How Dublin's new terminal got off to a flying start
Defying the odds to deliver a landmark aviation construction project in Ireland, we created a new transatlantic gateway able to accommodate millions more passengers, while maintaining the full airport operation.
Dublin Airport Terminal 2 Project summary
Client
Dublin Airport Authority
Key partners
Pascall & Watson, Arup, Mercury Engineering
Services provided
Construct, Construction management
Sectors
Locations
Project timeline
- Start date
- January 2006
- End date
- March 2011
Project story
Our client Dublin Airport Authority faced a chronic problem of over-congestion. As a result we were appointed to help meet their two primary success criteria, which were to increase the overall capacity of the airport to 35 million passengers a year, while minimising disruption to people using the airport every day.
With careful planning, innovative use of prefabrication technologies and leadership in mutual cooperation, we were able to successfully deliver the terminal within the challenging 34 month programme.
We helped to devise a sequence of temporary roads and access points to the construction site that didn’t impact on the airport traffic, allowing for business as usual.
Heralded for its unique design, the airport has been called 'a complex beauty’. It was one of the biggest construction projects Ireland has ever seen, and our team rose to the challenge, creating a iconic, modern piece of infrastructure.
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“T2 was built in the heart of a live international airport in a fast-track design and construction programme, which at its peak was Ireland’s largest construction site. The construction programme was affected in a manner that had no impact on day-to-day operations at Dublin, which was a sine qua non for Mace. Mace and other members of the consortium successfully delivered an iconic yet functional and sustainable terminal, which has thus won 12 major awards and is widely praised by passengers and most certainly delivered in excess of our expectations.”