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The new building has a heat exchanger that revolutionizes the concept of intermodality in transport

Malaga airport opens the T3

Source: Aena23/04/2010

April 23, 2010

On 15 March, the Kings of Spain presided over the inauguration of the new T3 of the Malaga airport, along with the Minister of public works, José Blanco, and the President of the Junta de Andalucía, José Antonio Griñán. The new building, whose works were initiated in 2005, has meant an investment of 409,7 million euros, and will have an operational capability of 30 million passengers a year, 180 check-in counters, 48 gates, 14,000 luggage per hour, 3,700 parking places.

The new Terminal 3 of the airport of Malaga, the work of the architect Bruce S. Fairbanks, is situated as a continuation of the existing by its North facade. This design achieves integrate the three terminals under the conception of single terminal so that users can make a simple and more functional transit.

Terminal T3, with 250,000 square meters approximately, extends northward with a dock for shipment of about 240 metres long, parallel to the aircraft platform. In the atrium that is opening up to the arrivals lobby is lifted the big bet for intermodality: exchanger, a solution at all the possible modes of transport to get to the airport.

Malaga airport is the main airport infrastructure of Andalusia and the fourth in Spain in volume of travellers

Terminal T3 has 250,000 meters, 180 check-in counters, 48 gates.

The main plant devoted to billing lobby and baggage claim Hall

During the works, a tunnel boring machine works for burying of railway.

The main floors of the building processor, with 225 meters of facade on the land side, are destined to the turnover of almost 20,000 square meters lobby, and the baggage claim Hall.

At the level of outputs, 86 new counters (2 of them for special luggage) will be distributed in two areas and 15 carrying machines. An area of centralized control of security, with 9 security filters, gives way to a large shopping plaza which leads to the dam of boarding.

Arrivals level will feature 11 racetracks of baggage claim (9 European Union and 2 not European Union) and a Hippodrome of special baggage.

In the rest of plants of the new terminal building will be located at the offices and the new Sate (automated system of treatment of luggage), which has a capacity of processing will be 7,500 baggage/hour, with a time of 3 minutes approximately.

Dike D has 20 Gates: 12 contact positions assisted by gateway and remote 8

New dike D

Extreme rolling corridor of the D. Dyke

With a width of 34 metres and about 240 metres long, the 20 gates of the dam will allow access to the aircraft by telescopic gateways (12) or remote (8). In total, about 10,300 square meters which are born in the previous processor building. The doors will be destined for Schengen traffic and non-EU Schengen. The 4-door at the end of the dam will have flexible use for non-Schengen traffic.

The work in figures

T3 began his work in 2005 and has meant an investment of 409,7 million euros. It has a cover of 117 pyramidal shape domes and about 250,000 square meters and also has a so-called muro-cortina to get more natural lighting contribution. The building will have an operational capability of 30 million per year (9,000 passengers per hour from the current 4,500), 180 check-in counters, 48 gates, 14,000 luggage per hour, 3,700 parking places.

Malaga airport is the main airport infrastructure of Andalusia and the fourth in Spain in volume of travellers, hogging 62% of the traffic of the Andalusian airfields. At the end of the Málaga Plan will extend over an area of 550 acres.

Transport interchange

Transport interchange connects the new terminal T3, bus station, the pedestrian access to parking lots P1 and P2, and soon, the nearby railway station.

All the options of transport by land and air, to the extent of the hand from a single point

This knot of communications is a key to the success of the future airport, as it facilitates the connection of different modes of transport and encourage the global mobility and, therefore, the growth of the airport.

A large public square, opened in the light of the Mediterranean, will be the first users of public transport to see. Levels of arrivals and departures of the exchanger is accessed through vertical communication cores and mechanical ramps. From arrivals accessing the large plaza (Atrium) on the bus station and to the floor of the terminal arrivals. At the level of outputs of the exchanger, cores communicate with the terminal through gateways, in addition, linking to car parks.

View interior exchanger core from ground floor.

Thus passenger can comfortably access the means of transport you prefer through a bus station, the area of taxis, gateways to the parking of private vehicles and a new railway station, where comes the Málaga-Fuengirola nearby. With the exchanger, Malaga airport becomes one of the airports pioneers in promoting intermodality in transport.

Parking

Malaga airport will have two public car parks totaling approximately 3,700 seats. The P2 has 1,200 seats. The P1, a new seven-storey building, has 2,500 beds between nearly 70,000 square meters. This new car park, erected at the entrance of the airport, is connected by the North to the P2.