Gatwick Terminal 6 Extension, UK

To maintain the pier service levels in North Terminal as the airport continues to grow it is required further pier served stands and this will be achieved by building a western extension on Pier 6, almost doubling its size. This will provide more short-haul pier-served stands, ensuring more than 97% of North Terminal passengers can access their aircraft from a pier. The Pier 6 extension is a complex programme of works which involves creating a new A380 stand on Pier 5, to allow for more space around the 80 meters wings of the A380 aircrafts, along with an associated reconfiguration of Quebec taxiway to provide access to the stand. The new Pier 6 extension will provide 8 new stands capable of taking any Code C aircraft and bring into service an existing, but unused, stand (103) to give a total of 17 stands on the pier when completed. Construction of the new A380 stand, stand 103 and the reconfiguration of the Quebec taxiway are the main projects within the extension’s development. The Gatwich Pier 6 Connector, is a new bridge linking the North Terminal to the new Pier 6. A UK first, the a 197m long pier bridge used prefabricated techniques and materials and was moved into position in a single night. The pier bridge spans a live taxiway at a height of 22m, and had to be sufficiently wide and high enough to allow an aircraft the size of a Boeing 747-400 to pass underneath. The acoustic design consisted in a peer review of the Gatwick Airport Terminal 6 Extension acoustic design. The peer review regarded the room acoustics within the Terminal Extension to be suitable for the speech intelligibility targets and the review of the public address&voice alarm design of the new Terminal extension.