Question

Case study: Airport sustainability planning and design.

Airport chosen: Tokyo haneda airport.

Importance of sustainability on airport planning and design.

Write abstract and summary about the topic.

Answer 1

Haneda was an international airport which was functional until 1978 and also from 1978 to 2010.
Tokyo International has a very integrated designed building and structures which make it a succesfully sustainable airport. Designs and plannings must be done with keeping in view the future generation's accessibility of the natural resources and energy available to us today. Sustainable planning and design fully integrates sustainability into an airport's long-range productivity. The general  assessments of environmental resources and accessibility can be utilised to detect sustainability aims that will reduce environmental degradation, increase benefits, and look after social relations also.

SUSTAINABLE ACTIONS:

Use non-exhaustible resources.

Use vantilations and outdoor lights.

Recylce water and waste products.

Reduce enviornment degradation such as air and noise pollution.
Increased opportunity for social development and relations fufiling all the basic needs of passengers.

SUMMARY:

An airport is a building highly susceptible to extreme energy consumption and natural resource uses. Since, these are only available in paucity we have to favor sustainable design and planing of the airport building so as to avoid the total extinction of such resources. This means an airport must be designed in a way so as to salvage the available energy and resources in every way possible. One most common way to do this is to utilise the non-exhaustible energy such solar and wind energy; and to recycle as much as possible. Tokyo International Airport has many of such qualities such as proper ventilation and use of solar energy,recycling and waste management, lesser distance from taxi stand, etc. There are several more possibilities of developing a highly sustainable airport.