Edinburgh Airport has grown rapidly over the last 10 years. It is Scotland’s busiest airport, with over nine million passengers a year.
Halcrow has provided civil and structural engineering services to help the airport adapt to this growth since 1996, much of it under a formal framework agreement with owner and operator BAA.
These projects include:
- The Edinburgh Airport Major Development, carried out in three phases between 1995 and 2003. This £60 million extension to the passenger terminal provided an additional 30,000m2 of space to accommodate increased passenger numbers, together with a new baggage sort hall, passenger lounges, CIP areas, retail areas, combined search area, baggage reclaim and infrastructure works for new aircraft stands. Bomb blast analysis was used during the design of the structural steel frame of the new terminal. All the new facilities were built without adverse impact on the daily operations of the airport.
- The £10 million Stand 7 Infill project involved building a two storey (designed for three) terminal extension to increase the baggage hall area by 50% and provide more retail space. The scheme, completed in 2004, also included remodelling existing aircraft stands and providing new fixed links and passenger airbridges to improve access to aircraft. Halcrow also coordinated an enabling works package to divert underground services clear of the new building footprint and provide a new pit and duct system for future developments. The project was completed ahead of programme and budget.
- The South East Pier project, constructed in 2006, is the first phase of a new 350m long pier to serve new aircraft stands. The 125m long x 18m wide two storey first phase provides six boarding gates, passenger areas, and retail facilities on the first floor, and airline ramp accommodation on the ground floor. The £20 million pier is connected to the main terminal building by a 250m long connector, which was designed to allow for construction of a future Edinburgh Airport Rail Link.
- The Edinburgh Airport Departure Lounge Extension is the latest phase in the major development strategy for Edinburgh Airport to handle growth up to 13 million passengers per year. The £42m project has been carried out in phases and the new Departure Lounge was opened in November 2009. The remaining phases which include relocation of security search and reconfiguration of landside retail facilities will be complete by end of 2010. The Departure Lounge Extension is a two storey extension creating an additional 5500m2 of space to accommodate additional retail facilities, new restaurants, additional passenger lounge facilities and a new CIP Lounge for British Airways.
The extension towards the existing aircraft stands and built over the Head of Stand road and baggage hall entrances required careful construction phasing to avoid impact on the daily operations of the airport. An enabling works package was undertaken to carry out structural alterations to the existing terminal buildings prior to the construction of the new extension. Another project undertaken prior to the departure lounge extension commencing provided additional gates at the South East Pier whilst the existing gates within the lounge were closed during the construction of the extension.