Summary Case Study:

King Abdulaziz International Airport - Jeddah

Fire Protection Systems Design

Key Data:

• Major new airport terminal extension in Jeddah
• Over 14 km of service tunnels, ancillary buildings and infrastructure to support the terminal
• New energy centres for all central services provision
• $8 Billion project constructed by SBG
• Fully sprinkler protected with in excess of 60,000 sprinkler heads

The Scheme:

The scheme consisted of providing a new large terminal building to the existing Jeddah airport increasing the capacity of the facility to enable the introduction of hub services. In addition to the main terminal building services the project incorporates an airside hotel, over 14 km of utility tunnels containing all services distribution services, new energy centre buildings for cooling / power / water services, foul and grey water drainage pumping stations, fresh and grey water pumping stations and a fuel storage /management centre.

Our Role:

Our role consisted of designing the fire protection systems throughout the project including; concept design, detailed design and full hydraulic calculations, answering all contractors’ technical queries and representing our client ‘Faithful + Gould / Atkins as a named specialist sub-consultant. We produced in excess of 300 no CAD design drawings over the scheme to our client’s drawing and document specification and attended key client meetings.

Challenges and Collaboration:

Our design involvement with the scheme was successfully completed to the clients’ satisfaction. The size of this scheme and volume of drawings and documents to be produced within a minimal timescale was the greatest challenge.