We were the lead airside engineer for the new terminal at Lester B Pearson Airport

Hatch Mott MacDonald (Mott MacDonald’s North America business) is the civil and airside engineer responsible for designing and facilitating the construction of the new passenger terminal building at Lester B Pearson International Airport (LBPIA) in Toronto, Canada.

The terminal redevelopment is part of a total makeover for the airport and consists of new passenger and cargo terminals, expanded airfield infrastructure and better public access. The whole project is one of the largest airport undertakings in North America at over C$4.4 billion in capital costs.

The centrepiece of the development is the new passenger terminal complex replacing Terminals 1 and 2. The new, 300,000m² terminal consists of 80 aircraft stands and associated works. It will initially provide annual passenger capacity of 35 million and be readily expandable to service future growth.

Project highlights have included the demolition and decommissioning of Terminals 1 and 2, the administration building and the cargo area; provision of essential works to ensure terminal operations functioned during construction work, design of the arrivals, departure and service roadways; new taxi lanes, aircraft aprons, ramp areas and airside services; and design of temporary passenger facilities at Terminals 1 and 2.

One aspect of the project that Hatch Mott MacDonald was responsible for – the design for ten elevated frontage roads and 18 egress roads and interchanges for the new terminal building – won the 2001 Award of Merit from the Association of Civil Engineers of Canada.