Planning airports is an extraordinarily challenging task. Projects are large and super-complex, with huge budgets and tight schedules, conditions are highly volatile. Project-Teams are so big and multicultural like a modern day Babylon.
This blog brings together my reflections on the process of planning airports:
How can the planning process be improved? What are the right strategies for future airport infrastructure? Are there common believes we need to change radically?
Planning airports is an extraordinarily challenging task. Projects are large and super-complex, with huge budgets and tight schedules, conditions are highly volatile. Project-Teams are so big and multicultural like a modern day Babylon.
This blog brings together my reflections on the process of planning airports:
How can the planning process be improved? What are the right strategies for future airport infrastructure? Are there common believes we need to change radically?
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