Engineering Management for a Sustainable Future

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
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Introduction
The new Western Sydney Airport is anticipated to be a state of the art piece of infrastructure that
is designed and planned with the thinking that is along with the development and technology of
the 21st century. With the aviation demand of Sydney having been set to double over the next
two decades, the airport will aid Sydney in meeting this demand besides acting as a source of
employment alongside economic growth for the area (Nagel, Gipson and Ogundipe, 2017).
Forward thinking and best practice principles will be given an upper hand and though in the
design of the airport which will be a major transport hub thereby opening the gateway of
Western Sydney to the world (Mok, Shen and Yang, 2015). The airport is a huge and
sophisticated project having a significant takes with risk to its construction. Numerous
environmental conditions will need to be attained throughout the construction as well as
operations of the project. Elaborate work on the design of the airspace and flight path alongside
biodiversity and conservation of the natural resources will as well as considered doing the period
along with a continuous community consultation.
Western Sydney Airport will offer direct links to the world, creating opportunities for the
community as well as the residents to improve the connection of Western Sydney to the
economies of the world (Molamohamadi et al., 2017). The site of the airport at the Badgerys
Creek is situated in Western Sydney close to the New South Wall Government Western Sydney
Employment area, the South West Growth Area as well as the Western Sydney Airport Growth
Area. The airport will serve as an attractive site for business investments in Western Sydney
running from manufacturing as well as logistics all the way to education, hospitality alongside
other professional works and services.

It will allow business to have faster as well as more convenient access to markets located
overseas. For instance, manufactures of goods and exporters of perishable items would be able to
get to the markets located in Asia the following morning. Still, tourism will receive a major boost
with the airport offer what will be termed as better accessibility to the various destinations across
Western Sydney as well as the Blue Mountains. As the region undergoes growth, the airport will
be supportive of the success of Western Sydney on the world stage (Poff et al., 2016).
The Australian Government is working on the Western Sydney Airport located at Badgerys
Creek through a company owned by the government known as Western Sydney Airport and a
financial commitment to the tune of $5.3 billion has been made towards the delivery of the
airport. The airport is at the construction phase throughout which Western Sydney Airport will
hire the services of expertise from the private sector construction market (Guo, Surampalli and
Zhang, 2016). In as much as Western Sydney Airport has the sole responsibility of constructing
the airport, the department will endeavor to conduct its regulatory oversight roles on the project
ensuring it complies with the standards set out in the Airport Plan alongside coordination of the
design process of the flight path.
The approach that will be used for the design and development of the Western Sydney Airport is
outlined in the Western Sydney Airport Plan for stage 1 development. The Western Sydney
Airport Plan was determined by the Minister for Urban Infrastructure that offers the
authorization for Stage of the development of the airport which is a single runway facility able to
handle to the tune of 10 million passengers every year (Yan et al., 2017). The plan is inclusive
of the concept design, forecasts of air traffic, indicative airport zoning and layout, contours of
noise for the first and longer term development of airport. At least for 40 strict environmental