1. Case study
Challenges And Impact On
Airport Planning Design Failure

2. Case study
Challenges in airport planning design
• Costing/Money
– Better material – always expensive
– Facilities meet customers expectation
• Geographical condition
– Suitable land current and future development
• Up to date facility
– technology
– Competitive
• Design
– Uncertainties capacity
• pax forecasting
• Natural Disaster
– Earthquake
• Revenue
– Profitability
• Airport
• airlines

3. Case study
Impact Design Failure Effected
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Runway- distance , runway material
Parking bay facilities-equipment
Apron services- equipment
Future expansion- capacity
New aircraft model –A380 facilities
Passenger flow movement

4. Case study
Example accident
Collapse of Charles De Gaulle Airport,
Paris Terminal 2E

5. Case study
What went wrong
Chronology
• 7:00 am Sunday, May 23rd 2004
• Boarding area in terminal 2E at CDG
Airport collapsed
• collapse of the glass structure as well
,the aerobridges that connected the
terminal(PLB)
• Six persons died and 3 more were
injured.

6. Case study

8. Case study
ISSUES
• CUTTING CORNERS
– Save budget material
– Not follow standard procedures
– COUTERFIT /BOGUS PART
• DESIGN LAYOUT
– Multiple concept
– Design structure
• CONTRACTOR HISTORY
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Problem on previous construction
Personnel
Human factor
Decision making

9. Impact
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Airport closed down-business stop running
Passengers/aircraft movement-scheduling
Complain from airlines and customer
Compensation to families
Airport got bad name
Renovation maintenance cost

10. SPECIAL THANKS TO
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
CHANNEL AIRPORT DESIGN
Q&A