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AirportConsulting
Summer 2011 | Download (may take several minutes)
Cover Story
Are Airports Non-Places?
By Stephen J. Appold and John D. Kasarda
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Social scientists view
airports as quintessential ‘non-places.’
‘Places’ communicate identity, social meaning and history
while ‘non-places,’ lacking these attributes, are held to be
anonymous, disorienting and off-putting. Airports — and the larger
surrounding airport cities — are not limited to being anonymous
and without meaning. Identity and meaning need to stem from the users
and their activities, supported by the urban design work of architects
and planners rather than from creating distant historical allusions and
local programs. More...
Special
Feature
Are You Service-Oriented? Reducing Divergent Networks to Increase
Airport Efficiency
By Mitul Patel, Motorola Solutions
The air transport industry
has a highly mobile workforce with millions of individuals at airports
that must quickly access and act on real-time information. These needs
create a complex and dynamic workflow that must be carefully managed.
However, even with recent technology advancements, many business
processes remain static and paper-based, reducing efficiency and
effectiveness while increasing inaccuracies and cost. In many of
today’s airports, different constituencies have separate
communications networks and platforms. That variation inevitably leads
toward too many people spending too much time trying to use, manage and
coordinate platforms. Full article...
Consultants
Perspective
Many Shades of Green Ahead
By Jane Ahrens, AIA LEED AP, Gresham Smith and Partners,
Inc.
Designers and their airport clients are
fully aware of the environmental and financial benefits of healthier
buildings. Demand for such facilities continues to grow as airports
realize energy, water and other resource savings. To help meet these
goals many airports are either voluntarily or by mandate designing and
building facilities to achieve LEED certification, or are adopting
building codes and standards that are intended to target energy
efficiencies and other sustainable features. Significant changes are on
the horizon for the LEED rating system and various sustainability
focused codes and standards that will further impact the design and
construction of airport buildings. Read more...
Executive
Update
"The past is the past, and the future is ours to
create."
Terry A. Ruhl, P.E., CH2M HILL, ACC 2011 Board of Directors
Chair
Aviation practitioners in
today’s marketplace are perhaps more greatly affected by the
political and economic climate than at any other time in the
industry’s history. Funding bills, political debates and
stakeholder demands are requiring owners, developers, consultants,
suppliers and contractors to have the ability to adapt, build innovative
partnerships and take greater risk. Full
update...
After All
Cumulative Impact Claims: Hard to Describe,
Even Harder to Prove
By J. Kevin Bridston, Holland and Hart, LLP
Most are
familiar with claims for changes and delay claims. Fewer people are
familiar with cumulative impact claims. What is a cumulative impact
claim? Stated simply, a cumulative impact claim is a claim that consists
of the “ripple effect” of multiple changes to a project, the
effects of which were not recognized or anticipated at the time the
change itself was priced by the contractor. Cumulative impact claims are
relatively uncommon and are generally seen only on large and complex
projects, however, they are noteworthy. Full
story...
Executive Spotlight
The
Sheward Partnership, LLC
The Sheward Partnership is an
architecture, planning and sustainability consulting firm consisting of
highly qualified architects, planners and sustainability experts
dedicated to creating environmentally sensitive architectural solutions
that respond to client needs. A service-oriented firm, Sheward strives
to provide personalized solutions to every client and every project. The
dedication of the staff is what truly makes the Sheward team so unique.
The firm boasts a core of key staff that not only have extensive
experience, but who have been collaborating on projects as a team for
upwards of twenty years. This core is complemented and challenged by
talented new hires as the firm continues to expand and diversify. The
team is led by involved managing partners who make every effort to
provide the latest technology, design tools and information available to
the staff in a comfortable, energized office environment.
Full spotlight...
Associate Spotlight
Quantum Secure,
Inc.
Founded in 2004, Quantum Secure entered
the market as the first Physical Identity and Access Management
platform. Today, the SAFE software suite remains the leading solution
for managing identities and provisioning access in physical security
infrastructure and customers range from large international airports to
highly secure government agencies and Fortune 500 global
corporations. Full
spotlight...
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