Capital Investment Plan 2009 - Heathrow Airport

6.2 Discussions on Future Developments (Q6 and beyond)
HAL are committed to ongoing consultation with the airline community on the
development of the Capital Investment Plan and Masterplan for Heathrow under the
provisions of the Annex G commitments. The aim, as introduced in section 2.3, is to
jointly develop investment plans for Q6 and beyond that have a high level of confidence
in respect of; scope, cost, and schedule, by the time CIP 2011 is published.
In order to help achieve this a number of ongoing consultative working groups are
being held with the airlines. These groups feed information for decision into the
Strategic Choices meetings.
6.3 CIP Development Process
During the last quarter of 2008 HAL has undertaken work to define the new process for
the compilation and maintenance of the CIP.
The process agreed with the airline community at the JST 39
recognises formally that a
project will go through three distinct stages;
a) Identification of strategic aspirations (which will generally be done for a business
or geographical area such as Cargo or Western Apron.) This stage will not be
shown in the CIP appendices.
b) Development of strategic solutions for projects that individually or collectively
meet the aspirations.
c) Detailed delivery of the projects through the DGS / IGS 40 process.
The status of the projects during the middle stage above will be subdivided into;
• Pre-Outline
• Outline, and
• Developed
The appropriate one of these classifications, or the relevant DGS / IGS stage, is shown
on the Project Definition Sheets in the appendices.
A further element of the new process is the Airline Engagement Status Marker which
also recorded on the Project Definition Sheets. Further information on the marker is
given in section 6.4 below.
6.4 Airline Engagement Status Marker
A key element of the new process for the development of the CIP is the inclusion of a
snapshot marker of airline community engagement with particular projects.
Figure 8: Airline Engagement Marker shows how this classification (Red, Amber or
Green) is determined between BAA and the Airline Community. The methodology
outlined below was agreed at the CIPWG 41 .
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Joint Steering Team held 8 th December 2008
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The Design Great Solutions (DGS) / Implement Great Solutions (IGS) process is the standard
project delivery methodology adopted by HAL, and in particular the Capital and Solutions
directorate. The key aspect of the process, from an airline community and consultation
perspective, is the use of decision gateways known as; Brief Decision, Options Decision and
Construction Decision.
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CIP Working Group held 18 th December 2008.
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