AirportConsulting
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articles by key industry professionals offering the latest insights into
the development of airports, future trends and other relevant
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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
The airport development industry has faced challenging times
over the past decade. The events of 9/11 and the recent global economic
recession have resulted in fundamental shifts in air travel and air
carrier service, which has had profound impacts on how airports are
approaching their capital development programs. These events have also
had another negative impact that could seriously threaten the viability
of the federal-aid aviation program in the future. 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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