B is for .... Burns & McDonnell (Airport Planning Consultants Series)

Burns & McDonnell-based in Kansas City, USA

Note: These companies are some of the large companies that I have come across and does not constitute an endorsement of the companies listed.

A is for adpi, AECOM, Airbiz, ARUP, ATKINS (Airport PlanningConsultants Series)

So I thought it might be helpful to make a list of Airport Planning Consultants that I'm familiar with...the list is by no means exhaustive.

A is for.....

adpi - French Airport Planning Consultant

AECOM - Global network of consultants (not sure where their main aviation office is)

Airbiz - based out of Australia

ARUP

ATKINS

Note: These companies are some of the large companies that I have come across and does not constitute an endorsement of the companies listed.

Brisbane Airport (BNE) Main Runway Resurfacing

Map of Main Runway Resurfacing

Brisbane Airport Main Runway Resurfacing
- Cost A$15m, completed Sep 2012
- replaced the 11 year old asphalt in the touchdown zones in the touchdown zones at either end of the runway
- more than 200,000 work hours and 18,000 tonnes of asphalt
- 6 months of night work, resurfacing work conducted between midnight and 5am up to six nights a week.
- up to 100 personnel and 60 items of plant and equipment per shift

Click here for more information.

Click here to see a 3 min video of the project.  It shows a time lapse video of the resurfacing work.

Source: Brisbane Airport website

Time Lapse video of the resurfacing

Passenger Teminal at Al-Maktoum International Airport, Dubai (DWC)

The Passenger Terminal at Al-Maktoum Airport opened on 27 Oct 13 for commercial passenger service.  The initial capacity of the terminal is 5 million passengers per annum.

Passenger Terminal Map (1st phase)

Source: Dubai Airports website

ACRP Report 96 - Apron Planning and Design Handbook

ACRP has released a report on Aircraft Apron planning and design.  The key chapters are:

- Apron Planning and design Process

- understanding the Apron Environment

- Apron Planning and design

I have extracted some diagrams from the handbook that I thought were interesting.

Source: ACRP Report 96

Jet Blast Contours

Incheon Airport New Terminal 2

Incheon Airport Terminal 2
- open by 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
- 72 gates, to be completed in 2 phases
- 681,431m2
- Cost $2.5 billion
- Designed by Heerim-Mooyoung-Gensler-Yungdo (HMGY) consortium

Source: WSJ Blog, Airport World


Click here for the 4min video that was shown at the Trinity Forum 2012.  Excellent visuals and overview of the new Terminal 2. 

Incheon Terminal 2

Road and Rail Connections

Inter Terminal Connections

APM Connections between T1 and T2

Terminal 2

Source: Moodie Report Youtube channel, Incheon Airport

London Heathrow Airport Terminal 2 - what it looks like inside (2013 Video)

New video of London Heathrow Airport Terminal 2 expected to open next year. 

Click here to view the 4min video introducing the new T2.  Lots of nice visuals of the interior of the new terminal.

Exterior view of parking and T2

Courtyard area connecting carparks and Terminal

Check in area

Security Screening

Shopping Area

Gate seating area

Arrival Immigration

Baggage Reclaim

Meeter Greeter Hall

Sculpture in Courtyard

Source of screenshots shown: LHR T2 video 2013