SINGAPORE — As hundreds gathered at Changi Airport on May 14 for the groundbreaking of the new Terminal 5, Hirotsugu Yamaguchi spotted many familiar faces. Engineers, architects and project managers from around the world had returned, including those he worked with on earlier terminals.
“It felt like a big reunion of the world’s airport builders,” said Yamaguchi, a senior adviser at Takenaka, one of Japan’s largest construction companies and the designer of Terminal 4, which was completed in 2016. The company has been involved in most of Changi’s terminal projects since Singapore’s aviation gateway opened over four decades ago.
