Expertise matched to the brief
Agree the airport problem and assemble the specialist perspectives needed for that decision.
BESPOKE AVIATION & MASTERPLANNING CONSULTANCY
Expert aviation advice.
Shaped around your airport.
Led by industry veteran Gaurav Vatsa, Aeronova provides high-level strategic and technical advice to airport developers, contractors and consultants. Our Airport Subject Matter Expertise Development Cooperative Framework brings experienced aviation professionals together around your project’s decisions.
EXPERT JUDGEMENTGENERATIVE EXPLORATIONTRACEABLE EVIDENCE
AERONOVA TIATHE INTELLIGENCE LAYER
TIATotal Intelligence
for Airports
PLANDESIGNDELIVEROPERATEOPTIMISEfor Airports
One evolving brief.
Connected disciplines.
Accountable decisions.
DEVELOPERS · CONTRACTORS · CONSULTANTS
FREE PREVIEWS / BESPOKE CONSULTING
Explore the method.
Shape your assignment.
Try our generative design and specialist decision tools free. For your airport, we develop a bespoke consulting module tailored to the brief, evidence, specialist expertise and deliverables your assignment needs.
THE PRACTICE
Bring specialist airport judgement to every critical project decision.
300+ YEARS · COMBINED EXPERIENCE300+
Years of combined
airport planning & design experience
VETERAN LEADERSHIP. COLLECTIVE AVIATION EXPERTISE.
A bespoke practice.
A collective depth of experience.
Airports are long-term commitments. The decisions made today shape how people move, how airlines operate and how an airport grows for decades.
Our group of aviation professionals brings over 300 years of combined airport planning and design experience. We combine this judgement with AI, generative design methods and customised tools to help project teams evaluate options, resolve complex interfaces and make informed design decisions.
Our ambition is a paradigm shift in how future terminals and airports are planned. Veteran-led advisory, collaborative specialist reviews and the Aeronova TIA tools support that ambition from the first brief through design review and operational readiness.
Download the Aeronova company profile ↓OUR COOPERATIVE FRAMEWORK
Airport Subject Matter Expertise
Development Cooperative Framework.
The framework brings airport specialists and the client’s project team into a shared advisory process. Together, we define the challenge, draw on the relevant expertise, test alternatives and review the evidence. Structured reviews, mentoring and knowledge transfer develop the team’s airport subject matter capability alongside the project’s decision deliverables.
Collaborative technical review
Work with the appointed project team to test assumptions, compare options and resolve discipline interfaces.
Lasting capability
Leave a clear decision record and share the methods and reasoning so the team can carry the work forward.
THE AERONOVA FILM
The Sentient Airport.
A film introducing Aeronova’s vision for airport intelligence.
01 / THE PROPOSITION
Experience that informs.
Intelligence that explores.
We advise airport developers on strategic choices, contractors on delivery and design interfaces, and consultants on specialist airport requirements. Each engagement connects planning, terminal design, delivery and operational readiness to the client’s objectives and evidence.
Design with options
Decompose the brief, map constraints and compare feasible alternatives before a design is frozen.
Keep the brief alive
Track what changes when traffic, fleet mix, budgets, regulations or the operating concept move.
Find risk upstream
Test capacity, flows, resilience and interfaces while corrections are still possible.
Develop expertise together
Bring the right specialists into the review, reconcile their inputs and transfer knowledge to the client’s project team.
02 / THE SOLUTION SUITE
Specialist tools.
A common purpose.
Aeronova TIA — Total Intelligence for Airports — brings our specialist tools into one suite. Explore workflows for demand, capacity, terminal and masterplan options, programme delivery, energy and commercial performance.
Explore the modules to understand the inputs, compare alternatives and review decision outputs. Each demonstration identifies its assumptions and current capabilities.
GENERATIVE DESIGN & PLANNING
Explore more possibilities.
Make a better-informed choice.
Connect the airport brief, site and demand with terminal typology, masterplan alternatives and floor plans. Aeronova's generative design workspace helps developers explore the implications of design choices and bring options into specialist review.
Connected Aeronova application · Opens in a new tab · Concept options require project-specific review.
TERRA GENESIS / AIRPORT LANDSIDE DEVELOPMENT
The airport estate.
A wider field of possibilities.
Explore the real-estate component of the airport masterplan: land-use mix, development typologies, massing, architectural options and phasing. A local TERRA GENESIS preview demonstrates the method; a bespoke assignment adds your airport’s safeguarding, access, infrastructure and development evidence.
DESIGN MEETS OPERATIONAL READINESS
Rehearse the airport.
Challenge the masterplan.
Our Digital ORAT & Masterplan Validation tool brings the airport into an operational rehearsal environment. Follow passenger journeys, examine terminal pressure points, compare scenarios and explore how design choices affect the airport as a system.
Opens the Noida operational twin demonstration in a new tab. Scenario-based simulation; no live airport feeds.
QUESTIONS TO EXPLORE
- 01How does the airport perform under a different flight wave?
- 02Where do passenger journeys encounter capacity pressure?
- 03What should we test before committing to the next design stage?
From a planning assumption to a reviewed operational scenario.
03 / OUR APPROACH
From an evolving brief
to a defensible decision.
Our Airport Subject Matter Expertise Development Cooperative Framework brings planners, architects, engineers and commercial specialists together with developers, contractors and consultants. AI and generative methods support option exploration; named professionals evaluate feasibility, share expertise and document recommendations.
- 01
Frame the decision
Set the asset boundary, planning horizon, demand cases and acceptance criteria.
- 02
Build the evidence
Reconcile drawings, schedules, asset inventories and source documents.
- 03
Generate and test
Explore options against flows, capacity, cost, energy and commercial objectives.
- 04
Converge with experts
Review trade-offs, reject infeasible options and record the selected direction.
- 05
Transfer capability
Issue the decision record, assign actions and share the reasoning through working sessions and mentoring. Reopen the review when material inputs change.
04 / SELECTED DEVELOPMENT WORK
Explore the possibilities.
Understand the decisions.
Explore how Aeronova approaches airport challenges through specialist applications and studies. These examples show our methods in use; airport references identify development contexts, with simulation and historical study inputs labelled in each workspace.
NOIDA / DIGITAL TWIN DEVELOPMENT
See the airport as a system.
Airport geometry, movement playback, terminal journeys, facilities and training exercises in one extensive simulation demonstrator.
Included workspace · v31 simulation editionTERMINAL / DRAWING ASSURANCE
Read the plan. Find the failure.
PDF layout intelligence, stakeholder lenses, demand stress curves, coded findings and annotated route overlays.
Development kernels (v3.2.1, v0.4) · not included in this free preview — try the ASSURE reviewNUNGWI / STRATEGY & PLANNING
Connect demand to design.
Traffic cases, route and fleet logic, movement build-up, phasing and a reusable design-validation record.
Connected masterplan writer · greenfield and brownfieldMERIDIAN / PROGRAMME DELIVERY
Keep the programme accountable.
An assembled application spanning programme controls, document control, design management, ORAT and enterprise search.
Meridian v16 browser edition included · enterprise server separateGENESIS / CONCEPT INTELLIGENCE
Turn a brief into alternatives.
Demand decomposition, processor sizing, phasing, cost and financial scenarios, with report-generation workflows.
Standalone application · assumptions-led analysisRARE / RETAIL ENVIRONMENT
Explore the value of dwell.
Zone-based commerce simulation, activation scenarios and passenger analytics using Mumbai T2 and Delhi T3 reference models.
Simulation prototype · pilot validation requiredTHE FOUNDER & THE FRAMEWORK
Experience meets
a wider ambition.
Industry veteran and founder Gaurav Vatsa leads Aeronova’s advisory practice, drawing on 25 years in aviation. His CFCPD manifesto connects airport development to Culture, Finance, Community, Planet and Digital.
Gaurav Vatsa
Architecture, design leadership and delivery experience across major airport programmes in India and the Middle East.
Explore the founder profileThe CFCPD manifesto
A holistic framework for future airport development, with a focus on India.
Read the five-pillar frameworkThe complete manuscript
The expanded 248-page edition, written by Gaurav Vatsa.
Download the book · 3.4 MB05 / HOW WE ENGAGE
Start with one decision.
Build lasting capability.
Bespoke advisory engagements are shaped around your role, airport and decision timetable. The cooperative framework combines specialist advice, joint reviews and capability development; scope, deliverables and review responsibilities are agreed at the outset.
AIRPORT DEVELOPERS
Set the right direction.
Strategic advice from the development brief to the next investment or design decision.
- Masterplan strategy and phased development
- Terminal capacity and option appraisal
- Design governance and decision briefs
CONTRACTORS
Connect design to delivery.
Airport specialist advice at the interfaces between design intent and project execution.
- Constructability and package-interface reviews
- Technical alternatives and value evaluation
- Change impacts and delivery-risk advice
CONSULTANTS
Deepen airport expertise.
Specialist collaboration to strengthen the team’s airport planning and design capability.
- Airport subject matter and peer reviews
- Multidisciplinary coordination and assurance
- Mentoring and knowledge transfer
06 / THE AERONOVA LIBRARY