Tim Mein Architects

MEIN

Auckland New Zealand Instagram


+64 21 376369

Architect experienced in the design of airport terminals and airside buildings.

LHR

London Heathrow T3

SYD

Sydney International Airport

SYD

Sydney Domestic T3

YYC

Calgary International Airport

HKG

Hong Kong International Airport

CXI

Cassidy International Airport

YQR

Regina International Airport

DBO

Dubbo Airport

PER

Perth International Airport

TBU

Fua’amotu International Airport

VAV

Lupepau’u Airport

FUN

Funafuti International Airport

IUE

Niue International Airport

TRG

Tauranga Airport

BHE

Blenheim Airport

DOH

New Doha International Airport

BIN

Bamyan Airport

AKL

Auckland International Airport

ZQN

Queenstown International Airport

CHC

Christchurch International Airport

BOM

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Mumbai T2

TRW

Bonriki International Airport

ROT

Rotorua Airport

VLI

Bauerfield International Airport

TAH

Whitegrass International Airport

MUA

Munda International Airport







Design Services

Terminal Architecture & Planning

  • 3D Visualisation
  • Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) Building Design
  • Car Park and Road System Planning
  • Car Park Building Design
  • Contract Documentation
  • Drawings and Specifications
  • Landside Precinct Planning
  • Local Authority Building Consents
  • Self Service Passenger Processing
  • Self Service Passenger Processing
  • Terminal Concept Design
  • Terminal Detail Design
  • Terminal Expansion and Redevelopment
  • Terminal Master Planning
  • Terminal Works Staging Plans

Terminal Detail Design

  • Bag Makeup
  • Bag Reclaim
  • Check-in
  • Concourses and Gate lounges
  • Duty Free Concession Planning
  • Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) Design
  • Fixed Links and Aerobridges
  • Hold Bag Screening
  • Passport Control
  • Retail and Food and Beverage Planning
  • Security Screening
  • Security Screening & Full Body Scanners
  • Self-service Check-in & Border Control
  • Signage & Wayfinding
  • Terminal Furniture

Construction Stage Services

  • Building Contract Administration
  • Building Contract Advice
  • Defects Inspections
  • Design and Build Services
  • Issue For Construction IFC Drawings and Specifications
  • Payment Administration
  • Procurement Management
  • Quality Control Inspections
  • Shop Drawing Review
  • Site Inspections
  • Tender/Bid Evaluation
  • Tender/Bid Process

Terminal Analysis and Review

  • Busy Hour Passenger Forecasts
  • ICAO Regulatory Compliance
  • Peer Review
  • Terminal Area Calculations
  • Terminal Capacity Analysis
  • Terminal Condition Inspections
  • Terminal Design Briefs
  • Terminal Planning Parameters
  • Terminal Safety Review
  • Terminal Security Review

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Established in 2007 Tim Mein Architects undertakes diverse projects including residential, commercial and aviation.

 
Unit 302 - Ironbank
150 Karangahape Road
Auckland 1010
New Zealand
 
+64 21 376369
tim@meinarchitects.co.nz

Projects

Rotorua Airport Terminal Redevelopment - New Zealand

21.03.24

Tim Mein Architects (TMA) was architect for the $5.10 million Rotorua Airport terminal redevelopment, designed for a 2030 Peak Hour of 234 passengers.

The design comprised a full upgrade and redevelopment of both the arrivals and departures wings of the terminal and construction of a new glazed link connection. The terminal redevelopment includes the new AVSEC security screening room, queue zone and segregated departures lounge with a glazed landside to airside partition.

TMA provided the concept design and full detail design documentation including For Construction drawings & specifications.

The sustainability strategy was to retain & re-use the existing terminal buildings, adding new interiors with re-planned passenger and bag processing areas. The upgrades extend the terminal’s usable life & retain the embodied carbon in the existing terminal building, reducing overall project emissions.

Entries, exits and transition spaces were a key focus of the design. TMA designed details in timber, drawing reference from Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe (Lake Rotorua), Wai (water) movement and clarity and Kōura (freshwater crayfish). Two NZ grown timber species were used, NZ native Totara and Abodowood thermally modified pine. The terminal opened in May 2020.

Client: Rotorua Airport Ltd

Architect: Tim Mein Architects

Consultants: RDT, Cosgroves, GHD & RLB

Contractor: Marra Construction

Photographer: Sam Hartnett

Cassidy International Airport – Kiritimati Island, Kiribati

22.10.19

The new terminal at Cassidy International Airport was officially opened on May 29th 2019.

The terminal design features a glulam timber roof structure and timber secondary framing designed to be prefabricated off site. The terminal has a clear finished natural hardwood ceiling. All materials and equipment for the project were transported to the remote Kiritimati Atoll site in shipping containers.

Natural light to the terminal interior is provided by the translucent lineal skylight, translucent end walls and extensive use of operable glass louvres.

The glass louvres on opposing walls together with the lineal roof ridge vent, and fans provide natural ventilation to the terminal interior. The roof construction is highly insulated to reduce heat gain from solar radiation. Rainwater is collected from the 1,375m² roof and stored in the new ground mounted water tank.

The new terminal provides the processing capacity and security screening required to cater for international and domestic Code C jet operations. Kiritimati Atoll is currently serviced by Fiji Airways Boeing 737-800’s. The terminal design includes transit passenger screening, to comply with US Transport Security Administration (TSA) requirements for US bound flights. Given the low frequency of flights to Kiritimati Tim Mein Architects provided a relatively compact terminal plan of 800m², saving on terminal area required by utilising covered outdoor spaces for passenger queue areas and landside public waiting areas.

In 2020 Air Kiribati will take delivery of two Embraer 190 E2 jets, with the potential for direct domestic jet services between Cassidy Airport, and Bonriki Airport 3,300km to the west on Kiribati’s South Tarawa Island.

Tim Mein Architects (TMA), in collaboration with the Kiribati Ministry of Communications, Transport and Tourism Development (MCTTD), Aecom Engineers, the TFSU and The World Bank, completed the design, the bid drawings and specifications for the project

Client: The Kiribati Ministry of Communications, Transport and Tourism Development (MCTTD),

Funding: The World Bank

Architects: Tim Mein Architects (TMA) – Tim Mein, Catherine Doo & Ross Aitken

Engineers: Aecom

Supervision Consultant: Sir Frederick Snow & Partners

Contractor: CCB Envico

 

Photography: GC

Bonriki International Airport – South Tarawa, Kiribati

21.09.15

Tim Mein Architects (TMA), in collaboration with the Kiribati Ministry of Communications, Transport and Tourism Development (MCTTD), AECOM Engineers, the TFSU and The World Bank, have completed the design, bid drawings and specifications for the terminal upgrade at Bonriki International Airport (TRW).

The terminal design expands all passenger processes and provides faster processing. Terminal designer TMA employed a strategy of adaptive re-use, upgrading and expanding the existing terminal building to extend its serviceable life.

ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS) for passenger segregation and security are met by building breathable interior security screens and segregated passenger processing pods within the existing terminal volume. A new check-in hall, with custom designed check-in desks and hold bag screening search tables, is located between the existing departures and arrivals pavilions. TMAs landside road design relocates the two lane drop-off road to create a large outdoor public area. The airside design includes a new indoor-outdoor passport control queue zone using triple sliding doors. The existing terminal galvanised steel structure is strengthened with new structural bolts and column baseplates throughout and is to be protected with a new corrosion resistant paint finish. Existing hardwood roof purlins, ventilation louvres and wall cladding are refurbished and restored with oil based wood stain finish.

Rainfall will be collected and stored in two new landside water tanks for airport and community use. New gutters and storm water drainage systems are provided throughout. The design provides enhanced natural ventilation to minimise energy use. Selected external walls are removed to be replaced by operable glass louvres, increasing cross ventilation and natural light. The new insulated check-in hall roof has wide overhanging eaves to shade the interior, minimise solar heat gain and reduce internal air temperatures. All hardwood required for the terminal upgrade will be sourced from recycled buildings or from sustainable timber plantations.

The terminal is designed to cater for Code C international operations including Boeing 737-800 or equivalent aircraft, as well as the busy domestic turboprop schedule. A new security screening X-Ray is provided to speed up processing of departing passengers. On the arrivals side five new inbound passport control desks, a new bag reclaim conveyor and an enlarged customs and quarantine area are proposed. The terminal design references Kiribati architecture, the atoll environment and cultural artefacts. The design of the new landside shade sail comprises a folded, triangulated form influenced by traditional canoe sail forms and the Teunan shark tooth spear. Colours used in the terminal design were drawn from the Tarawa atoll and landscape.

The terminal design is the first stage of terminal expansion leading to construction of the TMA designed 15 Year Terminal Master Plan.

Client: The Kiribati Ministry of Communications, Transport and Tourism Development (MCTTD)
Funding: The World Bank
Terminal Architects: Tim Mein Architects
Project Manager: Aree Redfern Building
Engineers/Lead Consultant: AECOM

Funafuti International Airport - Tuvalu

15.04.15

Tim Mein Architects in collaboration with the Tuvalu Ministry of Communications and Transport (MCT) as well as the TFSU and The World Bank have completed the airport terminal design, bid drawings and specifications for the new Funafuti International Airport (FUN) Terminal. The Client and the design team worked closely together throughout the project, from preparing terminal concept options through to refining the Clients preferred terminal layout. The new Funafuti International Airport Terminal is part of the Pacific Aviation Investment Program (PAIP), supported by the World Bank. The Program includes neighbouring countries such as Tonga, Kiribati, Samoa and Vanuatu and will include others in the future. The main objectives of the PAIP are to improve the safety, security, efficiency, management and environmental sustainability of the Airports in the Program.

Tim Mein Architects also designed the two PAIP terminal projects in Tonga, TBU and VAV, and the two PAIP terminal projects in Kiribati, TRW and CXI. Funafuti International Airport is located in the central, densely populated part of the atoll, directly opposite the Tuvalu Government Building. The compact, functional terminal plan is designed to cater for fifty seat international turboprop operations. The open plan airport terminal concept, with a single-span glulam timber roof structure provides the flexibility to adapt and change the terminal interior and to extend the building to the south. The terminal is designed to be used by community groups when not in use for aircraft operations.

The plan is conceived as a long, rectangular pavilion with operable glass louvres to maximise natural cross ventilation. A translucent, ventilating roof ridge releases warm air from the roof space and provides natural light to the centre of the terminal. The building roof form is based on the Tuvalu Falekaupule (meeting house) building type.

The wide overhanging roof is highly insulated to minimise solar heat gain and is designed for future installation of a photovoltaic panel array. The Tuvalu government intends to generate 100% of energy requirements from renewable sources within twenty years. In addition, rainfall will be collected from the whole roof and stored in a new reinforced concrete water tank below the terminal providing a significant new water reserve for the atoll. The terminal floor level is elevated in response to Funafuti atolls low lying topography, as a defence against rising sea levels. Water saving toilets and tapware have been selected and the terminal light fittings are low energy LED.

The roof, comprising a glulam timber structure and recycled Australian Spotted Gum hardwood timber ceiling, appears to float above the terminal spaces below. Perforated aluminium screens, in a design pattern based on Tuvalu coral geometries, provide the ICAO required physical security barriers and maximise natural ventilation.

Client: The Ministry of Communications and Transport
Funding: The World Bank Terminal
Architects: Tim Mein Architects
Project Manager: Charles Nepia (TFSU)
Lead Consultant, Pavement Engineers and Building Engineers: AECOM

Fua'amotu International Airport Stage 1 Terminal Upgrade - Arrivals Redevelopment - Tonga

13.12.13

Tim Mein Architects have completed Concept Designs for the World Bank funded terminal expansion and upgrade project at Fua'amotu International Airport, Tonga.

The TBU terminal works are part of the Pacific Aviation Investment Program (PAIP). The main objective of the PAIP is to upgrade existing airport facilities in Tonga, Kiribati and Tuvalu and to support continued sustainable growth of international air transport services in the Pacific region TMA is providing full terminal planning and architectural services for the project including the Terminal Condition Report, Security Review, Terminal Capacity Analysis, Passenger Forecasts, the 2024 Terminal Master Plan, the Stage 1 Terminal Concept Design, Tender (Bid) drawings and specifications, Contract Documentation, Construction Stage Services and Quality Control.

The TBU Stage 1 terminal works provide significantly increased arrivals passenger and bag processing capacity. The works include a new inbound passport control hall, an enlarged bag reclaim hall, a new bag reclaim conveyor and a redeveloped customs and quarantine processing area. A new walk through Duty Free concession is located at the first point of entry to the terminal.

The economic terminal upgrade is achieved by re-planning underutilised areas within the existing terminal roof line and by providing an airside addition to accommodate a new airside bag hall and the Duty Free concession. In addition, TMA has designed the TBU Terminal Master Plan which provides the blueprint for the ultimate terminal expansion, designed to cater for the forecast 2024 peak hour arriving and departing passengers.

Client: Tonga Airports Limited Funding: The World Bank Terminal
Architects: Tim Mein Architects
Lead Consultant, Pavement Engineers and Building
Engineers: AECOM