Role: Senior Manager - Special Airport Systems and Master Systems Integration
Suvarnabhumi Airport - The construction cost of the project is $3.5 Billion. The terminal area is 6,000,000 square feet (500,000 sqm) of floor space. This is the world's largest single terminal complex, and was the largest construction project in Asia at the time of construction. The terminal roof trellises are also the largest of its kind in the world.
The terminal capacity is 45-50 million passengers a year with the ability to handle 76 flights per hour. The airport will be expanded to its ultimate capacity by 2010 to handle 112 flights per hour and accommodating 100 million passengers each year. The terminal has the ability to handle 1.46 million tons of cargo per year handling 51 aircraft stands and 24 remote parking bays for wide-bodied aircraft.
Suvarnabhumi Airport (meaning 'Golden Land' in Sanskrit), also known as (New) Bangkok International Airport, is an international airport serving Bangkok, Thailand. It was officially opened for limited domestic flight service on 15 September 2006, and opened for most domestic and all international commercial flights on 28 September. The airport is currently the main hub for Thai Airways International, Bangkok Airways, Orient Thai Airlines, Thai AirAsia and will be a hub for the new Thai Tiger Airways.
The airport is located in Racha Thewa in Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan Province, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of downtown Bangkok. The name Suvarnabhumi was chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and refers to the golden kingdom hypothesised to have been located somewhere in Southeast Asia.
Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects, the airport has the world's tallest control tower (132.2 metres / 434 feet), and the world's third largest single-building airport terminal (563,000 square metres / 6,060,000 square feet). Suvarnabhumi is the 3rd busiest airport in Asia, and the busiest in the country, having handled 42.7 million passengers in 2010, and is also a major air cargo hub. The airport inherited the airport code BKK from Don Mueang after the older airport ceased international commercial flights. A modern motorway no.7 connects the airport, Bangkok, and the heavily industrial Eastern Seaboard of Thailand, where most of the manufacturing for export takes place.
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