CivE alum honoured with Engineering Medal
Engineering Medal – Management Category |
Lloyd Alexander McCoomb | CivE 6T8 | Adjunct Professor
With more than 35 years of experience in transportation and engineering management, Lloyd
McCoomb is recognized throughout the world as Canada’s leading practitioner in airport
planning, functional design, finance, implementation and management.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), Dr.
McCoomb manages a large, multi-disciplinary, non-share corporation with annual revenues
topping $1 billion, an operating budget of over $570 million and 1,300 professional and support
staff. Since assuming leadership in 2007, he has set a new strategic direction for the airport
authority, focusing on competitiveness, gateway development and corporate sustainability. This
forward thinking has greatly helped the GTAA to navigate the current economic downturn while
preparing to take maximum advantage of the coming recovery.
In 1997, as the GTAA’s Vice President of Planning and Development, Dr. McCoomb managed
the planning, design and construction of the $4.4-billon revitalization and major expansion of
Toronto Pearson International Airport. The project consisted of a $1-billion terminal, two new
runways and associated taxi-ways, a new infield development, new fire halls, a new support
building, new approach roads and bridges, new control towers, and the coordination of all
activities. It is considered one of the largest infrastructure undertakings in North America, made
all the more challenging by having to meet an aggressive delivery schedule within budget, while
continuing to offer quality and safe service to over 30 million passengers each year.
Prior to joining the GTAA, Dr. McCoomb was a leader within Transport Canada, where he
excelled in the areas of urban transportation research, ground transportation projects, the
environmental assessment process, and transportation safety and security.
He helps to train the next generation of Canadian transportation engineers as an Adjunct
Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto.
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