HVAC & Climate Systems installations at King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED)

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.

Jeddah is the gateway to Makkah — and few airports carry such spiritual and logistical weight in a single footprint. Its Hajj Terminal, a Skidmore Owings & Merrill marvel of tented fibreglass, has moved pilgrims for four decades while the new Terminal 1 by HOK now handles Saudia's widebody flows. 2024 traffic climbed to 49.1 million as the Kingdom chases a goal of 150 million pilgrims and tourists a year by 2030.