية وأعمال التشجير، مواقف السيارات المتعددة الطوابق ومركز نقل الركاب المباني المساندة (مسجد ، محطة صيانة المعدات الأرضية وهناجر صيانة طائرات الطيران الخاص)، خزانات الوقود المشتل الزراعي. وأعلن المتحدث الرسمي للهيئة العامة للطيران المدني أنه تم تحديد يوم الاثنين 22/3/1431هـ الموافق 8/3/2010م موعدا لاستلام عروض الشركات على أن يتم البدء في أعمال التنفيذ قبل منتصف العام الجاري 1431هـ/2010م. وأوضح المصدر نفسه، أن هذه المنافسة تمثل أهم وأكبر خطوة نحو تنفيذ المشروع لما تنطوي عليه من عناصر ومرافق رئيسة وضخمة، مؤكدا أن الهيئة سوف تقوم في وقت لاحق بالإعلان عن نتائج العروض المقدمة والمراحل الفعلية لتنفيذ المشروع، لافتا إلى أن هذه الخطوة تأتي بعد أن تم تنفيذ عدد من العقود التحضيرية السابقة فيما يجري تنفيذ البعض الآخر.

Arabic to English translation;
Announced the General Administration of Civil Aviation announced that it has handed over documents on competitive contracts for the implementation of major development project's King Abdul Aziz International companies specialized local and international that have already been invited and to qualify them for implementation, in accordance with the new strategy developed by and abide by the Commission, under which they were classified and the division of contracts remaining to implement the project in two sets (two sets) and as follows: the first package, including: deep foundations, cellar passenger terminal, automated passenger train tunnel and a tunnel system, baggage handling and maintenance of the train station, the concrete passenger terminal building, the steel frame of the passenger terminal building, finishing passenger terminal building and electromechanical works, elevators, stairs and furniture, the passenger train station and automated maintenance, passenger bridges to enter the aircraft, air traffic control tower and Western support for the control with the transfer and installation of radio systems, buildings, support (Information Center and the Center for Fire and Disaster Management Center), networks of information and communication technology networks and infrastructure, baggage conveyor system. The second package announced by the Aviation Authority include: centers provide a service adjustment and cooling of the airport and the city airport (Airport City), main network of lines, extensions of facilities for airport services, aircraft corridors and yards, the road network (leading to the airport), parking ground and landscaping, parking multiple floors and the Center for passenger support buildings (mosque, station ground equipment maintenance hangars and aircraft maintenance aviation sector), fuel tanks, agricultural nursery. His official spokesman of the General Authority of Civil Aviation has been determined on Monday, 22/3/1431 AH corresponding to 8.3.2010 as the date for receipt of bids for companies to start operations in the work force before mid-year 1431 H / 2010. The same source said that this competition represents the largest and most important step towards the implementation of the project as it involves elements and facilities and a huge head, saying that the Commission will later announce the results of the presentations and the actual stages of implementation of the project, pointing out that this step comes after it has been implementation of a number of contracts in the previous preparations are being implemented others.
http://al-madina.com/node/213185

Airport work to start by mid-year
P.K. Abdul Ghafour | Arab News


JEDDAH: Work on the new expansion project for King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah will start by mid-2010 as the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has started distributing prequalification documents for companies to present their offers.

The project aims at building a new airport with an initial capacity of 30 million passengers per year on an area of 687,000 square meters, which will replace the existing terminals.

The last date for companies to present their offers is March 8. The project involves the design, engineering, supply, furnishing, installation, rehabilitation, construction, testing and commissioning of the airfield facilities and the related airport infrastructure facilities and the upgrading of the airside pavements to receive large aircraft such as Airbus 380s.

Contracts will be awarded to conduct geotechnical and topographic surveys, build tunnels and corridors, rail station and tunnels, baggage handling and conveyer systems, provide surveillance, communications and meteorological systems and build passenger-loading bridges. Airfield works include construction of taxiways, aprons, roads and services and support facilities.

“The new airport is designed to become a fully capable and state-of-the-art facility,” said the GACA in a statement. “It will ensure smooth transition from master plan to successful, profitable operation of new terminal, accommodating future traffic growth efficiently and comfortably.”

About 51,700 square meters inside the airport will be allocated for concessions while 6.5 square-km area outside the airport building would be set aside for implementing investment projects such as hotels, medical centers, hospitals, recreation centers, aircraft maintenance facilities and light aviation industries.

The new airport will be equipped with advanced aviation communication systems. It will also have a railway station enabling passengers to get into trains heading to Jeddah, Makkah and Madinah. It will help pilgrims reach the two holy cities quickly. The first phase will have a parking area for 8,200 cars that will be increased to 26,000 cars in the next phase. The airport will also have a cargo depot to handle three million tons of cargo annually.

In a previous statement, Abdullah Rehaimi, president of GACA, said the new airport would be ready by 2012.

“The main objective of this airport development project is to make KAIA a central airport that would link the Kingdom’s east with the west, and become a major hub for the distribution of passengers,” Rehaimi said.

In January 2007, Prince Sultan signed a SR902.91 million contract with Al-Mabani Company to develop and upgrade aviation facilities of the Jeddah airport. In July 2008, GACA signed another agreement worth SR514.9 million with Aéroports de Paris Company of France to provide design and engineering services.

ADP will design a railway station, which is to be established adjacent to passenger lounges, a multistory car parking building, a general plan for maintenance facilities, roads leading to the new terminal, an internal road network, aircraft parking areas and new tarmacs, as well as investment and commercial areas.

KAIA is the Kingdom’s first international airport, which was established in 1981. Covering an area of 105 square kilometers, KAIA is considered the main gateway of pilgrims coming from all over the world for Haj and Umrah.

تدشين أكبر محطة تبريد بصالات الحجاج بمطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة

إحدى الصالات الضخمة بمدينة الحجاج بمطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة
جدة-صالح الرويس
دشنت شركة رؤى المتقدمة لأعمال الكهرباء والميكانيكا (VISION) إحدى شركات شركة مواد الأعمار القابضة (CPC)، مشروع محطة التبريد المركزية بصالات الحجاج الشرقية بمطار الملك عبدالعزيز بجدة، لتوفير الطاقة الكهربائية ووحدات التكييف لهذه الصالات واستغرق العمل في إنشائها ثمانية أشهر فقط.
وصرح الدكتور فيصل إبراهيم العقيل، مدير تطوير الأعمال والشؤون الإدارية، والمتحدث الرسمي لشركة مواد الأعمار القابضة (CPC): " قامت شركة رؤى المتقدمة لأعمال الكهرباء والميكانيكا (VISION)، إحدى الشركات التابعة ل (CPC) بتنفيذ كافة أعمال المحطة كمقاول باطن لشركة مجموعة بن لادن السعودية وفي وقت قياسي، مما يؤكد جدارتها وقدرتها على تنفيذ أكبر الأعمال على اعلى مستوى من الكفاءة طبقاً للمواصفات العالمية. ومن شأن هذه المحطة توفير الطاقة الكهربائية ووحدات التبريد داخل مبنى صالات الحجاج الشرقي بكامل صالاته الخمس، بالإضافة إلى المباني التابعة، بما يضمن توفير اكبر قدر من الراحة لحجاج بيت الله الحرام، وتسهيل إجراءات وصولهم ومغادرتهم".
وعبر بهذه المناسبة المدير التنفيذي لشركة رؤى المهندس حسن شاهين: " لقد أقيمت المحطة والمباني المساندة لها على مساحة 100 ألف متر مربع، وتضم محطة وحدات التبريد التي تتكون من 6 وحدات تعمل بالطرد المركزي بطاقة إجمالية 15.000 طن تبريد شاملة أبراج التبريد وكافة التوصيلات والمضخات التابعة".
وأضاف: "تضم المحطة عددا كبيراً من المحولات الكهربائية التي تغذي جميع مرافق المحطة، حيث تبلغ الطاقة الكهربائية للمحطة حوالي 41.000 كيلو فولت أمبير و30.000 متر من كابلات الضغط المتوسط و20.000 متر من كابلات الضغط المنخفض، و5 مولدات احتياطية للكهرباء للطوارئ بقدرة 12.500 كيلو فولت أمبير، و176 لوحة رئيسة وفرعية موصلة بلوحة تحكم لتنسيق عملها، بالإضافة إلى خزانين للمياه بسعة إجمالية 12.540 مترا مكعباً وتوجد إمكانية للتوسع المستقبلي للمحطة من أجل خدمة صالات الحجاج الغربية".

Launching the largest cooling plant halls pilgrims at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah

One of the huge city halls pilgrims at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah

Launched a new vision of advanced electrical and mechanical (VISION) a subsidiary of Building Materials Holding Company (CPC), the central cooling plant project halls pilgrims Eastern King Abdulaziz Airport in Jeddah, to provide electric power and air conditioning units to the halls and took work in the establishment of eight months.
Dr Ibrahim Faisal Aqil, director of business development and administration, and official spokesman for the Building Materials Holding Company (CPC): "The company developed visions for the work of electrical and mechanical (VISION), a subsidiary of (CPC) to implement all of the station interior for a contractor company of Bin Laden, Saudi Arabia and in record time, which confirms the merit and ability to implement more business at the highest level of competence in accordance with international standards. Such a plant to provide electric power and refrigeration units inside the halls of pilgrims eastern full five halls, in addition to buildings, to ensure the provision of more a measure of comfort to the pilgrims, and to facilitate the procedures and arrival and departure. "
Through this occasion, CEO visions Hassan Shaheen: "We have set up the station and its supporting buildings on an area of 100 thousand square meters, and includes plant and refrigeration units, which consists of 6 units centrifugal total capacity of 15,000 tons of refrigeration including cooling towers and all the connections and pumps of" .
He added: "of the station a large number of electrical transformers that feed all the facilities of the station, where the power of nearly 41,000 KVA and 30,000 meters of medium-pressure cables and 20,000 meters of cables, low pressure, and 5 back-up generators for emergency power capacity of 12,500 KVA, 176 of the head of the sub-panel is connected to control panel to coordinate their work, as well as two water reservoirs with a total capacity 12,540 cubic meters and there is the possibility for future expansion of the station to serve the pilgrims galleries Bank. "

International Airport Review : ARTICLE in June 2009



Over recent years, airport development in the Middle East has attracted world-wide publicity, for the scale and ambition of the plans and for what appeared to be an insatiable growth of demand. Across the region, new terminals are appearing : the Gulf States perhaps gather most of the attention but, almost unnoticed, something big is happening on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula. At Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the redevelopment of King Abdulaziz International Airport ( KAIA ) is underway and starting to attract its own publicity.



The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ) has a long tradition of civil aviation, stretching back over 70 years ; flag carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines ( Saudia ) has 60 years to its credit. Nowadays the industry is controlled by the General Authority of Civil Aviation ( GACA ), part of the Ministry of Defense and Aviation. GACA are responsible for Economic and Safety Regulation, Air Navigation Services and operation of the Kingdom's 27 airports.



Under the leadership of H.E. The President of GACA, Eng. Abdullah Ruhaimi, the sector is undergoing transformation, changing from a Government service into a commercially-driven business, customer-focused and financially independent. Separation of regulatory and operational responsibilities has already occurred, while airport organization and management structure are changing rapidly to embrace the new dynamism.



KAIA is at the forefront of this process, as the leading airport in KSA, serving Jeddah, the Kingdom's commercial centre and of course the entry point for visitors to Makkah and Madinah, the two holy cities of Islam. Opened in 1981, KAIA covers a large area of 105 sq km and incorporates a range of existing facilities : three parallel runways, two main passenger terminals, the iconic tented structure of the Hajj Terminal, the Royal Terminal, General Aviation Terminal, Cargo Terminal, a military logistics base and the necessary support facilities and infrastructure.



Jeddah is also the home base for Saudia, who have a major and growing stake in airport facilities and who are also undergoing their own transformation from legacy carrier to commercially-driven and focused airline.



With continuous growth for the last ten years, passenger throughput at KAIA is now over 16 mppa and operations through the rather dated infrastructure have suffered. The airport is congested at times, the level of customer service is unsatisfactory and major improvements are now overdue. GACA have recognized this need and have embarked on an ambitious programme of development, based upon a Master Plan established through 2005 – 2007.



The programme is driven by a dedicated team within GACA : King Abdulaziz Development Project Directorate ( KADP ), led by its own Director-General, Eng. Adnan Zuhairy.



The Master Plan looks at development in three phases to 2035, when ultimate capacity could reach 70 – 80 mppa, still using the existing three runways. The strategy follows a "just in time" approach, to ensure the correct balance of capacity, quality of service and cost and provide, in effect, a new airport created within the existing boundary. One of the advantages of such a large existing land area is to allow the plan to proceed.



Phase I is now underway, with the following objectives for 2013 :



· Create a state-of-the-art terminal facility, capacity 30 mppa, with the capability to operate as both a domestic and an international hub

· Incorporation of transportation centre and railway station, to accommodate the new high-speed rail service now under construction, serving Makkah and Madinah

· Full program of supporting infrastructure : Code F capacity airside, new landside road network, utilities, services and support facilities

· Implementation of first phase of cargo village and airport city development, driven by private sector investment

· Maintain uninterrupted airport operations at all times

· Plan and implement Airport Operational and Transfer ( ORAT ) Programme, to move all scheduled airlines from existing two terminal to the new facility

· Promote opportunities for involvement of the private sector, to encourage commercial dynamism, quality and variety in the new airport development.



Already, significant elements of this ambitious plan are well advanced :

*
North Terminal and South Terminal upgrade / expansion, to create more space landside and airside, provide new equipment and improved facilities, to serve until the new terminal complex is completed.

* Hajj Terminal BOT : Redevelopment and operation around the existing Hajj Terminal, as a 19-year contract. A bold, ambitious move to upgrade the service provided for pilgrims.

* New desalination plant BOT : replacing old equipment with new, extended capacity to serve the airport

* ANS Area Control Center : on stream in 2009, providing Air Navigation Services over a vast area of Western Arabia and beyond

* Airfield facilities upgrade, including:

Extending, reconstructing runways and taxiways.

Renewal of AGL and related infrastructure.

Accommodation of Code F aircraft.

This work is ongoing, currently 60% complete.



And the most ambitious element of all is now getting underway, to deliver the main project :



· Passenger Terminal Complex, 600,000 sq m floor area, a state-of-the-art facility spread over a spectacular twin crescent footprint

· 46 contact gates, 76 boarding bridges, including double deck A380 access

· APM linking the domestic zone and the international hub

· Transportation Centre with integrated rail station

· ATC Control Tower 130m high, one of the tallest in the world

· Taxiways, roads, tunnels, utilities networks, support facilities on a scale to match the main buildings

· Fuel tank farm and hydrant network

· Plant nursery and garden centre



To achieve this level of development within a realistic time schedule requires a fast-track construction approach. In 2007, GACA appointed Dar Al-Handasah as Construction Manager, to plan and control the process and in 2008 ADPi were awarded the main design contract for all major facilities. Construction is planned as a series of packages ; preliminary works are well advanced, mass earthworks has just started and a steady stream of further packages is in the pipeline, covering a broad variety of disciplines.



The four-year schedule for Phase 1 Development will require investment in the order of US$ 5 to 6 billion. Despite, or perhaps because of the scale of development, a strong emphasis is placed on sustainability, a responsible approach to environmental issues, quite a challenge in the Jeddah climate. This policy is highlighted by the adopted target to achieve LEED Silver status for the project, demanding a rigorous process of design, choice of materials, recycling, reduced carbon footprint, wherever possible. From the start on site, the environment is high-profile, with major clean up and ground improvement measures underway.



While KADP lead the main airport programme, the private sector is being attracted to grasp the parallel opportunities available in support services and industries, chief among which are the extended cargo village and phased growth of the airport city. GACA and key stakeholders including SAGIA, Jeddah Municipality, Chamber of Commerce and private developers, recognise the unique opportunity to promote a strong neighbourhood centre in North Jeddah, created around the airport, with high quality, high tech infrastructure and an attractive environment. Developments envisage multi-occupier and multi-use operations, both serving and attracting airport customers, driving economic growth in the region and enhancing the airport reputation.



A transformation on this scale clearly involves more than infrastructure : KADP is about much more than construction. The new airport will require a new way of operation, a greater emphasis on customer service and, it could be said, a new way of thinking. The airport will represent a true state-of-the-art development, sharing the best of modern technology, in an increasingly integrated operational environment. As a result and as a strategy, it is envisaged that operation and maintenance in future will involve a significantly greater role for the private sector : O&M contracts are probable for BHS, APM, IT networks and Telephony, with increasing partnership opportunities between GACA as owner and private sector operators.



GACA have wisely decided on a steady transfer of knowledge and capability, increasingly introduced from the private sector or successful airports elsewhere, to promote a climate of change and opportunity within the airport sector.



At the same time, as expertise grows and the airport ownership / management structure is modernised, "corporatised", with economic and financial benefits, there may come a time when privatisation becomes a serious option, in full or in part. The possibility remains and, meanwhile, there is more than enough change to manage over the next few years.



From a quiet start, KAIA Development is growing and promises to be truly an impressive project. This is a serious undertaking, with a commitment to succeed. KAIA has the potential to be a world class airport, so watch closely : to repeat the introduction statement, something big is happening in Jeddah.

here is some of the latest renderings:

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It looks like a copy paste job of Beijing's terminal. The front is awful. What happend to the multiple cresents design?

^^ This is phase one, phase 2 and 3 will add 2 additional huge terminals north of this one (2015-2035) plan

تسليم وثائق تطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز للشركات المتنافسة

أعلنت الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني أمس، أنها سلمت وثائق منافسة العقود الرئيسة الخاصة، بتنفيذ مشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي للشركات المتخصصة المحلية والدولية التي سبق أن تم دعوتها وتأهيلها للتنفيذ، وذلك وفقا للاستراتيجية الجديدة التي وضعتها وتلتزم بها الهيئة، والتي بموجبها تم تصنيف وتقسيم العقود المتبقية واللازمة لتنفيذ المشروع في مجموعتين (حزمتين) وذلك على النحو التالي: الحزمة الأولى وتشمل: الأساسات العميقة، قبو صالات الركاب، نفق قطار المسافرين الآلي ونفق نظام مناولة الأمتعة ومحطة صيانة القطار، أعمال الخرسانة لمبنى صالات الركاب، الهيكل المعدني لمبنى صالات الركاب، تشطيبات مبنى صالات الركاب والأعمال الإلكتروميكانيكية والمصاعد والسلالم والمفروشات، نظام قطار الركاب الآلي ومحطة الصيانة، جسور الركاب لدخول الطائرات، برج المراقبة الجوية وبرج الدعم الغربي للمراقبة مع نقل وتركيب أنظمة الراديو المباني المساندة (مركز المعلومات ومركز الإطفاء ومركز إدارة الكوارث) شبكات تقنية المعلومات والاتصال وشبكات البنى التحتية، ونظام سيور الأمتعة. أما الحزمة الثانية فتشمل: مراكز توفير خدمة التكيف والتبريد للمطار ومدينة المطار Airport City، الشبكة الرئيسية لتمديدات خطوط مرافق خدمات المطار، ممرات وساحات الطائرات، شبكة الطرق (المؤدية للمطار) ومواقف السيارات الأرضية وأعمال التشجير، مواقف السيارات المتعددة الطوابق، ومركز نقل الركاب المباني المساندة (مسجد، محطة صيانة المعدات الأرضية وهناجر صيانة طائرات الطيران الخاص)، خزانات الوقود، والمشتل الزراعي.

وأعلن المتحدث الرسمي للهيئة العامة للطيران المدني، أنه تم تحديد يوم الاثنين 8/3/2010م موعدا لاستلام عروض الشركات، على أن يتم البدء في أعمال التنفيذ قبل منتصف العام الجاري 1431هـ/2010م. وأوضح المصدر نفسه، أن هذه المنافسة تمثل أهم وأكبر خطوة نحو تنفيذ المشروع لما تنطوي عليه من عناصر ومرافق رئيسة وضخمة، مؤكدا أن الهيئة سوف تعلن في وقت لاحق عن نتائج العروض المقدمة والمراحل الفعلية لتنفيذ المشروع، لافتا إلى أن هذه الخطوة تأتي بعد أن تم تنفيذ عدد من العقود التحضيرية السابقة فيما يجري تنفيذ البعض الآخر.

source: aleqtisadeyya (http://www.aleqt.com/2010/01/07/article_328743.html)

google translator:

Documents to develop King Abdul Aziz airport had been handed over for competing firms:

Announced the General Administration of Civil Aviation yesterday, they delivered the documents and contracts its own major competition, the implementation of the development project's King Abdul Aziz International companies specialized local and international that have already been invited and to qualify them for implementation, in accordance with the new strategy developed by and abide by the Commission, under which they were classified and divided the remaining contracts and to implement the project in two sets (two sets) and as follows: the first package, including: deep foundations, cellar passenger terminal, passenger train tunnel and a tunnel system of automated baggage handling and maintenance of the train station, the concrete passenger terminal building, the steel frame of the passenger terminal building, Finishing passenger terminal building and electromechanical works, elevators, stairs and furniture, the passenger train station and automated maintenance, passenger bridges to enter the aircraft, air traffic control tower and Western support for the control with the transfer and installation of radio systems, buildings, support (Information Center and the Center for Fire and Disaster Management Center) networks, information and communication technology and networks infrastructure, and the system of baggage conveyor. The second package includes: Centers provide a service adjustment and cooling of the airport and the city airport, Airport City, the main network lines, extensions of facilities for airport services, air corridors and yards, the road network (leading to the airport), parking and landscaping ground, multi-storey car parks, the status of passenger buildings support (mosque, station ground equipment maintenance hangars and aircraft maintenance aviation sector), fuel tanks, and agricultural nursery.

His official spokesman of the General Authority of Civil Aviation, it was determined on Monday 8.3.2010 as the date for receipt of bids of companies, that is to begin implementation before the middle of the year 1431 H / 2010. The same source said that this competition represents the largest and most important step towards the implementation of the project as it involves elements and facilities and a huge head, saying that the Commission will be announced later on the results of the presentations and the actual stages of implementation of the project, pointing out that this step comes after implementing the a number of contracts in the previous preparations are being implemented while others

airport upgrade status;
1- new general aviation ramps almost ready
2- new general aviation terminal (ARABASCO) almost ready.

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Can anybody embed image? I tried every thing with no luck.

^^here u go.

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^^ thanks

تمديد الموعد النهائي لتلقي عروض الشركات لعقود تصميم وتنفيذ توسعة مطار الملك عبد العزيز بجدة إلى 29 مارس الجاري
أرقام 03/03/2010

مددت الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني في المملكة العربية السعودية الموعد النهائي لتلقي عروض الشركات لعقدين رئيسيين من عقود التصميم والإنشاء المتعلقة بمشروع توسعة مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة بتكلفته البالغة 18 مليار ريال (4.8 مليار دولار) إلى 29 مارس الجاري, حسبما أوردت نشرة "ميد".

وكانت الهيئة السعودية قد حددت في وقت سابق من العام الجاري يوم 8 مارس كموعد نهائي لتلقي عروض الشركات حيال مشروع التوسعة للمطار.

ويشمل العقد الأول بناء الصالة الجديدة على مساحة 600 ألف متر مربع, بحيث تكون قادرة على استيعاب 30 مليون مسافر في العام, بينما يشمل العقد الثاني تنفيذ أعمال البنيات الأساسية المتعلقة بتصميم وبناء المدرجات والأنفاق وسكة حديدية خفيفة.

ووفقاً لمصادر قريبة من المشروع، تم تأهيل ست مجموعات من الشركات للدخول في منافسة الحصول على العقدين المذكورين هي شركة المباني للمقاولات العامة المحلية، وشركة "المقاولون المتحدون" (CCC) اليونانية، وشركة "جواناو آند باراسكيفيدس" (Joannou & Paraskevaides) القبرصية، ومجموعة بن لادن السعودية، وتحالف بين شركتي "سعودي أوجيه" وموري آند روبرتس" (Murray & Roberts) الجنوب إفريقية (منطقة الشرق الأوسط)، وتحالف بين شركتي "تاف" (TAV) التركية ومجموعة الراجحي السعودية.

يذكر أن الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني السعودية قامت مؤخراً بتعديل إستراتيجية طرح مشروع توسعة مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة عن طريق تجزئة المناقصة إلى عقدين منفصلين بحيث يشمل الأول بناء الصالة الجديدة, والثاني تنفيذ أعمال البنيات الأساسية بهدف تقليل الفترة الزمنية في إنجاز المشروع.



Extend the deadline for receiving bids from companies to contracts for the design and implementation of the expansion of King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah to 29 March
Figures 03/03/2010

Extended by the General Authority for Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia, the deadline for receiving bids for two major companies from decades of design and construction of an airport expansion project of King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah is billed $ 18 billion riyals ($ 4.8 billion) to 29 March, the Post reported, "MEED" .

The original date was March 8 as the deadline for receiving bids from companies about the expansion project of the airport.

The contract includes building the first new terminal on an area of 600 thousand square meters, so as to be able to accommodate 30 million passengers per year, while the second contract includes the implementation of the infrastructure for the design and construction of terraces and tunnels, light rail.

According to sources close to the project, the rehabilitation of six groups of companies to enter the competition to get the contracts mentioned buildings is a local General Contracting, Inc. "Allied Contractors" (CCC) Greek, Inc. "AT & Joinao Barrackevids" (Joannou & Paraskevaides) Cyprus, and a Bin Laden, Saudi Arabia, and an alliance between the two, "Saudi Oger" and Murray & Roberts "(Murray & Roberts) South African (Middle East), and an alliance between the two" TAV "(TAV) of Turkey and Al Rajhi Group, Saudi Arabia.

The General Authority for Civil Aviation in Saudi Arabia has recently amended to introduce a strategic expansion of King Abdul Aziz airport in Jeddah by the international fragmentation of the auction to two separate contracts to include the first new terminal building, and the second implementation of the infrastructure in order to reduce the period of time in completing the project.

Anybody who has an idea of which contractor will win this phase 1 finally ?

الطيران المدني يستلم عروض تطوير مطار الملك عبدالعزيز وينفي ترسية المشروع على إحدى الشركات

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أكدت الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني اليوم أن المدير الإنشائي لمشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي يعكف حالياً على إنهاء إجراءات التقييم المالي والفني بعد أن استلم مؤخراً عروض الشركات والتحالفات المتقدمة للمنافسة على تنفيذ مشروع تطوير مطار الملك عبدالعزيز الدولي بجدة المرحلة الأولى بجدة وفق إستراتيجية الهيئة الجديدة بطرح المشروع في حزمتين .

وقال خالد الخيبري المتحدث الرسمي للهيئة العامة للطيران المدني في بيان أصدره اليوم إن الهيئة تسلمت عروض الشركات المتنافسة على المشروع في 13 /4 /1431هـ الموافق 29/3/2010م وأن الجهة المعنية تقوم حالياً بدراسة وتحليل العروض من الناحيتين الفنية والمالية .

وأكد حرص الهيئة العامة للطيران المدني على أن تعلن عن الشركات الفائزة حال الانتهاء من إجراءات التقييم موضحاً أن الشركات والتحالفات التي تقدمت للمنافسة على المشروع بعروضها الفنية والمالية هي كالتالي :

الحزمة الأولى وتقدمت لها الشركات التالية : مجموعة بن لادن السعودية .

شركة سعودي أوجيه المحدودة وشركة موري اند روبرتس

شركة المباني مقاولون عامون / شركة سفاري (تضامنية ) .

شركة المقاولون المتحدون / شركة ( TAV ) للإنشاءات / شركة السيف / شركة الراجحي ( تضامنية ) .

الحزمة الثانية تقدمت لها الشركات التالية :

مجموعة بن لادن السعودية .

شركة سعودي أوجيه المحدودة وشركة موري آند روبرتس

شركة المباني مقاولون عامون / شركة سفاري (تضامنية ) .

شركة المقاولون المتحدون / شركة ( TAV ) للإنشاءات / شركة السيف / شركة الراجحي ( تضامنية ) .

الشركة الصينية للاتصالات المحدودة .

ونفى المتحدث الرسمي ما ذكرته بعض الصحف المحلية يوم أمس نقلا عن إحدى وكالات الأنباء الأجنبية ، أنه تمت ترسية المشروع على إحدى شركات المقاولات السعودية ، مؤكداً أن المدير الإنشائي للمشروع لا يزال يعمل على إجراءات التقييم الفني والمالي ، وستعلن النتائج حال الانتهاء من الإجراءات النظامية وفق ما هو معمول به حسب الأنظمة الحكومية المتبعة .
source (http://www.aleqt.com/a/378287_99206.jpg)

english please....

we are still dreaming

Since 2000 until now, we hear about these innovations and so far we have not seen anything

إيلاف: بلغت المناقصة الدنيا على انجاز جناح مطار الملك عبد العزيز الجديد 11.3 مليار ريال سعودي (3.01 مليار دولار) والسعر الأدنى لانجاز البنية التحتية 13.9 مليار ريال، وتقل المناقصتان نحو 3 مليارات ريال عن اقرب العروض المنافسة، وسيكون هذا اختبارا للخيار الذي تفضله هيئة الطيران المدني في منح العقود الى شركتي مقاولات مختلفتين.

وحقيقة أن صاحبة المناقصة المتدنية على العقدين هي مجموعة بن لادن السعودية العملاقة تبين هيمنة هذه الشركة في سوق الانشاءات السعودية، وبحسب "ميد بروجيكتس" MEED Projects المتخصصة بمتابعة المشاريع التي تُنفذ في المنطقة فان قيمة الطلبيات المسجلة في دفاتر المجموعة تبلغ 15.4 مليار دولار ، او ما يقرب من ثلاثة امثال منافستها السعودية الوطنية أوغر Oger.

ويعني موقع الصدارة الذي تحتله مجموعة بن لادن السعودية وغيرها من المقاولين المحليين مثل اوغر في السوق ، ان من الصعب على الشركات الإنشائية الإقليمية والدولية ان تظفر بعقود عمل في المملكة. وبحسب ميد بروجيكتس فان الشركات المحلية تتولى 83 في المئة من عقود الانشاء والبنى التحتية التي تُنفذ حاليا.

ولكن هذا الوضع يمكن ان يتغير، وبخلاف الدول الخليجية الصغيرة مثل دولة الامارات العربية حيث انكمشت سوق الانشاءات بحدة بعد انهيار اسعار العقارات فان العربية السعودية ما زالت تقدم امكانات طويلة الأمد لأنها بحاجة الى بناء مساكن وبنى تحتية لسكانها البالغ عددهم نحو 28 مليون نسمة.

وإذا مضت المملكة قدما في تنفيذ مشاريع جديدة سيتعين على الشركات المحلية ان تنمو لتلبية طلب السوق، وإذا لم تتمكن من تحقيق هذا النمو فانها ستترك فرصا بمليارات الدولارات الى الشركات الأجنبية لاغتنامها، ولكن حتى الآن لا يبدو ان هذه هي الحال.

تشير مناقصات مجموعة بن لادن السعودية على مطار جدة الى ان الشركات المحلية ما زالت تتطلع الى النمو وانها مستعدة للتنافس بقوة من اجل تحقيق ذلك.
http://www.elaph.com/Web/Economics/2010/4/555458.html

No progress on this project annoys me!!!

Worst Airports in the Middle East
- 2009 -
(1) Doha
(2) Sanaa
(3) Tripoli
(4) Damman
(5) Amman
(6) Abu Dhabi
(7) Sharjah
(8) Manama
(9) Jeddah
(10) Damascus

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Best Airports in the Middle East
- 2009 -


(1) Dubai
(2) Tel Aviv
(3) Riyadh
(4) Beirut
(5) Tehran
(6) Manama
(7) Kuwait

do you believe this !!!

^^Source please.

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/worst-airports.htm

Worst Airport in the Middle East
http://www.sleepinginairports.net/archives/worst-airports/2009/middle-east.htm

Best Airport in the Middle East
http://www.sleepinginairports.net/archives/best-airports/2009/middle-east.htm

Worst Airports in the Middle East
- 2009 -
(1) Doha
(2) Sanaa
(3) Tripoli
(4) Damman
(5) Amman
(6) Abu Dhabi
(7) Sharjah
(8) Manama
(9) Jeddah
(10) Damascus

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Best Airports in the Middle East
- 2009 -


(1) Dubai
(2) Tel Aviv
(3) Riyadh
(4) Beirut
(5) Tehran
(6) Manama
(7) Kuwait

do you believe this !!!

THANK GOD .... RIYADH RANK NO 3

3baaad 4 Jeddah THANKS

Dammam Airport isn't really that bad

And Doha is worse than Sana'a ..? Poor Qatar :ohno:

is it really true
but why i see Manama in both (worst "8" and best "6" airports ) :nuts:
anyway thanks quys.

Beautiful expansion i wish completed quickly :cheers:

Dammam Airport isn't really that bad

And Doha is worse than Sana'a ..? Poor Qatar :ohno:

thank god the new airport is opening next year :ohno:

thank god the new airport is opening next year :ohno:

Yea i believe Qatar will be the next big thing in the gulf ( in terms of facility's, serves , infrastructures...etc )

^^ Yep. They're pretty much building it all up silently.


But the whole GCC -maybe except Oman- is in a transition period now, so we can't predict what's the next big thing. I think from 2020 and on we'll have a good insight on that.

i think saudi arabia will be a huge central business in the middle east ,after they done building the KAEC

ggg

The Council of Ministers on Monday commended the efforts of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) to expand King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, the main gateway of pilgrims to the Kingdom.

The KAIA expansion project aims to establish a modern airport with an initial capacity of handling 30 million passengers and an ultimate capacity of 80 million passengers and three million tons of cargo per year.

The new airport will have a single passenger terminal for both Saudi Arabian Airlines and foreign airlines and will cover an area of 678,000 square meters, replacing the existing North and South Terminals.

The Cabinet statement did not say when the new airport project would start. But Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation and GACA's chairman, said the project is ready for the approval of higher authorities.

The project includes the building of tunnels, corridors, train stations, and baggage handling and conveyer systems; communications and meteorological systems; and passenger-loading bridges. Airfield works include construction of taxiways, aprons, roads and services and support facilities.

About 51,700 square meters inside the airport will be allocated for shops while a 6.5 square-km area outside the airport building would be set aside to implement investment projects such as hotels, hospitals, recreation centers, aircraft maintenance facilities and light aviation industries.

The Cabinet meeting, which was chaired by Prince Sultan, also highlighted the significance of the "Roads to Arabia" exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris, which was opened by Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner on July 13.

"This exhibition embodies the cultural dimension of Saudi-French relations," the Cabinet statement said. It also highlights the rich history of the Arabian Peninsula and the efforts made by King Abdul Aziz to unify the Kingdom and establish a modern state.

The Louvre exhibition, which showcases 350 rare artifacts showing different cultures and civilizations that have inhabited the Arabian Peninsula, has been drawing a large number of visitors since its opening.

The exhibition, which is organized by SCTA, will remain open in Paris until Sept. 27 before moving to Barcelona in Spain. It will also be staged in a number of European, US and Gulf cities.

Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja said the Cabinet endorsed the cooperation agreement between the Saudi Commission for Investigation and Public Prosecution with its South Korean counterpart.

It also approved the general cooperation agreement with Brazil, which was signed on May 16, 2009.