The Environment Houses
Hosting and Inspecting
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A hospitality area for offering information and fostering exchanges, the Environment Houses offer all visitors information on airport complex activities, actions undertaken as part of the sustainable development policy conducted by Aéroports de Paris and the history of airport development.
They represent an essential tool in Aéroports de Paris' communication policy aimed at local authorities, residents and associations.
Visitors are welcomes in an area of close to 600 sq. meters that is rich in information. They especially have the opportunity to watch films covering the specialties of airport operations and the way environmental challenges are addressed.
Consequently, since 2005, the Environment House at Paris-Charles de Gaulle proposes a new interactive exhibition devoted to the airport area and its history, to airborne navigation and the principles behind it as well as a Resources area.
The public gains access to a set of viewing stations based around themes of interest to residents living close to the Environment House (the airport's environmental policy, its economics, the jobs, skills and training it offers, and noise insulation, etc.). The VITRAIL interactive tool can be used to view aircraft noise footprints and routes.
The Environment Houses are also designed to host the Consultative Environmental Commissions (CCE), a forum for discussions between all of the players involved in airport activities. These commissions are presided by the Prefect of the Paris Region (Île-de-France).
Monitoring and controlling: the Aéroports de Paris labs have three assignments:
- Outside inspection covering suppliers and service providers,
- Internal inspection : regulatory oversight and inspecting property.,
- La Environmental monitoring of aeronautical activities : The environment unit is tasked with monitoring the environmental impact of airport activities: aircraft noise, air quality, released water quality, water table quality and monitoring polluted ground areas. This activity is paid for by the Airport Tax levied at the main airports. In these same areas, the unit also undertakes the related impact studies, especially mapping noise (PEB, PGS and CES activities) and inventories emissions. The unit applies tools to ensure the acceptability of air transport by neighboring residents: an Overall Indicator for noise ceilings, placing raw data and flight paths on line, etc.
To do this, the lab has a network of air and water quality, as well as noise measurement stations (with 40 measurement stations devoted to noise alone).