Airport Master Planning & Phasing
Whole-airfield master planning and phased delivery — Stansted lineage carried into Riyadh KSAU and Amaala.
Foster + Partners has master-planned airports continuously since Stansted Terminal 1 (1991) — the project that introduced the modular under-roof terminal model later replicated at Beijing T3, Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok and Mexico City. The practice's master-planning workstream covers airfield geometry, runway alignment, terminal positioning, landside circulation, ground-transport integration and 30-year phasing. In Saudi Arabia the studio is master-planning the new King Salman International Airport (RUH) terminal complex (six runways, six concourses, target 120 mppa by 2030, 185 mppa by 2050) and Amaala airport on the Red Sea coast. Output published in Revit at LOD 350 with airfield-pavement and landside-utility coordination layers.
Key specs
| Typical site area | 20 – 60 km² (greenfield mega-airport) |
| Passenger capacity range | 10 – 185 mppa (modular phasing) |
| Runway count | 1 – 6 (per master plan) |
| BIM standard | Revit LOD 350 |
| Phasing horizon | 30 years |
| Reference deployments | Stansted T1 · Beijing T3 · Riyadh KSAU · Amaala |
| Programme duration (concept → opening) | 8 – 15 years |
| ICAO compliance | Annex 14 Aerodromes |