Gianluca Maestri
Gianluca has a master's degree in transport engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He has spent four years at Heathrow Airport and is currently involved in safeguarding and updating the master plan to ensure it takes into consideration the environmental and technical challenges that have emerged since COVID-19. He led the masterplan integration of multiple projects and prepared Heathrow for the introduction of future fuels.
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2 - Airport design, planning and development - 14:45 - 15:15
Planning sustainable infrastructure at Heathrow
Driven by the Heathrow 2.0 strategy that established our net zero route, Heathrow developed an updated version of the masterplan, which has airport decarbonization as one of the main objectives. By 2050, the goal is to reduce emissions by at least 80%, leaving around 20% of emissions to be removed from the atmosphere to reach net zero. This is expected to happen thanks also to the upgrade of our power network and surface access, the integration of sustainable aviation fuel, the development of hydrogen infrastructures and the replacement of older assets with new ones.
The audience will learn:
- Understanding how Heathrow plans its infrastructure to support net zero ambitions
- What are the main airport infrastructures needed to achieve net zero
- What are the future opportunities driven by future aircraft and air mobility
