Dubai, UAE – Emirates Airlines laid the foundation stone on Monday for its new engineering center complex in the Dubai South region. With an investment of $5.1 billion (AED 18.7 billion), it is expected to become the world’s most advanced and modern facility in the field of maintenance, repair and reconstruction.
The China Railway Construction Corporation will implement this strategic project. It is one of the world’s leading companies specializing in developing infrastructure projects. Artelia is responsible for consulting and supervising the project.
Largest steel structure
Emirates’ new engineering centre complex in Dubai South extends over a total area of 1.1 million square metres. It is considered one of the largest buildings in the world in terms of size, and the largest steel structure in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
The complex will also include the first aircraft hangar of its kind in the world capable of maintaining 28 wide-body aircraft at the same time. In addition to two barns designated for painting work.
The most prominent components of this huge project include: the largest aircraft hangar in the world without internal columns with a width of up to 285 meters, and the largest workshop specialized in landing gear maintenance in the world. In addition to an area of 77 thousand square meters allocated for maintenance and repair work.
additional capacity
The project’s components also include a storage and logistics capacity of up to 380,000 square meters, and two advanced paint pits serving the wide-body aircraft fleet. With additional capacity to handle narrow-body aircraft
These technical facilities will be integrated with a modern administrative building dedicated to the Emirates Engineering Centre. It provides 50,000 square meters of office space and 15,000 square meters of training facilities. In addition to a specialized facility to organize and manage access to the airport apron.
Construction work is planned to be completed by mid-2030. In its first phase, the hangar complex will begin providing heavy maintenance services for aircraft. In addition to supporting operations by accommodating some of the operational work transferred from the Emirates Engineering Center at Dubai International Airport.
