| Project Detail |
Immense and sophisticated The new airport initially accommodates 24 million passengers and 750,000 metric tons of cargo annually. It features, among other facilities: two of the longest commercial runways in the world a control tower some 85 meters (about 280 feet) tall a striking passenger terminal of nearly 5.5 million square feet (some 510,000 square meters) with 40 gates a separate terminal for the Emir of Qatar a general aviation terminal a cargo terminal a 150,000-square-meter (1.6 million-square-foot) aircraft maintenance center one of the world’s largest airport catering facilities state-of-the art air-traffic-control equipment and security systems |
