Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Sepang, Malaysia. WDL were asked by British engineering consultancy Binnie, Black and Veatch to provide the services of a Technical/Utility Co-ordinator to join a small team, based at KLIAB’s project offices at Sepang, Malaysia; the construction site of the Four Billion plus US dollar new international airport for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

During construction, the workload focussed on identifying clashes between the 20+ unrelated design agencies of the main utilities on site. This involved the creation of a 3D data-based model from Contractors’ 2D drawings, upon which was run specially developed Clash Analysis software.

WDL prepared reports of identified clashes, coordinated solutions and liaised between contractors to resolve clashes. This assignment required extensive liaison and coordination between numerous unrelated design agencies to overcome conflicts and clashes between adjacent and sometimes converging underground systems alignments and structural locations.

Latterly, WDL were asked by the airport development agency: Kuala Lumpur International Airport Berhad to work direct to them to train airport operations and maintenance employees in the preparation and continuous updating of an airport wide Master layout of all underground services. We wrote a technical users manual and developed, planned, initiated and implemented a training program teaching airport employees in the concept and use of the specialised software used for the project and the preparation and continual updating of the airport wide 3D data based MasterPlan.