CrowdEd skiEs: aCCORding tO estiMates, by 2020 tHe aiRline industRy Will faCe a CaPaCity sHORtfall Of One billiOn PassengeRs.
“the industry is dependent on research in parallel, research has led to new thinking
and development and it has a horizon of a on how planes fly, moving away from the
decade or so,” he says. “but the manufacturers conventional method of landing – which
islAmiC influence
are led by the airlines and the airlines led by involves a series of inefficient “step downs” the unprecedented growth in China’s airport development prompted 35
the customers, so passengers and the local from cruising altitude. at some airports, Atkins to enter some 10 competitions for new airport terminals in recent
community can act as a hurdle to any unproven including london’s Heathrow and gatwick, years, winning half.
technology. the industry spends billions on aircraft now use the “continuous descent “some of these airport projects are already under
developing new products, but passengers still approach”, essentially gliding into land from way,” says Atkins’ director of urban planning
need to feel safe and familiar. Omega is testing cruising altitude. since aircraft burn considerably and design in China, ky Cheung. “one
the environmental viability of some emerging more fuel at lower altitudes, allowing a constant is being completed in yinchuan,
technologies that could offer a cleaner future.” gradient descent at a low power setting would which is in the only autonomous
but it’s not just the planes and where they save thousands of pounds of fuel per flight. muslim province in China. with
land that must be looked at. One less remarked What all this shows is that there is an this in mind, care was needed
upon aspect of the debate is how air traffic appetite among all involved in aviation to make not only in the function of our
control (atC) is organised. europe has 30 it cleaner, more efficient and less damaging to proposed designs, but also
separate atC organisations governing flights. local communities. given that the aerospace in considering the cultural
the result? according to the international air industry currently spends 15 per cent of its concerns of the local people.
transport association, traffic delays in europe total turnover on research and development, we brought cultural symbolism
amount to a quarter-million hours of extra and that airport design is now one of the main into the design, including the
flight per year. Richard branson is one of many crucibles of sustainable development, the onion domes and pointed arches
advocating that the system be abolished and a signs are good that this is one industry familiar to mosques.
single entity established to oversee flights, thus committed to and capable of maintaining “in this case, we were not
simplifying europe’s congested skies. sustainable development. repeating the gateways and arches
typical of Chinese architecture. we used
“tHe mAnufACturErs aRe led by tHe
new steel bending methods so that the long
span steel structures used the same motif as one would
aiRlines, and tHe aiRlines aRe led by tHe
see in any mosque around the world. we also included these pointed arches as
CustOMeRs – tHat stiflEs innovAtion”
part of the original 3d concept for the structure. the result has a unique muslim
flavour, as well as a very modern structural concept.”
Roger gardner

Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52