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Privatising airport operations can be a boon for wider economies - but is privatisation really to the benefit of all aviation stakeholders?

What does the future hold for the airport industry? We ask chief operations officer, Arjen Heeres, and business unit director, Marcel Dreef, at Quintiq for their thoughts. In 1997 in the Netherlands, five computer programmers began working on a new scheduling application for an aluminium hot mill operator.

Commercial drones on home turf represent a huge opportunity for business and a significant risk for air traffic control. While some countries forge ahead with new commercial drone regulations, the US Federal Aviation Administration has been criticised for its slow progress.

Riga International Airport, the biggest and busiest international airport in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, is located 10km west of Riga, the capital city of Latvia. It is one of the few European airports to attend both full service and low-cost airlines and attends.

China intends to develop a solar power station in space as part of its efforts to cut down greenhouse gases and tackle energy shortage, and E.ON plans to take two of its gas-fired power plants in Germany offline due to unprofitability.

Design Forum International (DFI) designs tea-leaf shaped blocks for Assam Government's new Directorate Complex in Guwahati.

New concepts and ideologies to counter growing urban concerns spearhead the 2016 eVolo award-winner - New York Horizon. Check out this concept and tell us what you think about it…

GlobalData researchers have found the top ten influencers in Power Generation, based on their performance online in the last 90 days.

Paradigm Design House collaborates with LUCEM light-emitting concrete to mitigate the contradiction between massiveness and lightness using translucency; in effect resulting in a first-of-its-kind experience for Jordon's boutique bank. Check it out…

A 2000 report by the World Commission on Dams showed a huge fall in popularity, leading some to declare the era of the dam was over. Almost two decades on and they are enjoying something of a renaissance. Andrew Tunnicliffe speaks with Professor Benjamin Sovacool about the impact dams have on the socioeconomics of a country and why corruption is often rife.

The Airports Council International has revealed the latest results of its annual Airport Service Quality Awards, recognising the world's most customer-friendly airports, based on 600,000 passenger surveys around the world.

At the start of this year, Australia's border authorities announced an ambitious plan to roll out biometric identification across all their international airports by 2020. In a "world first", international travellers entering the country will be processed via a completely unmanned system that uses fingerprints, iris and facial recognition.