Ingenieur Vol. 75 ingenieur July 2018-FA | Page 76

Green Airports Recognition Platinum award in
2017 for the category of airports with 25 million
passengers per annum (mppa).
CHALLENGES IN GREEN AIRPORTS
Sustainable energy systems development
is challenging. Hence, without commitment
and passion as key drivers, it is tough for any
organisation to excel in this area. Establishing
the stand and platform for energy management
plans and policies, and gaining the Management’s
commitment and support from top to down is
crucial in realising this intention. Top management
needs to pledge its commitment to continuously
improve sustainable energy management for
sustainable energy initiatives to be successful.
Without sufficient resources or financial funding,
the passion to implement the energy initiatives will
fade away. Each airport is required to establish an
Airport Energy Management Committee (AEMC)
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to continuously support, plan and implement
energy management plans. Justifications backed
by studies and analyses must be prepared
beforehand to convince the management of the
positive business and environmental impacts
towards the organisation to gain their confidence.
Communication is also important to convince and
engage with the stakeholders. We must always
take all processes step by step in order to achieve
the targets and objectives along the given timeline.
CONCLUSION
Continuous improvement efforts on planning,
training, competency development and
assessments will facilitate the growth of
sustainable energy initiatives at airports in order
for us to work in a better environment in the future.
Therefore, the journey must start now and moving
forward, we must adopt more sustainable energy
initiatives to materialise our intentions.