Project Title & Location
MANILA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Pasay City, Metro Manila

Client
BUREAU OF AIR TRANSPORTATION - MIA DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Pasay City, Metro Manila

Project Completion
1981

Associated Firms
Urban Designers Associates, Inc.

Services Provided
- Environmental scanning
- Threshold analysis
- Master plan concepts and utility framework

The planning of the Manila International Airport marks the beginning of a total effort by the Philippine Government through the Bureau of Air Transportation to rationally and fully develop the airport system in the country. In its entirety, the program for the development of the MIA involves a series of sustained, interdisciplinary, and inter-agency effort that spans several planning stages. The conceptual phase to development planning and detailed engineering concentrated on analyzing thresholds to development.

Specifically, the MIA Complex Development Project is directed at completing the first phase of this total planning effort - the formulation of a conceptual Master Plan that will provide the framework for the MIA property.

The task of preparing the Conceptual Master Plan had been defined both by the nature of its output and the length of time allowed to complete the work. The Conceptual Master Plan provided a general, long-term view of how the Complex should be developed.

Infrastructure outside the complex, but have a large influence on the proper operations of the airport facilities were recommended for improvement early enough in order to avoid grave disfunctions.

The regionalization of international airport functions to decongest the Manila International Airport was also recommended. This gave emphasis to Cebu, Laoag, Davao and Puerto Princesa as alternative international airport.