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Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) Concourse E Expansion
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) is a key airport in the US aviation transportation network and an important hub airport for American Airlines (AA). By 2019 (pre-COVID) CLT saw upwards of 50 million annual passengers travel through the terminal facilities.
CLT initiated a project to develop building facilities for existing regional jet gates being served at hardstand locations. Expansion of Concourse E (the Project) was begun in 2015 with design phase services. The Project includes an eastern expansion for 4 gates and a northern expansion for 10 gates. Additionally, the Project included installing new passenger boarding bridges at 11 existing gates that ground loaded/unloaded passengers.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) is a key airport in the US aviation transportation network and an important hub airport for American Airlines (AA). By 2019 (pre-COVID) CLT saw upwards of 50 million annual passengers travel through the terminal facilities.
CLT initiated a project to develop building facilities for existing regional jet gates being served at hardstand locations. Expansion of Concourse E (the Project) was begun in 2015 with design phase services. The Project includes an eastern expansion for 4 gates and a northern expansion for 10 gates. Additionally, the Project included installing new passenger boarding bridges at 11 existing gates that ground loaded/unloaded passengers.
Presenter: tony dockery, principal, agd associates
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Anthony (Tony) Dockery has over 30 years of planning and design experience directly related to airport facilities and the surrounding airport environment with special expertise in terminal and concourse buildings. His project management experience leading numerous facility planning programs is extensive covering many large airports in the US and overseas. His facility experience covers conceptual programming, planning, design and implementation planning of terminals and concourses, international arrivals facilities, cargo facilities, aircraft maintenance hangars and facilities for fixed-based operators to name a few. Tony is a licensed architect but developed his skills in apron planning starting with his employment at a major airline in 1986. Tony started his own firm in January 2012 providing airport facility programming and planning services and apron planning.
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Non-Standard Fillet Design
While design standards provide for nice clean taxiway intersections of 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 135 and 150 degrees many taxiway improvement or expansion projects that include connections to an existing taxiway system can be anything but the ideal standard. Using the standard fillet design dimension (i.e. 120ᵒ or 135ᵒ for a real 128ᵒ turn) without considering the aircraft tracking can lead to either significant over construction of costly concrete pavement, or potentially dangerous under-construction where the Taxiway Edge Safety Margin (TESM) is compromised.Using AviPLAN’s design tools to assess the requirements of a fleet mix or aircraft group as it maneuvers through the turn will help the designer develop the most cost effective and functional design for those non-standard turns.
While design standards provide for nice clean taxiway intersections of 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 135 and 150 degrees many taxiway improvement or expansion projects that include connections to an existing taxiway system can be anything but the ideal standard. Using the standard fillet design dimension (i.e. 120ᵒ or 135ᵒ for a real 128ᵒ turn) without considering the aircraft tracking can lead to either significant over construction of costly concrete pavement, or potentially dangerous under-construction where the Taxiway Edge Safety Margin (TESM) is compromised.Using AviPLAN’s design tools to assess the requirements of a fleet mix or aircraft group as it maneuvers through the turn will help the designer develop the most cost effective and functional design for those non-standard turns.
Presenter: MIchael OSBORNE, Engineering Design Manager and Senior Design Technologist at EXP
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With 30+ years of experience in transportation and infrastructure design projects, Mike is an Engineering Design Manager and Senior Design Technologist at EXP. He has a long-standing passion for airport engineering and has provided design support and project management for a variety of aviation projects in Canada and the US. He is experienced in the preparation of designs that meet Transport Canada, FAA and ICAO standards. As part of his role Mike continues to work with design software to keep up with evolving technology and how it can be best utilized for efficient project design and delivery. This further enables him to understand and help the design team develop options and resolve challenges as they arise. Combined with Mike’s passion for airport engineering is his previous flight experience, providing a greater understanding of airside operations and safety, from the runway to the terminal. Airport projects have included runway, taxiway, apron and gate designs at airports ranging in size from large international airports to remote gravel runways in the Canadian Arctic.
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AviPLAN Impact at Guayaquil International Airport's operations and infrastructure
Airport Authority of Guayaquil is a branch of the city of Guayaquil, and the owner of the Guayaquil International airport. AAG is in charge of supervising the private airport operator and preparing all studies for the future airport and its concession. During this presentation, Mark will briefly cover four cases of how AviPLAN has been used at Guayaquil International Airport. Mark will talk about a fillet design challenge, the addition of a second PBB at a MARS gate, a runway extension project and lastly a project regarding a new remote PAX apron.
Airport Authority of Guayaquil is a branch of the city of Guayaquil, and the owner of the Guayaquil International airport. AAG is in charge of supervising the private airport operator and preparing all studies for the future airport and its concession. During this presentation, Mark will briefly cover four cases of how AviPLAN has been used at Guayaquil International Airport. Mark will talk about a fillet design challenge, the addition of a second PBB at a MARS gate, a runway extension project and lastly a project regarding a new remote PAX apron.
Presenter: mark räde, airside coordinator at guayaquil airport authority
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Mark is an Airport Ops and Planning specialist He is a part of the team that successfully concessioned the GYE Airport in 2004, and has been involved in Guayaquil´s future airport planning since 2005. Mark is also past Chair member on the ACI ASQ Sub Committee. He is an aviation enthusiast, proud to work at an airport that has received dozens of awards and recognitions worldwide since 2006. Mark holds a bachelor degree in Flight Operations from St Cloud State, and a Master of Aeronautical Science from the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He became a certified member and airport certified employee ops by the American Association of Airport Executives in 2015.
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Product Update and Airport Compatibility Trends
Presenter: Evanicio c. Costa, lead engineer - product development, at boeing
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Evanicio leads a group of airport engineers primarily engaged with configuration development, influencing aircraft design so new and derivative aircraft are compatible with today’s airport. Evanicio is actively engaged with internal and external engineering groups, airline customers, airports, international civil aviation authorities, professional organizations and the public. He is a member of the ICAO Aerodrome Design and Operations Panel, EASA Airport Technical Committee and FAA’s Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee.
In the last several years, he has worked closely with aviation community to introduce the 747-8 airplane into airports worldwide. Currently, Evanicio leads the 777X airport entrance into service effort worldwide. Evanicio has an extensive background in transportation engineering design, planning, construction and project management experience in the commercial aviation sector. Evanicio holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Utah State University. |
