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About Your Workshop Leader.

Bruce Rodway
Principal
BRUCE RODWAY & ASSOCIATES

Bruce has over forty years experience in the design, construction and maintenance of aerodrome pavements, gained initially with the Australian Government Department that had engineering responsibility for Australia’s civil and defence aerodromes and then, from 1989 as Chief Pavements Engineer for the Federal Airports Corporation until the privatization of government airports in 1998. Duties for FAC included and load rating of runways, taxiways and aprons at the Corporation’s 22 airports throughout Australia, which included 8 International Airports. Since 1998 he has been a private aircraft pavement consultant.

Post-Conference Workshops: Friday 12 February 2010

Workshop B: Turning a community asset into a commercial asset – mitigating investment risk with a comprehensive Airport Master Plan

With limited funding and the rising cost of capital, regional airports are struggling to capitalise on increasing regional air travel due to inadequate capacity and lack of security screening system to cater to jet services. With councils across the country slowly recognising that regional airports can be an asset to the economic development of the community, it is now more important than ever to develop a Master Plan that will turn your airport into a commercial asset. In this workshop you will join your peers seeking to understand both strategic and technical aspects of regional airport development to diversify income, ensure a return on investment and make the right investment decision. Bill, who was instrumental in the continued growth and expansion of Victoria’s busiest Airport (Mildura Airport), will share his experience and outline how you can recognise your cash flow potential.

8.30 Workshop Registration & Arrival Coffee

9.00 Part 1: Implementing a Profitable Business Strategy to Ensure Commercial Success

• Thinking strategically to develop realistic business recovery plans
• Developing a successful Airport Master Pan by understanding your core strengths and weaknesses
• Analysing operational shortfalls to implement robust operational controls

10.30 Morning Tea & Networking Opportunity

11.00 Part 2: From Strategy to Take-off – Ensuring Technical and Regulatory Compliance

• Looking at apron layouts
• Assessing runway safety
• Analysing paid car parking layouts and implementation
• Ensuring efficiency in airport charging systems

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About Your Workshop Leaders:

Bill Burke
CEO
MILDURA AIRPORT

Bill brings with him extensive experience in aviation, freight logistics and property development, having been instrumental in establishing the Virgin Blue Airline operations in Adelaide and a key executive of the fledgling and developing airline with significant input to the strategic direction of the evolving business. Bill plays a key role in the continued growth and expansion of Mildura Airport, which is currently undergoing development. Bill also holds a commercial pilots licence and multi engine command instrument rating.

Joern Schimmelfeder
Partner - Transport, Logistics & Defence
MIDDLETONS

Joern specialises in legal issues affecting the transport and engineering industries. He has dealt with a broad spectrum of clients including contractors, owners, manufacturers, builders, subcontractors and industry professional advisors. His speciality has been dealing with engineering and maintenance contractors, defence and aviation contractors and developers.

Joern frequently advises on the preparation and negotiation of contracts for the supply of aircraft parts, provision of outsourced defence services, major infrastructure works, long-term infrastructure maintenance and mining infrastructure maintenance. He also has extensive experience advising clients on consortium transactions and project finance documents.

Joern has undertaken projects in all states of Australia as well as advising on international transactions.

Workshop C: Adopting an innovative risk managed system - approach to incorporate accessibility, fire and life safety and essential services at regional airports

This workshop will focus on accessibility, fire and life safety and essential services maintenance, as applicable to airports. Join your peers in discussing development and management functions, including discussion of current and prospective legislation, responsibilities and strategies for achieving compliance at all levels.

1.30 Part 1: Accessibility - Ensuring an equitable and accessible environment with achievable design considerations to meet your project objective and compliance parameters

• Introduction - overview of legislation relating to accessibility and premises. Identifying the legislation framework of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) (DDA), the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 (DSAPT) and the Building Code of Australia.
• Analysing the objectives and implications of the DDA and the DSAPT.
• Understanding how the DSAPT affects regional airports and what the obligations are under this Act.
• Proposed legislation – Draft Disability (Access to Premises – Buildings) Standard 2009.
• Explaining why the Premises Standards have been proposed, the intent of this legislation and what the main changes to the BCA will be.

2.30 Afternoon Tea & Networking Opportunity

3.30 Part 2: Fire and Life Safety

• Introduction - Prescriptive vs. performance based building codes. The intent of building regulations is to mitigate risks to a level tolerated by the community. Traditionally building codes have been prescriptive specifically written to apply to a wide range of building types; this can often make them restrictive when they need to be applied to unique, ‘non-standard’ buildings. The Building Code of Australia is performance-based code allowing the fire safety precautions in a building to be tailored to each scheme by fire engineering, by addressing the specific risks arising from the project whilst taking advantage of any inherently safe aspects of the design.
• Airports are becoming more complex and multi functional spaces, with areas needed to be separated for security purposes. Presenting fire safety strategy for the intricate problem of security and evacuation in airport buildings.
• Due to the size of hangar buildings they usually are addressed as large isolated buildings by the BCA. A fire engineered design will better address the specific hazards associated with the very special features of this hangar buildings by addressing life safety in a more fundamental way than the prescriptive code, whilst still integrating architectural, structural, and M&E requirements.

4.30 Part 3: Essential Services - Meeting statutory obligations for ongoing safety, operation and maintenance of building essential safety measures

• Discuss responsibilities of building owners / agents, property / maintenance managers.
• Discuss legislation & statutory obligations with respect to the ongoing safety, reliability and maintenance of building Essential Safety Measures.
• Discuss inspection, testing, preventive maintenance, survey and record keeping of buildings Essential Safety Measures (eg. fire hydrants, emergency lights, exits & paths of travel) for the life of the building.
• Annual Reporting of Essential Safety Measures including various State requirements.
• Maintenance Schedule Determinations.

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About Your Workshop Leader:

Philip Chun is a multi-disciplinary consulting company providing building code, accessibility and fire and life safety consulting services to the construction and development industry. The Philip Chun philosophy and methodology includes adopting an innovative risk managed system-approach to the areas of building control, accessibility and fire engineering consulting. The outcome is successfully facilitating and ensuring design compliance and assessment services, encompassing all commercial, industrial, residential and high rise / large floor area buildings.