Role: Senior Manager - Special Airport Systems and Master Systems Integration
Suvarnabhumi Airport - The construction cost of the project is $3.5 Billion. The terminal area is 6,000,000 square feet (500,000 sqm) of floor space. This is the world's largest single terminal complex, and was the largest construction project in Asia at the time of construction. The terminal roof trellises are also the largest of its kind in the world.
The terminal capacity is 45-50 million passengers a year with the ability to handle 76 flights per hour. The airport will be expanded to its ultimate capacity by 2010 to handle 112 flights per hour and accommodating 100 million passengers each year. The terminal has the ability to handle 1.46 million tons of cargo per year handling 51 aircraft stands and 24 remote parking bays for wide-bodied aircraft.
Suvarnabhumi Airport (meaning 'Golden Land' in Sanskrit), also known as (New) Bangkok International Airport, is an international airport serving Bangkok, Thailand. It was officially opened for limited domestic flight service on 15 September 2006, and opened for most domestic and all international commercial flights on 28 September. The airport is currently the main hub for Thai Airways International, Bangkok Airways, Orient Thai Airlines, Thai AirAsia and will be a hub for the new Thai Tiger Airways.
The airport is located in Racha Thewa in Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan Province, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of downtown Bangkok. The name Suvarnabhumi was chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and refers to the golden kingdom hypothesised to have been located somewhere in Southeast Asia.
Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects, the airport has the world's tallest control tower (132.2 metres / 434 feet), and the world's third largest single-building airport terminal (563,000 square metres / 6,060,000 square feet). Suvarnabhumi is the 3rd busiest airport in Asia, and the busiest in the country, having handled 42.7 million passengers in 2010, and is also a major air cargo hub. The airport inherited the airport code BKK from Don Mueang after the older airport ceased international commercial flights. A modern motorway no.7 connects the airport, Bangkok, and the heavily industrial Eastern Seaboard of Thailand, where most of the manufacturing for export takes place.
Role: Executive Consultant - Airport Information Management System - CONOPS
Incheon Airport has maintained a robust growth streak of 6% on annual average since its opening, rising to become the second-biggest in terms of cargo volume and the eighth-biggest in terms of passenger volume worldwide.
Beating the cynics who expected that the construction funding structure of Incheon Airport that financed 60% of the construction cost of KRW 5.6 trillion on its own rather than relied on government funding would keep Incheon Airport in continuous deficit, Incheon Airport began to post net gain of KRW170 billion on annual average for 7 straight years from the 4th anniversary which was 2004 to 2010 and turned financially sound, bringing down the debt ratio from 166% in the initial years to 69% as of the end of 2010.
Furthermore, Incheon Airport achieved the world’s highest integrity and safety of air navigation
system by running the air navigation safety facilities for 80,000 consecutive hours even without a single operational interruption since the opening in March, 2001 and achieved cargo transshipment rate of 50% and passenger transit rate of 18%, becoming the No.1 hub airport of the Northeast Asia in both
appearance and substance.
Shining with the quantitative growth record of Incheon Airport is the recognition of its global service leadership. Among more than 1,700 airports worldwide, Incheon Airport won the Air Service Quality(ASQ) Award also known as the ‘Nobel Prize for Airports’ for 6 years in a row, a splendid accomplishment that has no precedent.
Role: Project Manager - Special Airport Systems and Systems Integration
Terminal 3 at Dubai Airport cost US$4.5 billion to build and is exclusively used by Emirates Airlines. Once Dubai Airports Terminal 3 building is fully operational, it will be able to handle an annual capacity of 43 million passengers. Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport will have 5 Airbus A380 gates at Concourse 2, and 18 at Concourse 3. The Terminal 3 building consists of 82 moving walkways, 97 escalators, 8 sky-trains (4 each at Arrivals and Departures), 157 elevators, and 27 truck lifts.
Terminal 3 at Dubai Airport is in fact the largest building in the world by floor space, with over 1,500,000 m2 (370 acres) of space which is currently capable of handling 27 million passengers a year. Once Terminal 3 and the corresponding Concourses are fully operational it will have an annual capacity of 43 million passengers. A large part of Terminal 3 at Dubai Airport is located underground and under the taxiway area where the Terminal is directly connected to Concourse 2. The departures and arrivals halls have been operational since October 2008 and are actually 10 metres beneath the airport’s apron.
The Terminal includes a multi level underground structure, first and business class lounges, restaurants, 180 check-in counters and 2,600 car-parking spaces. Terminal 3 at Dubai Airport provides more than double the previous retail area of concourse 1, by adding about 4,800 m2 and Concourse 2's further 10,700 m2 of shopping facilities.
The baggage handling system at Dubai Airports Terminal 3 really is something else and is the largest and deepest in the world which can handle up to 8,000 bags per hour. The system includes 21 screening injection points, 49 make-up carousals, 90 km of conveyor belts capable of handling 15,000 items per hour at a speed of 27kmh, and 4,500 early baggage storage positions.
Departures at Terminal 3 Dubai Airport includes 126 check-in counters for economy class passengers and 36 for first and business class passengers. There is also 18 self service kiosks, 3 lounges for unaccompanied minors, 38 counters with 12 e-gates for Economy class passengers and 10 counters with 4 e-gates for First & Business class passengers at immigration for Dubai Airport Terminal 3 Departures.
