Inside the Greenfield Project

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Posted  Saturday, August 11  2012 at  23:30

The Greenfield Terminal shall be a new terminal building capable of handling 12 million passengers every year and to raise the overall capacity of JKIA to 20 million passengers a year.

It is estimated to cost $654 million (about Sh56 billion) and is designed to ward off competition from other countries targeting the JKIA market.

The review of the master plan was completed in February 2011.

“In reviewing the master plan, traffic forecasts were used as a basis for planning of facilities. In particular, Kenya Airways business development strategy in terms of new route development, fleet acquisition, and JKIA hub development through linking of major African cities to the rest of the world through JKIA were considered in the forecast,” says a Cabinet paper seen by the Sunday Nation.

The document notes that other airports in the region – Addis Ababa, Kigali and South Africa – have embarked on ambitious plans for airport improvement targeting the JKIA market.

“Ethiopia has completed a new airport terminal which has already taken away many passengers from JKIA, particularly transit passengers,” the Cabinet paper says.

According to the document, the project is designed to have 50 international and 10 domestic check-in positions; 32 contact and eight remote gates and associated apron with 45 aircraft stands and linking taxiways.

Aside from the new facilities, the terminal would have two hotels, one of which would be accessible to non-passengers and another which would be accessible only to those in transit.

The main terminal building will be a state-of-the-art structure with four levels.

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The basement will be used for baggage handling and sorting, while the ground floor will comprise the arrival hall which would have facilities such as customs and security screening.

The first floor would comprise immigration offices, security screening, port health offices, detention rooms and police offices. The second floor would comprise a check-in hall while the fourth floor would comprise a transit hotel, airline lounges and apron control towers.

The project also comprises an elevated roadway which would include a sidewalk, four driving lanes and three drop off lanes.

The access road to the new terminal would be six lanes. It would also have a railway terminal.

It would also comprise government VIP lounges, duty free shops, airport administration offices, airport operations control centre, smoking areas, quiet areas, children’s play areas and religious prayer rooms.

The project also comprises equipping the building with state-of-the-art telephone systems, computer operations, fire alarm and detection system, closed circuit television surveillance systems, flight information display systems and public address systems.

Utilities include water supply, waste water collection, chilled water supply, emergency power back up and telecommunications.