Design & Construction
PARAS 0057 Airport Credentialing Office Planning and Design
This report is a consolidated source of strategies, methods, techniques, and practices for designing and constructing or retrofitting a credentialing office. It highlights practices that have been successful at airports around the country, and includes examples of unsuccessful practices to help airports avoid known challenges.
PARAS 0052 Planning and Design Considerations for International Arrivals Facilities: Implementing CBP's Airport Technical Design Standard
This guidebook is intended for the primary stakeholders involved in the design of international arrival facilities in the United States. It is specifically aimed at US airport leadership and individuals involved in the design and planning of airports. Readers will gain an understanding of the opportunities and lessons learned from others that have designed, constructed, or renovated an FIS facility at a US airport.
PARAS 0043 Security Operations Center Planning and Design
This guidebook provides a comprehensive approach to concept planning, designing, and building a Security Operations Center (SOC). It is applicable to both standalone SOCs and combined Airport Operations Centers.
PARAS 0037 Planning and Operational Security Guidance for Construction Projects at Airports
Airport construction projects and their specific security considerations vary significantly based on the project location, complexity of the airport/project, number of stakeholders engaged, and scope. This guidance is intended to help airports integrate security considerations as part of the general project life cycle, as well as identify specific considerations and mitigation strategies that could be applicable under certain circumstances.
PARAS 0034 Optimization of Airport Security Camera Systems
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to help airports refine and/or develop their video camera program and program goals; review the use of their existing camera and recording technology; make well-informed decisions when optimizing, expanding, upgrading, or replacing their video camera system; and ensure continued effectiveness and efficiency of these systems.
PARAS 0028 Recommended Security Guidelines for Airport Planning, Design, and Construction
This document represents the sixth iteration of guidance for the airport security planning and design community, first issued by FAA in 1996, continued by TSA, and last published by Safe Skies in 2017. Where there is a relevant, industry-accepted and publicly available guidance document, this document will reference, summarize, and include a hyperlink to it.
A second version of this document is available with referenced guidance documents embedded to enable viewing from within this document in an offline state. Due to the large file size, that version of the document must be downloaded from DropBox here.
PARAS 0014 Blast Mitigation Strategies for Non-Secure Areas at Airports
This guidebook facilitates the implementation of effective blast-mitigation strategies in non-secure airport areas to reduce risks and effects of explosive attacks. Each airport faces unique constraints, such as different vulnerabilities and risks, and varying sizes and financial capabilities. Therefore, this guidebook is not prescriptive but instead provides a process by which airports can implement the most appropriate strategies.
Additional Files: Framework Tool, Framework Tool Instructions
PARAS 0013 Minimizing Congestion in Public Areas to Mitigate Security Vulnerabilities
The objective of this Guidebook is to assist airports of various types and sizes to minimize traveler-related congestion that could be a viable target for acts of violence. The primary focus is crowd management during regular operations, though there is also guidance to minimize secondary targets created during incident response.
PARAS 0004 Recommended Security Guidelines for Airport Planning, Design, and Construction
This document was published in 2017 and represents the fifth iteration of guidance for the airport security planning and design community, first issued by the FAA in 1996 and 2001, and continued by the TSA in 2006 and 2011. PARAS 0028 (listed below) was published in 2021 and represents the most recent version of this guidance.
PARAS 0002 Companion Design Guide to US Customs and Border Protection's Airport Technical Design Standards
The CBP Airport Technical Design Standard (ATDS) is currently being revised to keep pace with new processes and technologies. Many existing facilities where CBP operates may not be easily adapted to changing market and processing demands. This Guidebook was developed to provide airports, airlines, architects, and planners with guidance to build more flexible facilities and future-proof assets that may need to last many decades.
An accompanying website for this report is available here.