Speaker Biograghy: Nancy is the firm-wide Engineering Director for HOK, with 20 years of aviation experience on some of the world’s largest airports. HOK’s Aviation Group specialises in the planning, programming, design and management of airport and aviation facility projects all over the world. Over the past five years, the group has planned and designed 50 airport projects worth more than US$24bn. Nancy moved to HOK in 2011, after 24 years with Arup, where she was the Americas Aviation Business Leader. Her projects are typically award winning, and include the new Terminal Redevelopment Project at Salt Lake City, the US$1.4bn JFK Terminal 4 (the first PPP in the USA) and the US$1.2bn JFK Delta Expansion, the structural design of the US$7bn King Abdul Azziz International Terminal in Jeddah, and the iconic new Kunming Xiaoshao International Airport, the fourth-largest airport in China. Nancy's passion is creating integrated solutions where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.


Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Energy, Environmental Issues & Sustainability

16:15 - 17:15 - Panel Discussion: How are energy issues influencing airports' long-term development strategies?
Synopsis: Airports are energy intensive infrastructures that are operated 7 days a week and under a high demand of reliability for energy supply. Questions of energy supply, costs, grid reliability and environmental impacts are important for airports that need to develop their infrastructure that will be in operation for decades. As such, airports need to consider energy aspects when developing their airport. This is best done by developing and implementing a long-term energy strategy. The panelists from different world regions and airports will discuss the various aspects.

Audience will learn:

• Which are the key factors in energy management that are of importance to airports
• Which are energy critical airport operations or infrastructure to consider in strategies
• Key elements of energy strategies with relevance to airports

Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Energy, Environmental Issues & Sustainability

11:00 - 11:30 - Energy-efficient design strategies employed at airport terminals worldwide
Synopsis: Energy-reduction strategies for airports are intertwined with planning and operations strategies. Solutions involve focusing on total energy and greenhouse gas, beyond normal building systems outlined in LEED or BREEM. It is necessary to tackle the issues inherent in and unique to airports, including the energy hogs of preconditioned air and baggage handling, and to explore other energy-reducing strategies.

Audience will learn:

• Effective methods for energy reduction of terminal buildings
• Effective methods for GHG reduction airport-wide
• Operational strategies for energy reduction