Airport passenger terminal facilities present many challenges in terms of their ability to accommodate demand, increasing passenger expectations, technological advances in processing passengers and their baggage, regulatory and security requirements, and aircraft and vehicular movements. Terminal facilities must also be in balance with airfield and ground transportation facilities. Terminal buildings must meet the myriad expectations, requirements, and sometimes extreme peaking patterns of its users, while providing for seamless transition between being dropped off or picked up at terminal curbsides and boarding or disembarking the aircraft.

Terminal plans or designs developed for one airport are not directly applicable to another--each airport has different airline, market, and operating conditions. Terminal improvement programs must also balance the often-conflicting objectives of community pride with the users' ability to pay the ultimate cost of new development. Leigh Fisher Associates is an industry leader in addressing these challenges. We use leading-edge techniques and cutting-edge solutions--and, most importantly, we observe and we listen carefully.

Leigh Fisher Associates assists airport sponsors, the airlines, concessionaires, federal agencies, and other stakeholders in addressing these challenges and achieving consensus for development programs. We assist in the planning and design of passenger terminal facilities; perform demand/capacity analyses of existing facilities; develop planning criteria, space programs, and conceptual plans for new or expanded terminals; and support the design work of architects and engineers by validating design decisions and cost estimates and evaluating passenger flows and accumulations. With other specialized areas of our practice, such as ground transportation and parking planning, airfield and airspace planning, commercial and concessions planning, financial planning, and aviation forecasting, we are able to develop airport terminal expansion plans that work.

Services
-Terminal concept plans
-Space programming
-Design criteria
-Capacity analyses
-Design assistance and support
-Design and build oversight

Representative Projects
-International Gateway to Israel, Ben Gurion International Airport (Tel Aviv)
-Terminal Area Landside Development, Raleigh-Durham International Airport