Airport Terminals

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Modern terminals facilitate the flow of passengers and their baggage to and from the aircraft. Technical services have a serious impact on the architectural lay-out: technical plant and baggage handling facilities may occupy up to 30% of the total floor area. That is why technical planning is required in an early stage of conceptual design. Furthermore, terminal lay-outs shall be flexible, because the only certainty you have is that current requirements will change in the future.

Recent changes are:

• Full segregation of arrival and departure passengers
• Mandatory 100% Hold Baggage screening
• Baggage Reconciliation
  

On-going developments are:

• E-ticketing
• Self Service Check-in, Internet Check-in
• RFID tracing of bags and passengers
• Biometric security screening
  

Our expertise includes:

• Baggage Handling Systems, with in-line security screening, baggage sorting and early baggage storage
• Information and Communication systems, usually with a common network for voice, video and data communication and dedicated special systems for passenger information, terminal operations, security and facility management