HVAC & Climate Systems installations at Zayed International Airport (AUH)

Terminal HVAC in a Gulf climate is an extreme-duty engineering problem: cooling 200,000 m² of glass-fronted space to 22 °C against 48 °C outdoor air and 85% apron humidity, while moving millions of m³ of filtered air through security and hold rooms. The category includes centrifugal and magnetic-bearing chillers, district cooling interfaces, AHUs, FCUs, displacement ventilation, building-management systems, and the Pre-Conditioned Air (PCA) units that bridge-cool parked aircraft. Energy performance is the biggest single lever on a Gulf airport's OpEx and carbon footprint.

Renamed in 2024 in honour of the UAE's founding father, Zayed International announced itself to the world with Terminal A — a sculptural, light-flooded building the size of 27 football pitches, opened the same year. Home to Etihad's Greenliner fleet, the airport is Abu Dhabi's statement that capital-of-culture ambitions demand capital-of-aviation infrastructure. Passenger volumes surged to 28.8 million in 2024 as Etihad accelerated a 170-aircraft fleet plan.