Birmingham Eurohub concept and evolution Available to Purchase

Birmingham International Airport (BHX) has been one of the UK's most rapidly growing airports in the past few years. This Paper deals with the market driven Eurohub Terminal that was opened in 1991 and was specifically designed to respond to new style airline operations as air service development in Europe becomes liberalized in the next decade. The project involved an innovative design, which rewrote many established airport terminal planning conventions. The project's joint venture funding also involved both the public and private sectors in new approaches to airport facility provision. In addition, the day to day management of the terminal was to be the responsibility of a major airline, another change to established airport operation and management practices within the UK and Europe. The Paper stresses the fundamental needs for a designt hat had to be adaptable to future, undefined, changes, and the complexity of the interrelation between project concept and design with the method of raising development resources against a demanding project timetable.