Analysis Of Heathrow Airport

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Introduction

I have chosen Heathrow Airport for my report because it is one of the most implausible airports in the world. It is used by more than 90 airlines flying with numerous passengers to 170 destinations.
In my report, first of all, it will be conducted a small background of Heathrow airport, then we demonstrates the environmental impacts on noise, air, water, waste and biodiversity. Current management policies and strategies are evaporates in details of Heathrow airport and how airport can make improvement in some areas is concluded at the end.

Background
Heathrow Airport started during World War I. The Air Ministry took the control of Heathrow to build up as a Royal Air Force transfer station in 1943. The land was taken from Harmondsworth and construction started in 1944. Wimpey Construction built the new airport and it was named as Heathrow from the hamlet. The Royal Air Force didn’t use the airport ever and the control shifted to Ministry of Civil Aviation in 1946. The Minister of Aviation, Lord Winster, opened the airport officially in 25th March 1946. On 31st May, 1946, the airport was started using publicly. By 1947, it had three runways and another three was under construction. Queen Elizabeth II launched first modern runways in 1953. Quenn Elizabeth II also launched Europa Building, which is currently known as Terminal 2, in the year of 1955. Again in 1961, Oceanic Terminal, which is known as Terminal 3, was unfastened to deal with the flight that departure for long-haul routes. By the time, Terminal 1 was also launched in 1968. In 1970, cargo terminal was constructed and connected to Terminal 1, 2 and 3 by a tunnel. There was much more development process going on from the year of 1970 to 1990 including expan...

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...y and strategy for each area to minimize the impacts on environment for proving green London.

To reduce emission, the owners of the Heathrow should come up with a system of policy of penalties for polluting vehicles as well as make an introduction of charges to promote using of lower emissions aircraft. They can also improve by employing using of covered vehicles for transportation and wheel washing with damping down to minimize the dust emissions.

For the improvement in biodiversity areas, the airport should make a group for rescuing important species and do pond replacement and refurbishment. Besides, to minimize hydrological and ecological changes, they should have a design of river channels.

Airport should have demonstrate more and powerful actions to tackle the impacts on its environment as its affecting public health which is more concerned for a country.

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