Speaker Biograghy: Richard is an architect with 35 years of experience in architectural practice and more than 20 as a practice principal. For the last 17 years he has specialised in transportation projects, particularly the design and planning of airports, first as Aviation Director for HOK's London studio and latterly as Design Director - Aviation for global design studio Woods Bagot, based in Perth, Western Australia. Having become an expert in this field through his involvement in many landmark projects, such as Terminal 5 Heathrow, Terminal 3 in Delhi and the master plan for a new airport for Lisbon, Portugal, Richard has spoken extensively at airport conferences, published articles and been interviewed on TV discussing airport design and development. Recently Richard has been leading the design of a series of expansion projects at Perth Airport.


Day 3 - 27 March
Session: Airport Cities and Transport Connections

11:25 - 11:50 - Design benchmarking – an examination of methodology
Synopsis: Many airport owners ask their designers to benchmark their proposals against other airports, but how often is a truly systematic exercise conducted? Usually half a dozen examples from the consultant team's immediate past projects are pulled together, and one or two statistics about each are compared. As part of a recently completed masterplanning exercise for Perth Airport, Woods Bagot, Arup and Airbiz undertook an extensive and systematic landside benchmarking exercise encompassing airports around the world and looking at multiple features. This presentation will explain the methodology used and share some of the resulting data.

Audience will learn:

• What general data about airports globally is readily available and what is not
• How we identified relevant comparator airports for a specific airport
• What features we were asked to compare and which proved easier or more difficult to measure
• How we initially presented the data and how we subsequently re-presented it
• We will share an overview of some of the benchmark data