After several years of debate, the planning for Terminal 2 began in 2005 when the Irish Government directed the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) to build a new terminal at Dublin Airport as part of its Aviation Action Plan. The EUR609 million ($873.5 million) project includes the terminal building, a new pier building as well as upgrades to the internal road network at Dublin Airport and other associated infrastructure. Terminal 2 will be fully operational by November 2010.
Pascall+Watson working in a multi-disciplinary design team alongside Arup and Mace, has designed the terminal at Dublin Airport for DAA. The designs provide for a new 75,000 square meters terminal building, adjacent to the existing Terminal 1, and a 400 meters long 24,000 square meters pier and airfield remodeling works accommodating up to 19 new aircraft stands.
Development of a new terminal, pier and frontage road system will cater for 10-15 million passengers per annum, delivering sufficient capacity to meet the minimum demands at that time. The design makes access routes and passenger flows as intuitive and self evident as possible incorporating clear lines of sight and logical directional flows, to help to guide people through the building.
