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Airport security: Trying to prevent the worst from occurring while protecting from its deadly consequences
Journal of Airport Management,
12
(2),
144-156
(2018)
Abstract
Designing airport facilities and systems, from greenfield or for renovation or extension purposes, requires a perfect knowledge and understanding of airport operations, regulations and business models. It also needs to anticipate operational, technological and regulatory evolutions, to design sustainable facilities and optimise in the long run CAPEX (capital expenditures) and OPEX (operation expenditures) perspectives. Many standards apply in airport engineering, but paradoxically, one sensitive field of airport design and management has been underestimated in the past decades and is now under great focus since the occurrence of recent terrorist attacks, that is the building’s passive security. In fact, terrorist modus operandi became more and more resolute and aim, through powerful blast and ballistic vectors, at performing maximum devastation. They incidentally produce structural damage to buildings and consequently increase injury and fatality tolls in confined areas such as landside public halls. This reality, that became a permanent and complex parameter of the airport security equation, is now dealt through the ‘security by design’ reflections driven by civil aviation international regulators. This paper gives an overview on the subject and proposes directions for reflection when considering the passive security of buildings and ‘security optimised’ designs as a core element of airport security.
Keywords: security; design; building; blast; protection; airport
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Author's Biography
Franck Martin has been working in the aviation industry since 1990, in both the airline and the airport sectors. After Franck obtained his master’s degree in business and management from Paris Dauphine, and, following one-year of comprehensive station manager training at Air France in 1990 he successively occupied several executive positions in various countries in charge of Air France airport operations and business development. Between 2004 and 2007, Franck was the head of the Property and Premises Protection Section at the Air France Security Headquarters, in charge of monitoring and enhancing the prevention and protection processes in relation to threats and risks to persons, aircrafts and facilities on Air France’s international network. He was also Deputy Manager for the Security Technical Expertise Department, which was composed of security auditors assessing the international airport facilities and subcontractors on Air France’s international network. Between 2007 and 2013, Franck was Lorient Airport Managing Director, managing both the airport and the ground handling company. He joined ADP Ingénierie as Security Project Manager in April 2016. His task is to enhance the integration of aviation security in airport designs and contribute to developing innovative security concepts, in line with ADP Ingénierie’s broad expertise in airport design. Franck received the ICAO National Inspector certificate in December 2017, after he completed the specific ICAO training related to the audit and inspections of the Aviation Security (AVSEC) programmes related to ICAO Annex 17.
