New Civil Engineer - Catherine Kennedy
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has made the aviation sector’s efforts to develop its assets, while driving sustainability and innovation, more complex.
“Pre-Covid issues are going to be ones that need urgent resolution as part of the resumption of normal service,” says architect Pascall & Watson director Matthew Butters.
Once airports get back to around a 20% base level of business – the critical mass to get operations back in place – Butters suggests that their operators might then be able to start addressing these challenges.
“There’s a blank sheet of paper to allow the industry to draw out a way of working that might actually give a bit of a shift in the mindset of how we operate,” he adds...more
