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Terminals don't close for your construction programme.

200,000 sqm of floor plate, specialist systems from five different vendors, and passengers walking through the construction zone. Your coordination team is managing zone boundaries on spreadsheets while the terminal stays live. We prove every zone boundary in 3D before construction meets live operations, then release the build zone-by-zone, package-by-package.

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Airport terminal coordination — concourse MEP, baggage handling, boarding bridges and airside interfaces resolved zone-by-zone
Dubai Aviation EngineeringAuthority
DAEPAuthority
AECOMConsultant
DARConsultant
ArupConsultant
PARSONSConsultant
ALECMain Contractor
INNOVOMain Contractor
SSHConsultant
ALEMCOMEP Specialist
VANDERLANDEBaggage Specialist
SITAIT / Systems
Dubai Aviation EngineeringAuthority
DAEPAuthority
AECOMConsultant
DARConsultant
ArupConsultant
PARSONSConsultant
ALECMain Contractor
INNOVOMain Contractor
SSHConsultant
ALEMCOMEP Specialist
VANDERLANDEBaggage Specialist
SITAIT / Systems
Terminal coordination

Prove every zone boundary in 3D before construction meets live operations

Four coordination layers where terminal scale, specialist systems, and passenger safety intersect.

What it is
What it delivers
Terminal Coordination

Vast column-free spans with dense MEP zones above ceilings and below raised floors. Structural, mechanical, electrical, and specialist systems coordinated across departure, arrival, and transfer zones.

Your passenger flow geometry and services routing are resolved together from the start, preventing costly rework once the terminal scale takes over.

Specialist Systems

Baggage handling, security screening, and flight information displays running through the terminal on dedicated routes. Vendors who rarely coordinate with each other, modelled together with spatial reservations, structural supports, and MEP interfaces clash-detected.

Every specialist system is confirmed clash-free before installation, protecting your schedule and preventing mid-construction system relocations.

Airside & Landside Interface

Apron-level structures, boarding bridges, fuel systems, and ground services equipment interfacing with the terminal at gate positions. Structural connections, fire separation, and services penetrations coordinated per gate.

Your airside and landside are resolved at every connection point, ensuring gates are flight-ready and critical systems secured before passengers board.

Phased Construction Under Live Operations

Airport expansions and refurbishments happening while the terminal stays operational. Model structured for phased delivery with clear construction zone boundaries, temporary works provisions, and live-side protection measures coordinated in 3D.

Your construction zone boundaries and live-side protection are verified in 3D, keeping passengers safe and operations uninterrupted through every phase of the build.

What we deliver

From design to operations-ready handover
One team.

Three stages. Click any to expand the deliverables and BIM requirements at that stage.

Terminal MEP, specialist systems and airside interfaces resolved as one federated environment before tender. Zones, gates and vendor packages locked at LOD 300 so the design that goes out for procurement is the design that gets built.

Key Processes

Terminal MEP coordination

Dense services zones above ceilings and below raised floors resolved across all terminal zones, departures, arrivals and transfer levels.

Specialist system integration

Baggage handling, security and FIDS modelled and coordinated within the federated environment with the rest of the design.

Airside interface management

Gate-level connections between terminal and airside infrastructure verified per position, boarding bridges, fuel, ground services.

Deliverables

  • Federated terminal models (LOD 300)
  • Specialist system spatial reservation models
  • Airside interface coordination reports
  • Passenger flow and services integration models
  • Coordinated GA and tender drawings

BIM Requirements

Terminal BEP & zoned CDE

Execution plan covers baggage, specialist MEP, airside interfaces and phased construction. CDE file structure mirrors terminal zones, landside/airside boundaries and specialist scopes.

LOD by operations phase

Level of detail tied to design, procurement, phased construction and handover milestones, not generic project stages.

Information exchange

IFC 4.0 validated through Solibri before CDE data drops. Naming via Uniclass 2015 with terminal-zone and gate extensions.

Construction sequenced against flight operations with zone-by-zone handover. Live-side protection and temporary works coordinated in 3D. Each terminal zone released as an independent coordinated package.

Key Processes

Live operations phasing

Construction sequenced against flight operations with zone-by-zone handover, passengers, baggage and ground crew protected through every phase.

Temporary works coordination

Live-side protection and construction boundaries confirmed in 3D. Hoardings, decanting routes and temporary services modelled against the live terminal.

Zone-by-zone package release

Each terminal zone issued as an independent coordinated package so specialist trades can work in parallel without colliding.

Deliverables

  • Zone-by-zone construction packages
  • Clash detection reports per terminal zone
  • Live operations phasing models
  • Temporary works coordination
  • Specialist system installation coordination

BIM Requirements

4D phasing review

Construction sequence linked to flight schedule and zone closure windows. Reviewed weekly against actual progress on site.

Clash cycle

Federation reviews per zone with issues tracked in BIM Track to closure. Baggage and security routes audited at every cycle.

Synchro linking

Model objects mapped to programme activities with float, dependencies and live-operations constraints attached.

Asset classification from Stage 2 so the FM team inherits tens of thousands of assets across MEP, life safety, baggage, IT and specialist systems, verified, complete, ready to run. The airport opens with full asset intelligence.

Key Processes

Asset classification from Stage 2

Tens of thousands of assets across MEP, life safety, baggage, IT and specialist systems classified and captured from project start, not retrofitted at handover.

Operations-ready COBie dataset

Asset data structured from Stage 2 so your FM team receives verified, complete intelligence at handover, not a scramble in the final months.

Validated handover package

FM team takes over with full asset visibility, maintenance protocols, and specialist system documentation integrated and ready to run.

Deliverables

  • As-built models per terminal zone
  • COBie asset data at scale (MEP, IT, baggage, life safety)
  • Specialist system documentation
  • FM-ready operations dataset
  • EIR compliance validation reports

BIM Requirements

COBie validation

Asset data audited against the EIR's information requirement schedule, per zone, per specialist system.

IFC final drop

IFC 4.0 federation deposited in CDE with EIR sign-off attached. Vendor specialist data normalised against the federation.

FM system handshake

Asset data mapped to operator CAFM / EAM schema before transfer. Specialist vendor schemas reconciled at the same time.

Services we apply

Six services. One delivery system

Every service we apply to a terminal runs through the same standard, zone-by-zone coordination, specialist system integration, phased construction under live operations, FM-ready handover at scale.

Production

BIM Delivery

Terminal MEP, baggage, security, FIDS and airside interfaces coordinated as one federated environment before tender.

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Programme & cost

Virtual Design & Construction

4D phasing against the live flight schedule. 5D cost tracked across terminal zones, specialist systems and airside work.

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Governance

Information Management

Zoned CDE across operator, authority, airline and vendor packages. ISO 19650 enforced across every appointed party.

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Lifecycle

Digital Twins

Tens of thousands of assets structured for FM at scale, MEP, life safety, baggage, IT and specialist systems, ready to run.

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Quantities

QTO & Cost

Quantities extracted per zone, per gate, per vendor package. A BOQ that survives the scale of the programme.

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Verification

As-Built Documentation

LiDAR scan-to-BIM across live and decanted zones. As-built verified against installed conditions, zone-by-zone.

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Aviation & major infrastructure

Terminals and infrastructure we've coordinated

Aviation and adjacent major-infrastructure programmes where multi-stakeholder coordination and phased construction under live operations are the binding constraint.

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Terminal BEP, zoned CDE structure, gate-level LOIN, specialist-vendor RACI and the phased-handover MIDP — the same working set we issue on a live terminal engagement.
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