How much did Kuala Lumpur International Airport cost to build?
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is the main airport of Malaysia at Sepang, on a site of 100 square kilometres designed by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, whose phase one with a main terminal of 241,000 square metres, one satellite terminal and two runways for 25 million passengers a year was built from a groundbreaking on 1 June 1993 and officially inaugurated on 27 June 1998 (operations began on 28 June). Airport Technology wrote that it was completed in four and a half years with round-the-clock work at a cost of about 3.5 billion US dollars.
Reported project cost
$3.5 billion
Cost basis: 1998
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Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost1998
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Key dimensions
- Floor areaAirport Technology
- 241,000 m²
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