Speaker Biograghy: Krishan has an MBA and Master of Construction Management from University of NSW Australia. With over 25 years of infrastructure, asset management and construction management experience, he has held senior management positions in facilities and construction management with Sydney Airport Corporation and most recently as the Project Director of the iconic Brisbane City Hall Restoration project with Brisbane City Council. In his current role with Brisbane Airport over last three years, he is responsible for delivery of multi-million capital projects, construction of a $1.3bn new parallel runway project, facilities management of multi-billion dollar asset portfolio and delivery of state-of-the-art IT services across the whole airport. Over the last three years, Krishan has orchestrated and implemented an innovative multi-million comprehensive facilities management contract, numerous sustainability initiatives, IT strategy and successful delivery of a large and ambitious capital investment programme of $600m.


Day 3 - 27 March
Session: Airport Design, Planning & Development

12:25 - 12:55 - Planning for a privately funded $1.3bn runway
Synopsis: To meet its capacity requirements, Brisbane Airport is constructing one of the first runways in 20 years, and the first since privatisation of airports in Australia. Brisbane is one of the very few privately funded airports in the world. This paper will cover: the need for a new runway; interface planning between the position of the new runway and its associated taxiway system; runway aeronautical and airspace design; technical challenges on the project; runway approval process; commercial issues surrounding the construction of a privately funded runway; community, stakeholders, environmental, political and media issues.

Audience will learn:

• Commercial challanges facing a privatised airport over large investment on a major project with a long gestation period
• Aeronautical and airspace design management of a new runway
• Understanding of approval processes for a new runway and its challenges
• Management of stakeholder, community, environmental and media issues surrounding construction of a runway