Characterised by their individual urban and social context, local values and their attractiveness to airlines, developers and businesses, every airport city development is unique. This fact is at the heart of NACO's approach to airport city planning and advice.

With over 50 years of experience working with airports as an international consultancy and engineering firm, NACO has played a central role in developing Amsterdam Schiphol's airport city and is advising airports such as Shenzhen Bao'an and Kunming on their future developments projects.

NACO's aim is to create a distinctive business environment that is attractive enough to lure high-end commercial developments to the airport property. At the same time it should reflect the unique characteristics of the region or country.

With a 'no-nonsense' approach to design challenges, NACO has avoided the development of a generic, anonymous and context-less environment - a successful airport city requires a tailor-made approach, composed of analysis, strategy definition and implementation.

In order to achieve a sustainable framework for the spatial quality of the landside area, planning by means of a business concept is supported by a vision on the typology of the specific urban area.

Developing conceptual frameworks contributes to the integration of the urban fabric, landscaping, parking and accessibility to achieve a high level of urban quality and a distinctive identity.

NACO's methodology offers airports, governments and private developers a revolutionary view on an airport city, to guarantee both the spatial quality of the urban environment and the quality of business developments in the short- and long-term.

Sustainability principles are an integral part of its approach with the engineering giant able to produce platinum LEED certified designs. As an active member of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) NACO has also helped to establish the 'Airport Annex' for this organisation.