Oslo Airport's Terminal 2, also known as Central Building 2, in Norway, will increase the passenger handling capacity of the airport to 28 million travellers a year. The project was conceptualised in 2007, construction works are 50% completed as of mid-2014 and the new terminal is scheduled to open in April 2017.
Previously known as Diosdado Macapagal International Airport. It is the fastest growing airport in the Philippines with a recorded 71% growth in passenger traffic from 2011 to 2012.
The Queen officially opened Heathrow Airport's Terminal 2, Copenhagen Airport successfully trialed Google Glass, while Neptec Technologies' laser scanners were selected for an airport safety project in Germany. Airport-technology.com wraps-up the key headlines from June 2014. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh officially opened London Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 2 in the UK.
Renowned for their expertise, Creative Group, New Delhi designs the Vadodara airport as a green building with an iconic dynamic form. Check out the story here…
Design Forum International architects zero-in on a human-centric approach in the design of this transportation hub at Guwahati, Assam, India. Check out the details here...
Heralding an era of conscious aviation, Ayodhya's Maharishi Valmiki International Airport designed by architect firm Sthapati materialises as a spectacular narrative of contextual sustainability, historic grounded-ness and cultural significance.
Airports across the UK are still on high alert after Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey became the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on UK soil. We ask Professor Paul Cosford, director for health protection and medical director for Public Health England, if screening procedures at Heathrow and other UK hubs are sufficiently robust to protect passengers and staff.
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the long-term lending arm of the European Union, has a long history of investing in critical airport infrastructure projects, often in situations where air transit has become a critical humanitarian need.
Abu Dhabi International Airport, which is located in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE, completed expansion projects in 2002. These involved a new 4,100m runway and taxiway, a new satellite terminal, a rapid transit shuttle and a series of 18 new...
London Gatwick Airport is one of the aviation industry's early adopters of wide-ranging cloud services for its core IT needs. Leading the charge is Gatwick's CIO Michael Ibbitson, who has been pushing to reduce the airport's reliance on centralised data centres by outsourcing to the cloud.
Terminal 3 of Brazil's São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airportstarted operations in May, one month ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2014, for which it was primarily constructed.
The JetBlue Terminal or Terminal 5 of John F Kennedy Airport is one of the first terminals in US to be built after 9/11. The terminal was officially opened in October 2008 and is primarily used by JetBlue Airways, which is popularly known as New York's hometown airlines.
The rising popularity of mammoth aircraft has led to a drastic need for runways long enough to cater for them. As airports adjust to handle aircraft such as the Airbus A380, airport-technology.com profiles some of the world's longest commercial runways. Whether constructed out of asphalt or concrete, runways across the world are getting longer.
: Life is all about the hits and the misses! IAnD presents the hit design stories of 2018 - collated via the reader-appreciation matrix.
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