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

Taking a break...

Things have been getting busy at work so I'm taking a break from blogging.  I will be updating the blog quarterly instead of monthly.  So check back in September and December.  Thanks for reading.  AAP

Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program

DFW TRIP Program

- 7 year program to renew DFW's four original terminals which date back to 1974
- Estimated Cost US$2.3 billion
- Commenced in 2011

 Click here for the video.

Aerial View

New Parking Garage with electronic parking guidance

Enhanced Curbside

Concourse Area

Baggage Claim

Walkway to DART Station

DFW DART Station (Orange Line)

Source: DFW website and YouTube Channel

'Airports of the World' magazine

If you like commercial service airports, prefer print material and don't have any access to trade magazines, I would like to recommend 'Airports of the World' magazine.  It is published by Key Publishing based in the UK.  The magazine is published every 2 months.  It has quite a good geographical spread of airports featured with well taken pictures and good write ups.  

Click here for their website.

Key Publishing also publishes a monthly magazine 'Airliner World'. (Click here)

Brisbane Airport (BNE) New Parallel Runway

New Parallel Runway (Artist's impression)

New Parallel Runway (NPR), Brisbane Airport
- 3,300 metre long runway
- more than 12km of taxiways
- Estimated cost A$1.3 billion
- 8 years to build

Source: Brisbane Airport Website and Factsheet

Perth Airport (PER) New Domestic Terminal 2

Check in Hall

Plaza

Departure Lounge

Aerial view

See the fly through video. Click here.

A$120m Terminal 2
- 16 check in counters
- Spacious Departures Lounge
- 14 aircraft gates accessed via covered walkway
- 3 baggage reclaim belts
- Opening Mar 2013

See also a video about the construction of the terminal. Click here.

Source: Perth Airport website and Youtube channel

Calgary Airport Master Plan

Source: Calgary Airport website

Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) Master Plan

Source: Houston Airport System website