10 October 2024

Changi Airport to break ground on Terminal 5 in 2025

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The Prime Minister of Singapore has announced that construction of Changi Airport’s Terminal 5 (T5) will begin in the first half of 2025.

Speaking at the 40th Anniversary Dinner for the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Lawrence Wong said: “The most important thing we are doing for the next leg of our aviation journey is our investment in T5.”

The PM also revealed that a public exhibition will be held next year to share more of the airport’s plans. Read more in an article published by Passenger Terminal Today

Heatherwick Studio are designing the new terminal with architecture firm KPF. Located within its namesake district of Changi, at the eastern end of Singapore, Terminal 5 will add capacity for about 50 million passengers per year to one of the most celebrated international airports on the planet.

The plans reach far beyond the core needs of transport infrastructure and imagine the space as a social extension of the city itself. Instead of a single monotonous roof under which people are efficiently processed, the terminal will comprise a series of human-scale areas that will be far from the typical airport experience, instead offering something much more human and homely. 

The terminal is targeting Green Mark Platinum Super Low Energy Building as certified by the Building and Construction Authority. To reduce the carbon footprint, solar panels, smart building management systems and district cooling, combined with thermal energy storage, will be used. It will also be ready for viable alternative fuels.

Changi T5 will be our third project in Singapore following the Nanyang University Learning Hub, a building designed to encourage spontaneous dialogue and exchange in the digital learning era, and EDEN, an apartment building in the city-state’s historic Newton District.