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Bangkok Airport
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Costing an
estimated 155 billion baht the airport has 2
parallel runways (60 m wide, 4000 m and 3700 m
long) and two parallel taxiways to accommodate
simultaneous departures and arrivals. It has a
total of 120 parking bays (51 with contact gates
and 69 remote gates), with five of these capable
of accommodating the Airbus A380. The main
passenger terminal building, with a capacity of
handling 76 flight operations per hour,
co-locates the international and domestic
terminals, though assigning them to different
parts of the concourse. In the initial phase of
construction, it will be capable of handling 45
million passengers and 3 million tones' of cargo
per year. Above the future underground rail link
station and in front of the passenger terminal
building is a 600-room hotel operated by Accor
Group under the Novotel brand. Between the
airport hotel and the terminal building are the
two 5-storey car parks with a combined capacity
of 5,000 cars.
Long-term
plans for four runways flanking two main
terminals and two satellite buildings with a
combined capacity capable of handling up to 100
million passengers and 6.4 million tones' of
cargo a year are on the drawing board. The
second phase of airport expansion involving the
construction of a satellite building south of
the main terminal is expected to begin 3 to 5
years after the completion of the first main
terminal.
Airports of
Thailand PLC (AOT), the owner and operator of
Suvarnabhumi Airport, announced on 21 July 2006
that a separate terminal for Low-cost carriers
will be built at the airport at a cost of 600
million baht (15.8 million dollars). The budget
terminal will be located near Concourse A of the
main terminal. It is capable of handling 15
million passengers per year. Its operating
concept will be modeled after the LCC terminals
of Kuala Lumpur International Airport and
Singapore Changi Airport. As Suvarnabhumi
Airport is current operating at near capacity,
the idea of re-opening Don Mueng International
Airport for low-cost airlines is being
considered to help ease the traffic at
Suvarnabhumi Airport.
Despite
claims from the owner of the airport that the
new passenger terminal building is the world's
largest at 563,000 mē, Hong Kong International
Airport still stays number one with 570,000 mē,
as the airport completed expanding the existing
terminal in 2004 from 550,000 mē to make room
for the greatly expanded shopping mall, SkyMart,
at the East Hall area. The control tower,
however, is the tallest in the world at 132.2 m,
topping Kuala Lumpur's by about 2 meters.
LSI provided staff to Takenaka Corporation,
Tokyo who held positions of Senior Special
Systems, Extra Low Voltage and Systems
Integration Managers and Engineers under the
direction of Principal Engineer, Prof. David R.
Langholff. Additional staff were provided to CNA
Engineers Singapore for the Building Services
Integration works (via recently acquired
company, I-WOS Technologies, USA).
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