Roundtables

Arcadis
15:30 - 16:45 (Platinum 5)

From Ambition to Action: Creating an Industry Playbook for Sustainable Airport Infrastructure.
Airports are setting clear ambitions across net zero, circularity, resilience, nature and social value, but approaches to translating these commitments into capital project delivery remain fragmented. This interactive roundtable will explore the opportunity to develop a practical, proportionate and industry-led Sustainability by Design Playbook for airport infrastructure. Bringing together airport operators, designers, delivery partners and adjacent sectors. The discussion will test how a shared framework could translate sustainability commitments into consistent project briefs, design decisions, procurement requirements, gateway evidence and KPIs - while retaining flexibility for different airports, asset types and levels of organisational maturity. The ambition is to raise the bar across aviation, enabling leading airports to share good practice while giving smaller and less-resourced airports a clear, scalable route to stronger sustainability outcomes. Participants will be invited to help shape the proposition and consider how the industry could collaborate to develop, test and champion it beyond the event.