HOK's aviation group will collaborate with HOK's San Francisco office in designing the 140,000-square-metre terminal, an 800-car parking structure, a mosque, a central utility plant and site improvements. Design work is expected to run into 2005.

Bechtel is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) manager on the development, which calls in the first phase for the construction of a 12 million-passenger-a-year facility at a cost of $2,500 million by 2009. The first construction package on the development, covering reclamation, is expected to be issued for tender in the third quarter.