A REPORT

ON

AIRPORT DEPARTMENT AT RITES LTD.

BY

Name of the student I.D. No.

SHIVAM MITTAL 2010A2PS349H

AT

RITES LTD.
A PRACTICE SCHOOL-I STATION OF

BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE,

PILANI

JUNE, 2012
 A REPORT

ON

AIRPORT DEPARTMENT AT RITES LTD.

BY

NAME OF STUDENT I.D. No. DISCIPLINE

SHIVAM MITTAL 2010A2PS349H B.E. (Hons) CIVIL

Prepared in partial fulfillment of the

Practice School I Course

AT

RITES Ltd.
A Practice School-I station of

BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE,

PILANI

JUNE, 2012
 ABSTRACT

Through this report I have made an attempt to give a brief overview of

the airport department of the RITES Ltd. The report covers the

functioning and the importance of the airport department.

I have covered the different aspects of the airport department which

includes namely its aim, the need, the activities etc.

I hope the report is successful in giving you a brief idea of the airport

department.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO AIRPORT ENGINEERING

THE MEANING

THE AIM

AIRPORT DESIGNATION AND NAMING

AIRPORT STRUCTURES

AERODROMES

HISTORY OF AERODROMES

RANGE OF AERODROMES

RUNWAYS

PROJECTS UNDER AIRPORT DIVISION

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION TO AIRPORT ENGINEERING

RITES offers specialized consultancy services in the area of design, planning

and construction management of airports. RITES is registered with
Technical Assistance Bureau of International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) as a potential supplier of consultancy services in the airport sector
and is also an associate member of International Civil Airports Association,
AACI, France.
AIM:-

Master planning, site selection and obstruction surveys

Air traffic surveys, demand assessment and forecasting
Project feasibility studies & Environment Impact Assessment studies
Design and construction management of airport pavements, hangars,
workshop buildings and control towers
Non-destructive evaluation of airfield pavements using 'HWD"
Design and construction management of passenger and cargo terminal
complexes including HVAC systems
ATC systems design, communication and navigational aids, visual ground
aids
Baggage conveyor systems and airport equipment and Crash fire rescue
systems.

AIRPORT DESIGNATION AND NAMING:-

Airports are uniquely represented by their IATA airport code and ICAO
airport code.

Most airport names include the location. Many airport names honor a public
figure, commonly a politician (e.g. Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport) or a
prominent figure in aviation history of the region (e.g. Will Rogers World
Airport).

Some airports have unofficial names, possibly so widely circulated that its
official name is little used or even known.
Some airport names include the word "International" to indicate their ability
to handle international air traffic; this includes some airports that do not
have scheduled airline services (e.g. Texel International Airport).

Airport structures

AIRPORT STRUCTURES

LANDSLIDE AREAS AIRSIDE AREAS

Airports are divided into landside and airside areas. Landside areas include
parking lots, public transportation train stations and access roads. Airside
areas include all areas accessible to aircraft, including runways, taxiways and
ramps. Access from landside areas to airside areas is tightly controlled at
most airports. Passengers on commercial flights access airside areas through
terminals, where they can purchase tickets, clear security check, or claim
luggage and board aircraft through gates. The waiting areas which provide
passenger access to aircraft are typically called concourses, although this
term is often used interchangeably with terminal.
AERODROMES
The Meaning
An aerodrome is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place,
regardless of whether they involve cargo, passengers or neither. Aerodromes
include small general aviation airfields, large commercial airports and military
airbases. The term airport may imply a certain stature (having satisfied certain
certification criteria or regulatory requirements) that an aerodrome may not
have achieved. That is to say, all airports are aerodromes, but not all
aerodromes are airports.

A water aerodrome is an area of open water used regularly by seaplanes or

amphibious aircraft for landing and taking off: All pages with titles containing
"water aerodrome"

According to the International Civil Aviation) an aerodrome is "A defined area

on land or water (including any buildings, installations and equipment) intended
to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface
movement of aircraft."

History of aerodromes
In the early days of aviation, when there were no paved runways and all landing
fields were grass, a typical airfield might permit take offs and landings in only a
couple directions, much like today's airports, whereas an aerodrome was
distinguished, by virtue of its much greater size, by its ability to handle
landings and take offs in any direction. The ability to always take off and land
directly into the wind, regardless of the wind's direction, was an important
advantage in the earliest days of aviation when an airplane's performance in a
cross wind takeoff or landing might be poor or even dangerous. The
development of differential braking in aircraft, coupled with improved aircraft
performance, the utilization of paved runways, and the fact that a circular
 aerodrome required much more space than did the "L" or triangle shaped
airfield, eventually rendered the early aerodromes obsolete.

Range of Aerodromes

A private airstrip in the UK Pulkovo Airport in Russia

An airfield in Germany Hahn Air Base

What is ICAO?

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO is a specialized agency of

the United Nations. It codifies the principles and techniques of international
air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air
transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. Its headquarters are located in
the Quartier International of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The ICAO Council
adopts standards and recommended practices concerning air navigation, its
infrastructure, flight inspection, prevention of unlawful interference, and
facilitation of border-crossing procedures for international civil aviation. In
addition, the ICAO defines the protocols for air accident investigation followed
by transport safety authorities in countries signatory to the Convention on
International Civil Aviation, commonly known as the Chicago Convention.

The Air Navigation Commission (ANC) is the technical body within ICAO. The
Commission is composed of 19 Commissioners, appointed by the Council.
Commissioners serve as independent experts, who although nominated by their
states, do not serve as state or political representatives. The development of
Aviation Standards and Recommended Practices is done under the direction of
the ANC through the formal process of ICAO Panels. Once approved by the
Commission, standards are sent to the Council, the political body of ICAO, for
consultation and coordination with the Member States before final adoption.

The ICAO should not be confused with the International Air Transport
Association (IATA), a trade organization for airlines also headquartered in
Montreal, or with the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO), an
organization for Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) with its
headquarters at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands. These are
trade associations representing specific aviation interests, whereas ICAO is a
body of the United Nations.

Membership
ICAO members are 191 of the United Nations members and the Cook Islands.
The non-member states are Dominica, Liechtenstein, Niue, Tuvalu, Vatican City,
and the states with limited recognition.

Standards
The ICAO also standardizes certain functions for use in the airline industry, such
as the Aeronautical Message Handling System AMHS; this probably makes it a
standards organization.

The ICAO defines an International Standard Atmosphere (also known as ICAO

Standard Atmosphere), a model of the standard variation of pressure,
temperature, density, and viscosity with altitude in the Earth's atmosphere. This is
useful in calibrating instruments and designing aircraft.

ICAO standardizes machine-readable passports worldwide. Such passports have an

area where some of the information otherwise written in textual form is written as
strings of alphanumeric characters, printed in a manner suitable for optical
character recognition. This enables border controllers and other law enforcement
agents to process such passports quickly, without having to input the information
manually into a computer. ICAO publishes Doc 9303, Machine Readable Travel
Documents and the technical standard for machine-readable passports. A more
recent standard is for biometric passports. These contain biometrics to
authenticate the identity of travelers. The passport's critical information is
stored on a tiny RFID computer chip, much like information stored on smartcards.
Like some smartcards, the passport book design calls for an embedded contactless
chip that is able to hold digital signature data to ensure the integrity of the
passport and the biometric data.

Communication, Navigation, Surveillance / Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM)

systems are communications, navigation, and surveillance systems that employ
digital technologies (e.g., satellite systems with various levels of automation) in
order to maintain a seamless global air traffic management system

RUNWAYS
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome
prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made
surface (often asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (grass,
dirt, gravel, ice, or salt).Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which
is generally one tenth of the magnetic azimuth of the runway's heading: a runway
numbered 09 points east (90), runway 18 is south (180), runway 27 points west
(270) and runway 36 points to the north (360 rather than 0).When taking off
from or landing on runway 09, a plane would be heading 90 (east).

At large airports with more than three parallel runways (for example, at Los
Angeles, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, Denver,
Dallas-Fort Worth, John F. Kennedy, Orlando, and Phoenix Sky Harbor) some
runway identifiers are shifted by 10 degrees to avoid the ambiguity that would
result with more than three parallel runways. For example, in Los Angeles, this
system results in Runways 6L, 6R, 7L, and 7R, even though all four runways are
exactly parallel (approximately 69 degrees). At Dallas-Fort Worth, there are five
parallel runways, named 17L, 17C, 17R, 18L, and 18R, all oriented at a heading of
175.4 degrees.
Runway dimensions vary from as small as 245 m (804 ft.) long and 8 m (26 ft) wide
in smaller general aviation airports, to 5,500 m (18,045 ft) long and 80 m (262 ft)
wide at large international airports built to accommodate the largest jets, to the
huge 11,917 m (39,098 ft) x 274 m (899 ft) lake bed runway 17/35 at Edwards Air
Force Base in California a landing site for the retired Space Shuttle

PROJECTS UNDER AIRPORT DIVISION

Ongoing Projects
Consultancy Services for the Feasibility Study for 2nd runway at Sir
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport.
Location: Mauritius, Client: Airports of Mauritius Co. Ltd.
Project Management Consultancy for Construction of Aircraft Maintenance
Hangar at Indira Gandhi International Airport
Location: New Delhi, Client: National Aviation Company of India Limited
Prime Consultant for Navi Mumbai International Airport (LBG-INECO-
RITES consortium)
Location: Navi Mumbai, Client: CIDCO
Engineering Consultancy for Techno Economic Feasibility Study, Preparation
of Detailed Project Report and Detailed Engineering for operationalization
of Tura Airport
 Location: Tura, Meghalaya
Assignment name: Relocation of Tsabong and Hukuntsi Airfields, Botswana
Narrative Description of Project: Feasibility study, Master Plan, Preliminary
Design, cost estimates, detailed design and tender documents and
construction supervision of Tsabong and Hukuntsi Airports.
Location: Botswana, Client: Civil aviation Authority, Botswana
Assignment name: Development of new airstrip associated pavements and
allied works at Azamgarh (U.P.)
Narrative Description of Project: Planning, design, detailed engineering and
construction management for Development of new Airstrip at Azamgarh.
Assignment name: Up-gradation of existing airstrip and allied works at
Chitrakoot (U.P.) Narrative Description of Project: Planning, design, detailed
engineering and construction management for Up-gradation of Existing
Airstrip
Assignment name: Consultancy and Project Management Services for
constant. of infrastructure facilities for SRE Radars of PHASE - III
WORKS at 18 IAF sites Narrative Description of Project: Preparation of
tender documents and Project Management Services

Planning design and construction management of Border Management

Projects at various locations on Indo-Nepal & Indo-Bangladesh borders.
Indo-Myanmar and Indo Pakistan Border

Completed Projects
Feasibility study for operationalization of 33 Non-operational Airports in
India:
Client: Airports Authority of India, Location various locations in India
Consultancy services from concept to commissioning for new airport for
Boeing 737/Air Bus A320 operations.
Client: Uttar Pradesh State Civil Aviation Department, Location: Etawah,
India
Planning & Design of new passenger terminals at Varanasi & Bhunter.
Client: National Airports Authority of India Location: India.
 Design, up gradation and construction Management of Maun Airport,
Botswana
Client: Ministry of Civil Aviation, Location: Botswana
Master Planning, Feasibility and Detailed Engineering for relocation of
Serowe & Palapye airports.
Client: Ministry of Civil Aviat, Location: Botswana
Improvement to runway and associated aids/facilities and expansion of
terminal building at Djibouti International Airport.
Client: Ministry of Civil Aviation, Location: Djibouti
Study & identification of 13 key areas for rehabilitation of airports,
communication and air navigation systems.
Client: Ministry of Civil Aviation, Location: Angola
Feasibility Study of maintenance and air traffic control facilities for Aden
International Airport.
Client: Government, Location: Yemen
Master Planning, design and detailed project report for Paro International
Airport.
Client: Civil Aviation Location: Paro
Reconnaissance study and Master Planning for new international airport in
Efate Islands.
Client: Government, Location: Vanutu

Consultancy Services from Concept to Commissioning for New airports at:

 Pithoragarh, Uttarkashi, Gaucher, Shravasti, Palia, Meerut, Moradabad,
Kasia
Client: State Government, Location: Various Locations, India
Consultancy Services for Master Planning & Feasibility Studies of Airports
at;
Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Sidhudurg (new international airport for Boeing
747), Tirupati, Vijayawada, Belgaum, Calicut, Ranchi, Gadchiroli, Buldana,
Parli, Parbhani, Parule, Mahad, Shirdi, Port Blair, Mangalore, Pipavav.
Client: NAAI, State Government, Location: Various locations, India
Planning, Design and Construction Management of new passenger terminals &
Other Buildings at;
Pune, Coimbatore, Gwalior, Dimapur, Raipur, Bagdogra, Tezpur, Port Blair,
Lilabari, Agartala
Client: NAAI, State Govt. Location: Various Locations, India
Due-diligence study for the long-term leasing of 4 International Airports at
Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.
Client: NAAI, GOI, Location: Four Intn'l Airports, India
Consultancy and Project Management services for construction of
infrastructure facilities for SRE Radar at eight Air force Stations
Consultancy services from Concept to Commission for new airport for Airbus
A320 Operations., Client: UP State Civil Aviation. Location: Etowah,
Feasibility Study, Detailed Engineering and preparation of tender documents
for the improvement of existing airports at Francistown and Selibe-Phikwe
Airports.
Client: Ministry of Civil Aviation, Location: Botswana,
Assignment name: Development of new airstrip associated pavements and
allied works at Moradabad (U.P.)
Narrative Description of Project: Planning, design, detailed engineering and
construction management for Development of new Airstrip at Moradabad
Assignment name: Up-gradation of existing airstrip and allied works at Kasia
(U.P.)
Narrative Description of Project: Planning, design, detailed engineering and
construction management for Up-gradation of Existing Airstrip
 Assignment name: Resurfacing of existing runway, associated pavements and
allied works at Faizabad (U.P.)
Narrative Description of Project: Planning, design, detailed engineering and
construction management for Resurfacing of Existing Airstrip
Assignment name: Resurfacing of existing runway associated pavements and
allied works at Meerut (U.P.)
Narrative Description of Project: Planning, design, detailed engineering and
construction management for Resurfacing of Existing Airstrip
Assignment name: Resurfacing of existing runway associated pavements and
allied works at Shravasti (U.P.)
Narrative Description of Project: Planning, design, detailed engineering and
construction management for Resurfacing of Existing Airstrip
Assignment name: Resurfacing of existing runway associated pavements and
allied works at Sultanpur (U.P.)
Narrative Description of Project: Planning, design, detailed engineering and
construction management for Resurfacing of Existing Airstrip
Assignment name: Construction of infrastructure facilities consisting of RCC
framed towers & buildings at eight Air Force Stations: Jamnagar, Halwara,
Sirsa, Bareilly, Bhuj, Bidar, Hasimara and Kalaikunda

Narrative Description of Project: Preparation of tender documents and Project

Management Services

REFERENCES

1) Google (www.google.com)

2) Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)

3) Annex 14, Volume I (Aerodrome Design and Operations)

4) Airport Division @ Rites