Bang expansion upgrade#

King Khaled Airport is designed with all four terminals within one main building, which are connected to each other by three linking buildings.

Design of King Khaled International Airport The expansion is part of a larger $4.4bn development and expansion programme by the Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaвЂ™s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). It also includes 30 counters for departure and 48 counters for passport control. The project is a part of the Riyadh Development Projects and includes 14 travel gates and 80 check-in counters. The underground service tunnel under the tarmac T is also completed and the project rate completion was 11.65% in November 2019.

Bang expansion upgrade#

The $1.45bn contract includes the redesign, upgrade and expansion of Terminals 3 and 4, and demolition and refurbishment of the other airport infrastructure.Дemolition and removal work was completed by November 2019. The joint venture of Hochtief, Shapoorji Pallonji Mideast and Nahdat Al Emaar was selected as the technical and commercial lead of the expansion project in June 2015.

King Khaled International Airport expansion project The new Terminal 5 was inaugurated in 2016 to handle more than 12 million passengers per year. With a total of four terminals, one of the worldвЂ™s tallest air control towers, a mosque and two parallel 4,205m-long runways, King Khaled Airport serves as the gateway to Saudi ArabiaвЂ™s largest city. When the airport opened in 1983, it became the largest in the world in terms of ground area, originally covering 225kmВІ, only to be surpassed in 1999 by another Saudi Arabian airport, DammamвЂ™s King Fahd International. It was designed by the US-based architecture-engineering firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK).

King Khaled International Airport is located 35km north of Saudi ArabiaвЂ™s capital city Riyadh.