08:45 Opening Remarks from the Chairman

09:00 Deconstructing Manchester Airport’s Runway 1 Refurbishment Project

In 2011, Manchester Airport completed a £22 Million refurbishment programme on its principal runway 05L/23R (Runway 1) which was vital to replace infrastructure that was approaching the end of its natural life. The project involved the replacement of the entire runway surface and a completely new lighting system. As a result, Manchester Airport now operates the first runway in the United Kingdom (UK) lit by low-energy LED lighting which will reduce energy use and carbon emissions and result in maintenance savings. Also included in the project was another innovative element - the use of un-grooved BBA surfacing material which is also a UK first. James will share his experience managing this project successfully to achieve its aims while keeping disruptions to a minimum.

• Evaluating the risks for keeping the airport operational while ensuring the safe management and movement of both aircraft and vehicles
• Explaining the processes that Manchester Airport went through before opting to use LED lighting and BBA surfacing
• Reviewing the lessons learnt from the project

James Wood
Group Assets Manager - Civils and Infrastructure
Manchester Airport Group

09:30 Melbourne Airport’s Runway Overlay Project – A Case Study

The proper planning, development and delivery of on-going maintenance and upgrades of runways is paramount to ensuring operational capability and safety. Melbourne Airport just successfully completeld their $45 million maintenance project, during which Runway 09/27 and Runway 16/34 were milled and overlaid with asphalt and the runway lighting system replaced. All this while keeping the airport operational 24 hours a day. The project faced some major challenges such as inclement weather conditions causing the loss of over 80 shifts (approximately 13 weeks). In this session Sarah will share with us how her team effectively adopted range of initiatives to minimise the delay and ensure the successful completion of the project.

• Assessing the distressed runway pavement areas and reviewing repair alternatives life expectancy
• Defining the operational and construction concerns
• Summarising the lessons learnt from the project

Sarah Renner
Head of Operations
Melbourne Airport

10:00 Implementing a successful maintenance strategy for airfi eld pavements - Aeroportos de Portugal’s (ANA) case study

With a very aggressive growth in aircraft movements at airports, ANA has implemented policies to enhance the quality maintenance of their airfi eld assets. Additionally, measures were taken to understand how could the structural lifespan of their assets could increase with innovative pavement maintenance strategies.

• Examining ANA’s airfi eld pavement management techniques and strategies
• Designing and implementing a companywide project to improve the performance of our airfi eld pavements
• Establishing objectives, methodologies, timetables, resources and expected results – Analysing the key benefi ts and lessons learnt so far as well as reviewing the next steps

Carlos Madeira
Vice President
Aeroportos de Portugal

11:00 Reducing the Presence of Wildlife on the Airside

• Effective wildlife management – Analysing trends and patterns with regards to local flora and fauna
• Reviewing techniques to manage your airfield turf grass effectively and meet international safety requirements
• Monitoring and mitigating to ensure wildlife management activities meet objectives and reduce wildlife-related risks

Ian Witter
Head of Policy & Standards
BAA Airside Operations

11:30 Case Study on the Maintenance Challenges Encountered on the Runway, Taxiway and Apron with Diverse Operating environments at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA)

With more and more aircraft movements, HKIA’s two runways will reach capacity within several years. That would result in reduced maintenance timeframes and freeing up aprons for maintenance work will become more and more difficult. Hence ensuring that the runway, taxiway and apron are well maintained becomes a greater challenge to the team. In this session, David Li shares his experience in carrying maintenance and pavement inspection work within such a tight window. This session will cover all types of pavement (concrete, asphalt and block pavement) at HKIA in his experience sharing.

David Li
Senior Manager, Civil & Utilities
Airport Authority Hong Kong

12:00 Machine-Based PMS Data Collection Procedures for Busy International Airports

Airports and aviation authorities are becoming busier by the day, and this trend is going to increase significantly in the near future. Heavy airport traffic makes it difficult to plan and carry out pavement preservation and repair projects. It is vital that the aviation authorities have the best tools available to quantify current pavement condition, anticipate future problems, and select and schedule the best repair strategy at the proper time.

• Ensuring data is collected in the most effective yet efficient way and is of the highest quality
• Determining the budget level necessary to maintain the current network condition and improve it
• Reviewing yearly work programmes to determine the optimum scheduling ensuring minimum disruption

Kars Drenth
Head of Pavement Engineering
Dynatest

13:30 An Update on Brisbane Airport’s New Parallel Runway Project – What can be expected?

Brisbane Airport is the third busiest airport in Australia, and handled 20.6 million passengers in 2011. Brisbane Airport has sustained consistent growth over the last few years and has no curfew. The planning and construction for a new AUD 1.3 billion parallel runway at Brisbane Airport is the major component of a substantial investment that Brisbane Airport Corporation is undertaking to meet the continuing airport growth which is forecast to be handling 33 million annual passengers when the new runway opens around 2020. Brisbane Airport Corporation has undertaken an extensive environmental impact study including a number of initiatives to achieve effective community engagement during the approval phase for the new runway. Construction on the new runway is scheduled to commence in mid-2012 and has many engineering and environmental challenges. In this session, Paul Coughlan will give you an overview of the approach that BAC undertook to take the concept of a new runway through to construction, including the extensive community engagement strategy that has received very positive feedback and awards, and the specific challenges BAC faced thus far on the project.

Paul Coughlan
Project Director New Parallel Runway
Brisbane Airport Corporation

14:00 Greenfield airports: Redefining operational efficiency

Greenfield airports, synonymous to sophistication and efficiency, have definitely raised the bars for the contemporary players in the aviation industry. Operating environment of an airport today is defined not just by the biggest aeroplane operating in the airport but defined simply by the basic doctrine of expenditure versus revenue. The most expensive commodity, land, is one single infrastructure which has the power to decide the fate of long term prospects and sustainability of an airport. It simply is not possible to keep on building longer and wider runways for ever but the secret lies in clever and efficient use of the land parcels and infrastructure available within the airport to create a revenue cycle. An airport is not an airport any more but is always a thriving aerotropolis which not only can support itself but offer long term prospects to support aviation activity profitably. The Greenfield advantage provides a clear lead in terms of enhanced safety and highly defined eco-friendly initiatives. This session will allow you to catch a glimpse of these nuances of Greenfield advantages which will be helping the Brownfield airports to see the advantages through a much clear windscreen for a longer drive.

Narayanasamy Venkatachalapathy
Associate GM – Airside Operations
Hyderabad International Airport

14:30 ADAC’s Sustainable Airport Development in A Desert Environment

There is a compelling and urgent need to address the environmental effects of air transportation, especially as the demand for air transportation grows. Airports around the world are “going green” however green facilities and infrastructure can sometimes actually cost more to own and operate than their more traditional counterparts. The Abu Dhabi International Airport Midfield Terminal Complex (MTC) case study will be discussed in this session:

• Designing and constructing the Abu Dhabi (MTC) as part of Abu Dhabi 2030 vision
• Launching Estidama, sustainability in English, to create an overarching sustainability framework that will direct the current course while allowing adaptation as new understanding evolves
• Analysing the Estidama Pearl Rating System (PRS)
• Reviewing MTC sustainable sesign elements

Samiha Al Nuaimi
Head of Engineering, Planning & Development
Abu Dhabi Airports Company

15:30 LED Airfield Lighting Technology of Korea Airports Corporation (KAC)

LED airfield lighting has many advantages - low power consumption, cost savings equate to 70% compared to existing halogen type, has a lifespan of 50 times longer than the existing halogen type, stronger and quicker lighting responses and most importantly is environmentally friendly. Korean Airports Corporation is the midst of developing 19 kinds of LED airfield lightings including lights in approaching area, runway area, taxiway area, and direction signalling lights, and power supply for LED (including constant current regulator and insulating transformer). Currently, taxiway LED airfield lightings were installed at Gimpo, Gimhae, Jeju, Gunsan airport in Korea. Our company plans to change more and more airfield lightings to LED as it enhances the products’ reliability and efficiency. This airfield lights are a game-changer contributing a lot to the vision of “low carbon green airport” of the company. Mr Kang will elaborate during this session:

• Analysing the features of the LED Airfield Lighting and establishing the possible infrastructure alterations required for LED lighting
• KAC’s present condition of LED Airfield lighting development
• Energy efficiency and cost reduction of the LED Airfield lighting

Kang Gee-hun
Manager, R&D Center
Korea Airports Corporation

16:30 Overcoming Dubai International Airport Maintenance Challenges

Dubai Airports’ efforts to enhance the customer experience have been widely recognised. Airports Council International (ACI) voted Dubai International as both ‘Most Improved Airport in the Middle East’ and ‘Best Airport in the Middle East’ for 2010. To ensure operational success, Saud Alhumoudi will elaborate during this session on the strategies undertaken at the Dubai Airport.

• Establishing an efficient maintenance schedule
• Evaluating some of the major challenges the environment presents to maintenance operations
• Conducting effective performance evaluations

Saud Al Humoudi
Head of Airfield Infrastructure
Dubai Airports

17:00 Close of Day Two