Project Management : The Brisbane Airport

The Denver International Airport project consists of designing and constructing a new airport, based upon a

Work on the London Heathrow terminal 5(T5) began in 2002 after a 4 year public enquiry. It took six years to build at a cost of £4.3bn. The facility, situated on a 251hectar site had 6000 people working on site at any one time (Health and Safety Executive, 2005). It boasts of 30,000 square meters of glass walls, has 60 new aircraft stands and includes 13km of tunnels which were bored for baggage handling and rail links (BBC, 2007a).

Prime Minister Tony Abbot has recently confirmed a second airport for Sydney, piling up tens of millions of dollars to pay for the infrastructure in Badgerys’s Creek. Abbot did this because he felt a need of a second airport in Sydney’s west, even though it would make only a slight benefit as when we look at the population of Badgerys’s Creek, only some 4000 people, it would make very little difference to the airport in Sydney. Mr Abbot also believes that it would open up near 60,000 jobs once the airport is fully functional

Good morning fellow students I am the head of construction and I will be talking about the Wynnem road upgrades. This is going to be effecting a vast amount of people all across Brisbane. This means the government will be buying and demolishing homes as soon as they come on sale. I strongly believe that the widening of Wynnem road should go ahead. The barricades have been put on and the plans have been reveled after first thought of upgrading in 2011. It is due to complete in 2020. The upgrade will provide interim measures to improve traffic efficiency and safety along Wynnum Road between Canning Bridge and Riding Road in Norman park.

3. It catch in traffic congestion on the Tullamarine Freeway. Passenger numbers at Melbourne Airport are forecast to reach 40 million by 2020 and more than 60 million by 2033.

Pennant Hills Road was identified by the NRMA (National Roads and Motorists' Association) as the 3rd worst road in New South Wales and in the Australian Capital Territory, and it is the 2nd worst road in Sydney’s road network. The NorthConnex Tunnel is expected to remove 9000 cars and 5 000 heavy vehicles off Pennant Hills Road daily, (appendix A) which is sure to help the traffic move faster. 30 000 motorists are estimated to use the tunnel when it opens (appendix A), however

Garage. With plans for phase 1 of the new rail line to be operational at the beginning of 2014,

Multiplex argued that Mott MacDonald’s design for the Wembley steel work was not fit for purpose and that the initial designs were not correct, constructible, coordinated and consistent. In other words, although the design looked good, it was very challenging and maybe impossible to replicate to scale.

In the technological risk was that is the customers were involved in design and development of the Boeing 767, they would gain from much greater involution and feedback from users of the aircraft. In the very new airplanes they are first to tested then to implement the designed. These tested approved the safety test in the laboratories and too much used of computer they are useful in techniques. For the last project they learnt many of lessons which are not used in the 767 product airline. This airline is much better than the competition promotes.

Community calls on the government to stop the plan to build a 24-hour no curfew airport in Badgerys creek. The campaign highlights the wishes of residents, environmental impacts and challenges the necessity of the development in Sydney’s West. The Turnball government has made changes to the initial proposal, but the recent budget shows the project will continue with full force. Some community groups are left feeling defeated, but not willing to give up anytime soon.

Located north of Sydney, in the state of Queensland, the urban population of Brisbane was 1.1 million with a population density of 1200 persons/km2 (Table 3). Given the significant decrease in population, Brisbane was categorised as a low density, medium population city. Similar to Sydney, the large urban sprawl of Greater Brisbane was limited to the inner city and the north, east and south residential areas. Hence, as depicted in Figure 4, outer lying towns including Ipswich were excluded from the study. The corresponding weather stations were ideally located, with two stations residing in central Brisbane and Brisbane Airport. Although weather stations in airports are usually categorised as rural, the growth infrastructure around the area

Question 1. What project selection method described in the chapter will ABI probably employ for this proposal? Answer According to the description, the project selection method is profitability of numeric model. We might see the points from the business strategy 1) Bid only on good margin products that have the potential for maintaining their margins over a long term. 2) Pursue only new products. 3) Utilize the most advanced technology in new projects. “ project champion” approach to innovation and creativity. no more than 480 employees. 4) Foster the

Even though the price would be lowered because of the bad weather as per the tying in price and weather policy, not everyone would still want to go away. Either it needs to be explained clearly on the website that undesirable weather will not entitle any customer to a refund or to change or cancel their booking without penalty; or the policy must be clear in whatever the company decides is fair. For example, it may state that if the weather is unpleasant can change (but not cancel) the booking to another time.

3). Airport design has always been an important part of any renovation project or new construction, yet even more light has been shed on this part of the process as the A380 and future models will require larger gates, bigger hangers and improved baggage-collection and passenger transport services. Yeaman states that “due to the aircraft’s high passenger volume…gate hold rooms may have to double in size, concourses need to be widened and capacity of ticket processing and customs areas may need to be expanded” (2001, p. 4).

The 1989 Denver Airport project was necessary to replace Denver’s antiquated airport with a modern facility. This would significantly reduce passenger turnaround time. This project has been considered a major failure when it comes to project management. One could argue that this project failed in all aspects; from planning, to design, to implementation; the project was doomed from the start. According to Kirk Johnson, a Chief Editor for the New York Times, “[d]ecentralization and mobile computing technology have taken over just about everything, allowing airlines, warehouse operators and shippers like FedEx to learn with just a few clicks the whereabouts of an item in motion, a feature that was supposed to be a chief strength of the baggage system” (Denver Airport Saw the Future. It Didn't Work, 2005.). With so many points failure, it is hard to focus on what caused the project to fail, but what we know is that a project of that magnitude required much more planning.