Ideal Strategies to Develop Efficient Airfields and Implement Cost Effective Asset

Management
www.airfieldengineering.com
3 4 September 2014, Bali, Indonesia
New Regulations Impacting Engineering Design for Airfields
Inaugural Presentation: Airfield Projects under Development in Indonesia PT
Angkasapura I
*Invited
Polana Banguningsih Pramesti, Technical Director, PT ANGKASAPURA AIRPORTS I
Ensuring airfield safety: revised regulations concerning engineering and construction
- Classifying and codifying of airfields: to be implemented and expected regulatory changes
- Existing codes from FAA and ICAO impacting engineering and construction of airfields
- Constructing an airfield environment-friendly: opportunities and challenges
- Sustainable and green-codified components in engineering an airfield
*Invited
Arun Mishra, Regional Director, INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANISATION (ICAO)
Jeffrey S Gagnon, Manager Airports Pavement Subgroup, FEDERAL AVIATION AUTHORITY
Regularising advanced airfield design criteria: evolving changes to conventional ACN/PCN
parameters
- Tracing the evolution of ACN/PCN over the years as parameters for airfield development
- Proposed design and engineering criteria: why is it taking place?
- The impact of new engineering determinants including elastic linear analysis on new airfield
design and engineering
- The timeline for implementing new engineering criteria
Confirmed
Cyril Fabre, Head Pavement, AIRBUS
Cost Efficient Techniques in Airfield Design and Construction
Implementing cost-effective techniques in reclaiming land for airfield construction: HKIA
- Considering environmental challenges while reclaiming land for airfield expansion
- Combining good geophysical and geotechnical investigations for better results
- Dredging techniques employed in creating usable area for future expansions
- What could go wrong while constructing airfields in reclaimed land and how to mitigate that?
*Invited
Kevin T Poole, Head Projects, AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF HONG KONG
The complex matrix of heavier aircraft + pavement texture + contracting: managing the
impact on airside construction
- Why do we miss construction contract schedules?
- Modelling pavement lifecycle and ensuring its implementation
- Working into the finer details of pavement texture finalisation
- Understanding ideal project management and its impact on airfield operations
*Invited
Kieren Moss, Principal Airports, SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ
Integrating sound asset management
infrastructure: Gatwick Runway 2

strategies

while

developing

new

airfield

- Commencing your runway development with ideal asset strategies

- Analysing possible collaborative failures
- How to increase coordination between M & E and C & S on airside development
- Anticipating and mitigating risks in new runway construction
Confirmed
Girish Reesaul, Principal Engineer, GATWICK AIRPORT
Breakthrough in composite asphalt mixtures for cost effective construction and operation
- Composing new asphalt mixture for long term operational benefits
- Overcoming conservative mindset and lack of data in using new composites
- Clearing regulatory hurdles by presenting improved friction data
- What are the benefits: rubber removal, ease of maintenance and lesser wear
*Invited
James Wood, Head Airside Engineering, MANCHESTER AIRPORTS
Dr Bachar Hakim, Technical Director & Head Pavement Materials, URS SCOTT WILSON
Maximising runway operability through optimal grooving construction
- Constructing runways with trapezoidal shaped grooving
- Increased benefits through higher friction performance and avoiding hydroplaning
- Improving drainage qualities through good grooving techniques
- What is the impact on tyres and rubber removal costs?
*Invited
Ken Fyvie, Pavement Specialist, SNC-LAVALIN
Panel discussion Choosing appropriate runway/pavement materials
- Developments in pavement construction materials and considerations to be employed in
choosing them
- Delivering a good combination of selection criteria: pitfalls to look for
- Ease of construction and removal
- Rate of oxidation, friction performance and cost of maintenance
*Invited
Dr Susan Tighe, Director Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology, UNIVERSITY
OF WATERLOO
Enhancing Airfield Efficiency from Concept to Operations
Enhancing airside operational efficiency through Collaborative Decision Making (CDM)
programme
- Automating airside operations through CDM: the stakeholders and the interaction pattern
- Surface Movement Radar (SMR) as a means of improving collaboration
- Addressing compliance issues while implementing CDM in new airfields
- Prioritising mechanism for demands from stakeholders in airside operations
*Invited
Roy Sebastian, Vice President Projects & Engineering and Head Airport Systems, GMR
AIRPORT DEVELOPERS
Expecting the unexpected: Reducing bottlenecks while integrating Safety Management
Systems (SMS) and ORAT (Operational Readiness and Airport Transfer) in major Airfield
expansion projects
- The concept of Managed Delivery in airfield expansion projects
- Mitigating challenges in project managing expansion projects
- Effecting fast and efficient transfers from operations airports to new facilities case studies
- Ensuring SMS while planning for transfer
*Invited
Nikhil Singh, General Manager and Head Airside Works, GVK AIRPORTS
Implementing Strategies for Airfield Life Extension through Proven Asset Management
Methods

How to specify appropriate asset management tools and accessibility factors while
operating airfields
- Creating roadmap for good asset management strategies
- Achieving faster and higher accreditations for your airports: what do you need to control
- How to discern what tools do you actually need in improving asset maintenance
- Incorporating asset management strategies while developing new airfield assets
*Invited
Joe Stratford, Sector Head - Airports, HALCROW
Augmenting Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) of various airside assets for better asset control
- Utilising data on various airside assets from past operations to develop a plan
- Optimising LCA: developing in-house capabilities
- Working with long term performance modelling equations for assets of differing ages
- Current tools and road ahead
*Invited
Paul Willis, Global Head Aviation, EC HARRIS
Newer analytical tools: Deterioration Modelling for optimal stock-taking of airfield assets
- Structural and performance analyses of airfield assets a comparison between conventional
and current techniques
- Modelling deterioration rates of various airfield assets: what an operator needs to know
- Ageing assets and differing material combinations a critical factor to address
- Understanding environmental and operations practices along with the history of maintenance
*Invited
Ian Taylor, Lead Aviation, ARUP
Recycling existing pavements in current expansion programmes: Techniques to improve
cost and time efficiency
- Creating a comprehensive plan for recycling airside assets
- Relocating movable airside assets efficiently
- Recycling pavements and other airside infrastructure: challenges and opportunities for cost
reduction
- Integrating existing fixed assets with new retrofits
*Invited
Tony Douglas, Chief Executive Officer, ABU DHABI AIRPORTS
Drawing an ideal maintenance window for single and two runway systems: how to improve
planning?
- Collating inputs from various equipment providers to match with stakeholders and agencies
- Arriving at an ideal maintenance window is still 3 hours the best to beat?
- Automating the planning process differing weightage for inspection and maintaining
elements
- Developing a specification log from consultants, technology providers and operational teams
for cutting down maintenance window without hampering ATC operations
*Invited
Bryan Thompson, General Manager Asset Development & Management, MELBOURNE
AIRPORT
Making Airfields Safe and Predictable Technology Updates
Why do we prefer LED lighting systems for modern airfields?
- Moving away from incandescent lighting to LEDs the initial investment issue
- Reducing operational cost in the long run through improved energy efficiency is it
achievable
- Why to modern airports prefer LED lighting increasingly for runways rather than taxiways
- Life expectancy and impact on asset management strategies
*Invited
Clarence Low, Chief Engineer, CHANGI AIRPORT GROUP
Addressing inherent challenges in integrating airfield fuelling systems

- Designing easily accessible fuelling systems

- Addressing the possible failures in fuelling tank installation and operations
- Maintaining adequate and suitable spares
- Removal and retrofitting of airfield fuelling systems
*Invited
Joeri Aulman, Regional Manager, NETHERLANDS AIRPORT CONSULTANTS
Improving efficiency in FOD identification and clearance
- Reducing cost of FOD identification and clearance by new technology
- Upgrading to latest equipment while integrating with existing FOD removers
- Road ahead for FOD technology
*Invited
Khairiah Salleh, General Manager Engineering (KLIA), MALAYSIA AIRPORTS HOLDINGS
Moving away from conventional signage and visual display systems
- How is changing regulation in visual display and airfield marking affect operations
- Demarcating runways, taxiways and aprons in compliance with new codes
- Lighting the airfield: incidences arising out of lack of adequate lighting
- Road ahead for signage, lighting and visual display systems
*Invited
Ali Haydar, Project Director MEA Airports, TAV