[Article] Site chosen for second terminal at Dublin Airport

Victor

http://www.thepost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS-qqqs=news-qqqid=8078-qqqx=1.asp

Site chosen for second terminal at Dublin Airport
18 September 2005 By Pat Leahy and Niamh Connolly

The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) will this week announce plans to build a second terminal south of the existing terminal, in the area currently occupied by rental cars.

The new terminal is promised for 2009.The DAA has been consulting airlines on the second terminal plan since earlier this summer.

It will announce on Tuesday that it intends to proceed with the design, planning and costing.

Tenders have already been invited for the building. It is also expected that a decision will be announced to proceed with a new Pier D.

Minister Martin Cullen announced at the beginning of the summer that the government had authorised the building of a second terminal - to be owned by the Dublin Airport Authority - and an extension to the existing terminal.

Tánaiste Mary Harney and the Progressive Democrats wanted the private sector to run the project, and a row on the issue led to tensions in the cabinet. A compromise deal provided for the private sector to tender, as well as DAA, to operate the facility.

Authority chairman Gary McGann is believed to support the latest DAA proposal, as it entails less disruption to passengers and airlines.

North Dublin Fianna Fáil backbenchers were opposed to the north apron site, which involved demolishing multi-storey car parks, the aircraft hangars of SR Technics and other buildings at an estimated cost of €128 million.

The new plan may involve relocating Corballis House, a protected building, to a new site at the airport. Transport minister Martin Cullen has promised a “triple safeguard'‘ of “consultation-verification-regulation'‘ on the new terminal.

The DAA has completed the consultation phase, and final costings and specifications must now be verified by independent experts. Pier D is scheduled to be completed by 2007.

gobdaw

"The new plan may involve relocating Corballis House, a protected building, to a new site at the airport. "

Could it not be retained within the proposed new building envelope, as was done with protected structure at the extension to the National Art Gallery on Dublin's Clare Street?

murphaph

gobdaw wrote:

Could it not be retained within the proposed new building envelope, as was done with protected structure at the extension to the National Art Gallery on Dublin's Clare Street?

Naaaahhhh, that's far too imaginative for the zombies in AerRianta, I mean DAA. We'll come to regret not being bold and developing to the west of the existing airport, between the two parallel east-west runways. McEvaddy has the right idea.

Maskhadov

Has anyone got a picture of how Dublin Airport will grow over the next 10 years, with the new terminal on it and Mc Evadys new terminal and the new runway ?

Will the new infastrucutre be built properly this time ?? I read in the Sunday Tribune that there are plans to convert the basement of Dublin Airport into departures. Is this really wise with plans for a metro ?? I thought that would be a logical stopping off point seeing it was orignally designed for a train.

Victor

The layout, if the DAA proposals go ahead (parallel runway + terminal expansion), it should be something like this.

Maskhadov

Thanks a million Victor. The only bit that looks right in that picture is the terminal at the bottom. The rest looks like it was designed and built in Timbuku. Bertie A Hern was right, the Dublin Airport is a diaster.

Does Mc Evaddys proposed new terminal lie somewhere near the new run way ?