Stakeholder Engagement in Engineering and Asset Management at Sydney Airport and Other Airports

This paper analyzes the stakeholders' engagement in engineering and asset management at the Sydney airport while outlining the construction of other well-known airports. It focuses on the concerns raised by the firm, identifies ways to deal with the issues and outlines the possible results yielded from dealing with the problem.

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Introduction
Sydney Airport parallel runway is one of the most prominent projects established by the
Australian Government. Notably, different classes of stakeholders are conglomerated to form a
solid backbone to the project. The different stakeholders play diverse roles in the organization. In
fashion with this, the Sydney Airport community forum (SACF) is a major stakeholder of the
runway. The top executives here are elected by the Federal Minister for regional development
and Infrastructure. Naturally, airports serve to balance the transport and Tourism factors hence
draw a lot of revenue to the state. The government among other stakeholders, therefore, finds it
significant to bridge the Sydney's Airport system for substantial results. In regard to this, the
SACF pieces of advice the Sydney Airport, aviation authorities alongside the ministry on ways
to curb environmental issues and the methods used to evade noises yielded by the aircraft.
Notably, the runway involves the mechanization facilities as well as asset management
hence the concerned stakeholders ensures proper maintenance and working of the planes (Noble
2016). Additionally, they give insights to the authorities at the aviation firms to conduct a proper
communication channel to the surrounding community concerning the operations at the airport.
Notably, there are airports that connect with the Sydney airport and also are emulated by the firm
to correct of the prejudices developed at developmental phase. In regard to this, the Sydney
runway is capable to outline its future predictions concerning the firm through the way it
conducts its processes now. The paper, therefore, focuses to critically analyze the stakeholders'
engagement in engineering and asset management at the Sydney airport while outlining the
construction of other well-known Airports.

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Literature review
Analysis of Stakeholders Engagement
The different stakeholders in a hierarchical fashion play a significant role in the
engagement prior to and after the laying out of the Sydney Airport parallel runway. The
stakeholders are therefore categorically placed into three groups following a criterion set by the
company; which consisted of the Regulatory authorities, Economic authorities and the
Community and users. In regard to this, the different stakeholders focus to deal with the concerns
raised by the firm, identifies ways to deal with the issues and outline the possible results yielded
from dealing with the problem as outlined by Trischler & Lohman (2018).
Firstly, the regulatory authorities top the least among the stakeholder engagement in the
Sydney Airport firm. The concerns such as the careless spending of money during the day to day
activities without the guarantee of funding become phenomenal in the firm's case. Committing
the resources meant to expand the aviation authorities to other businesses however important
raises an alarm to the regulatory authorities. Additionally, any kind of needs could crop up and
faster attention is required from the regulatory authorities. The top management regulatory
authorities, therefore, work hand in hand with the government to lobby through the professionals
in the different organizations of the country. Additionally, the subject authorities ensure the
security of funding and facilitate proper use of the funds within the stipulated period of time. The
pieces of machinery at the Airport need proper maintenance to ensure the security of the
passengers and also workers. Moreover, the regulatory authorities serve to draft plans on the
requirements of law alongside keeping track of the timelines at the airport. Notably, the Sydney

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airport has a properly channeled law enforcement and everything happens within the law orders
as reported by Jardim et al (2015).
Secondly, the economic entities serve to address the concerns such as lack of freight
operations connections between the airport services as explained by Gatta & Marcucci (2016).
Additionally, the stakeholders canopied in the economic entities deal with the long time
constantly low growth evident beyond the first stage at the Airport. Sometimes the pax
predictions come lower than the purported initial revenue; this raises concerns to the entities. The
subject stakeholders, therefore, substantiate a conducive environment that offers the Sydney
airport services a competitive advantage than the other airports. This needlessly strengthens the
freight connections and eases the tasks on board. Additionally, the economic entities perform the
vigorous campaigns to target on the investment techniques and in this case contributing to the
expansive growth of the airport. Naturally, the increased population figures would mean
increased revenue coupled with the collaborative work done by the individuals. In regard to this,
the economic entities serve to come up with a documented facility that is presented by the media
to sketch out the potentiality of revenue given out by the individual citizens. The ideal outcomes
given by the economic entities would include allowing investment in the airport since it is
stipulated to produce viable and reasonable returns.
Thirdly, the community and users fall under the last category in the hierarchy of the
stakeholder's engagement at the Sydney airport parallel runway. According to Freestone & Baker
(2018),the major concerns addressed by the community or users include; the impacts of the air
and noise pollution to the environment, the major groups affected by such are humans and the
fauna found in the surrounding areas. Additionally, the traffic congestion becomes a concern that
needs to be raised by the communities or the users around the airport premises. In fashion with

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this, crowdedness at the public transport systems raises eyebrows to the community to foster the
implementation of the faster and less congested means of transport in Australia. Of significance
is the construction of the runway and in cases of disruption that occurs in the process, the
community is called upon to act.
The community is therefore put to task to select a group of people to investigate on the
requirements needed to enhance the community value concerning the ongoing project in their
neighborhood. Additionally, the task force is responsible to provide answers to the concerns of
the aviation authorities. The airport users also hold the media campaigns locally to keep the
public informed on the progress of the runway construction. The users serve a purposeful role in
relaying the information at the most visited locations such as the transport hubs and the shopping
centers. The community, therefore, provides community, therefore, provides enough support to
the airport users and the government alongside protecting the common people's interests in
investing in developments at the airport. The stepwise consideration of different ranks of
personnel, therefore, facilitates an easy analysis of the Airport condition according to Jardim et
al(2015).
Sydney parallel runway
Sydney airport being so close to the city, and the rapid globalization was already in place,
this gave more practicality to the construction of its runway at the Botany Bay at the reclaimed
land as cited by Harrington (2014). Notably, this protocol was already embraced in the 1960s
and 1970s when the north-south runway was extended as indicated by Yang, Zhang & Fu
(2015).In regard to this, the most preferred location was to be the west and east of the already
present runway. Therefore, the factors that were put into consideration was the cost of
construction, the physical impact of the runway to its environs and the operational requirements.

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According to Srisaeng et al (2015) ,the runway was constructed in a marine environment,
therefore, emulated the use of two methods; stone and manufactured units that consisted of a
sloping and a vertical perimeter of bulk filing and a structural steel framework that supported a
concretedeck.
The onset of runway construction was preceded by drafting of Environmental Impact Statement
in the year 1990. Impressively, the runway construction won the public's debate and interest due
to the greater number of submissions received. Additionally, a supplement draft was forwarded
to the government for the approval of the implementation and Environmental management plan
from the effects arising from the parallel runway operation (Heinelt 2018). However, an
approximate of AUS$210 million was awarded by the government to the Dredeco Pty Ltd,
Baulderstone Hornibrook Engineering Pty Ltd, and N.V. Baggerwerken Decloedt, Dredging
International N.V. & Zoon for the design and construction of the new parallel runway as per the
similar studies stated by Ramanujam & Balakrishnan (2015). Myburgh (2018) indicates that the
whole plan used 170 hectares of land that was reclaimed by using sand fills from the Botany Bay
that was pumped to the construction site through a floating pipeline.
Alternatively, water, road, and railway became options for the filling of sites during the
construction of the parallel runway according to Black, Roso, Marušić & Brnjac (2018).
Transport by rail was possible due to the proximity of the New South Wales State Rail Authority
to the runway construction site. However, the single branch line that already existed needed
upgrading to be able to comfortably handle the large quantities of sand. Additionally, use of
water transport needed unloading facilities that were temporary and that could be easily
destroyed after the construction as claimed by Janic (2017) .The use of ship-loaders proved to be
more tedious than any other method that would substantiate the refilling process. According to

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Josimovic, Krunic & Nenkovic (2016).The Environmental Impact Statement draft gave a rough
estimation that road gave the fastest support to accumulate resources important for success
throughway of construction of the airport runway in Sydney .The Sydney Airport runway
construction was in tandem with the policies put forward by the Australian government in regard
to the Environmental management (Josimovic, Krunic & Nenkovic 2016). Notably, the water
was an important resource at the Botany Bay which propelled the runway construction to be
strictly in accordance with water protection. The reports based on studies done at the proposed
site gave the consideration to the fauna diversity, the sea grasses protection alongside the quality
of the waters at the Bay. Extensive research was however done on the physical properties of the
sampled water at the Botany sites.
Brisbane International Airport
Brisbane International Airport construction consequently played a significant role in the
Australian government Aviation departments. This is the third busiest Airport in Australia and an
eight-year project that costed an approximate of $1.3 billion. Additionally, the Brisbane Airport
is in a stiff competition with the southern Melbourne and Sydney gateway counterparts in
accordance with the reports by Ramanujam &Balakrishnan (2015). The visionary State sees the
Brisbane Airport in 2022 to be exceptionally steering to greater heights of success and would
gain recognition to the world. Brisbane is radically growing with an extended 29 international
and national destinations with the handling of freight, and 32 airlines in the state. The two
terminals are however anchored by the services yielded by the traffic foundations put in place
across all airlines connections as cited in Fotiadis (2015).
In fashion with this, the Brisbane runway construction is characterized by sand shifting
phenomenon. Majorly, the passengers evidently feel the impact, especially those sitting next to

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the window as the plane is landing. The infrastructure at the terminus is characterized by the
large masses of sands accumulated together to form a heap that obstructs the location of the
runway as indicated by Myburgh (2018). Such kind of the nature of the land reduced the
efficiency during the construction of the project and has posted huge technicalities (Robins, Hall
& Stock 2015). In regard to this, a lot of money and energy was used to construct a now highly
substantial project at the Australian government. It has so far taken about 5 years to bring
facilitate the preamble of the construction of the runway proper. Otherwise, the construction of
the underpass beneath the taxiways meant for delivery vehicles is an allied project. The structure
will be built with key motives to lift an aircraft with the weight of about 710 tons as explained by
Jangri (2018).
The project, however, takes shape with the help of the experienced pilot with background
information knowledge of ports and harbors engineering as per the reports given by Black, Roso,
Marušić & Brnjac (2018). The engineers have therefore played a significant role in shaping the
Brisbane airport runway construction that is underway. Notably, the dredgers called Charles
Darwin were used to pump sand from part of the Moreton Bay on to the runway site (Robins,
Hall & Stock 2015) This way, the existing habitat for the flora and fauna in the environment
were highly protected. As the years gradually increase, the project gave a positive developmental
insight into progression. The proposal reports have it that by November 2018, the new runway
will have enough visual cues to give a significance to the project's milestone. This will, however,
be a step ahead for the Australian government among the visionary elements even though the
effects of human settlement is disturbed by noise pollution according to Eves & Blake(2016).
Moreover, the human elements never go unrecognized on the basis of Brisbane's project
facilitation according to Brisbane Airport Corporation statistics. More than 20,000 people come

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out to participate in offering human labor to the activities during the construction of the runway.
Additionally, the industry has opened up many other firms such as hotels, freight handling and
24-hour Brisbane supermarket that benefit both the people and the government as explained by
Wagen & Goonetilleke (2015). The major advances in Brisbane alongside the Airport
construction are the expansion of the Tourism sector and the improved infrastructure.
The future prospects of Sydney Airport parallel runway
The Australian airport looks into finding ways of combating the noise impacts that
emanate from the planes and also activities that are done at the airport. Noise pollution has form
part of a destroying factor to the ecosystem. This would improve the efficiency of the personnel
at the airport alongside protecting their health.
Additionally, the airport has the future objectives to protect the flora and fauna that
survive within its surroundings. Naturally, it is important to protect life alongside digging deep
into investing more to earn in business. This way the environmental baseline collection is
canopied and is seen to have a better future (Josimovic, Krunic & Nenkovic 2016).
Transport will be seen to improve by far at the Sydney due to the collaborative effects
yielded upon by the different forms of transport in the country. Business facilitation will,
however, be easier in the years to come provided that the Sydney runway takes its course. In
regard to this, crowdedness and delays will be reduced significantly in the country.
Forecasts on the community concerns will herein improve since the community forms a
basis for stakeholder engagement in the management sector at the airport. The concerns will,
therefore, be wholly tackled without discrimination as the task force will be put in place to
facilitate the process. The community forms a face to the development of the Sydney airport

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parallel runway, therefore, the latter is selflessly reliant on the community. The contributions put
in by the community will, therefore, be substantial at the aviation network fora as cited by
Reckien et al (2017).
Conclusion
Drawn from part of the discussion I would conclude that the construction of the Sydney
Airport parallel runway construction plays a significant role towards the expansion of economic
boundaries at the Australian government. Additionally, the construction would need more land
from the local community hence would lead to migration of the locals hence declined
productivity. Naturally, the speedy construction of the runway is substantial to reduce costs at
Sydney airport and its environs and this creates more room for investment by the locals. Notably,
the conclusion would best focus on the environmental sustainability protocol as far as the Airport
services are enjoyed. In a broad perspective, the airport presence in Australia serves to welcome
more visitors as tourists to the country, therefore, earning the country foreign exchange.
Additionally, the well developed and extended infrastructure would create more happy faces in
Australia. In respect to this, the engagement of all the stakeholders is vital for the success of any
firm.

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