HKIA, Midfield expansion on schedule

Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA) announced that the Midfield Development at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) reached a milestone today with the concourse’s topping-out ceremony, marking solid progress toward the project’s targeted completion by end-2015.

In his address, Mr Lo said, “The Midfield expansion will come just in time to help HKIA meet its faster-than-expected traffic growth. With the completion of the new passenger concourse, HKIA will be able to serve an additional 10 million passengers a year.”

Located west of Terminal 1, between the two existing runways, the 105,000-square-metre, five-level Midfield Concourse is a core part of HKIA’s Midfield Development. The concourse will be equipped with 20 new aircraft parking stands, and passengers will be able to access it from Terminal 1 via an extended automated people mover. Begun in 2011, the development’s construction is within a budget of more than HK$10 billion and has so far created over 2,000 jobs.

In line with the AA’s commitment to make HKIA one of the world’s greenest airports, the new Midfield Concourse is being built according to an environmentally friendly design with more than 35 green features across its construction and operational aspects. The facility will become one of the first buildings in Hong Kong to be certified with the BEAM Plus Gold Standard, an industry-wide environmental assessment scheme for buildings that is recognised by the Hong Kong Green Building Council. Low-energy lighting systems, high-performance glazing panels, solar shading and north-facing skylights have been incorporated in the building’s design, and the principles of reusing and recycling will be adopted in its day-to-day operations wherever possible.

Source and image: HKIA