Egis Avia (originally Sofréavia) is one of the major European companies dedicated to air transport and is offering the widest range of services, assistance and products in AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, AIRPORT and AIR OPERATIONS.

Since 1969 and through 40 years of excellence, Egis Avia has achieved more than 1,000 projects in 140 countries. Thanks to a cross-disciplinary approach, Egis Avia provides services adapted to the business needs of its clients from research and technology, consulting, engineering, operations to turnkey solutions.

Since 2007, Egis Avia is part of the Egis Group, a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts Group, which is among the major financial investors in Europe. Egis is an engineering and consulting group specialised in infrastructures and systems for transportation, local and territorial development, road and airport operation, water and the environment.

With a workforce of 7,300 worldwide and a turnover of €505m in 2008, Egis is active in more than 90 countries and has some 50 entities in France. It expects to post a turnover of €550m in 2009.

In an ever-changing aviation market facing growing pressure and constraints in terms of safety, security or environmental concerns, Egis Avia draws on a strong ex­pertise to take up tomorrow's challenges and support operational, technological and organisational evolutions.

Providing a wide-range and adaptive offer with a focus on safety and efficiency, Egis Avia offers customer-tailored solutions and services in:

Consulting & Engineering
• Support to strategic decision (institutional, economic and financial studies).
• Research and development (operational concepts, tests and validation).
• Systems and infrastructure engineering (technical studies, safety cases and human factors support).
• Infrastructure, equipment and operational systems engineering (support to implemen­tation and to operations improvement).

Turnkey projects
Egis Avia offers comprehensive solutions ranging from preliminary studies to com­missioning, training and after-sales services. This offer encompasses:
• Turnkey projects in the airport sector (ter­minal and airfield equipment, ATC tower…).
• Software solutions for ATM, aeronautical telecommunications and meteorology or controllers' training: air-ground data­link and AMHS communications (ProATN, DL-FEP, ATN ES) / multi-airport and multi-runway arrival and departure sequencing system (MAESTRO) / Aeronautical Infor­mation Management (AIM) and airport flight data processing systems (ATALIS) / ATC training simulators (SCANSIM).

Concessions and operations
Egis Avia takes an active part in airport concessions projects (strategy, investment, study…) and provides airport operations management on a worldwide basis.

Through the Egis Group, the company now operates 7 international airports and handles 11 million passengers and 200,000 tons of freight every year: Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire), Libreville (Gabon), Pafos and Larnaka (Cyprus), Brazaville, Pointe Noire and Ollombo (Republic of Congo).

Egis Avia has exported its expertise worldwide for over 40 years to opera­tors, regulators, surveillance authori­ties, industry, institutions, donors and training providers and is well known from its demonstrated capacities in all fields of air transport.

Airport
• Egypt: new control tower cabs for 3 air­ports (Cairo, Borg el Arab, El Arish).
• Qatar: Contractual and technical audit of the New Doha International Airport.
• Algeria: design of a temporary airport terminal to accommodate attendees of LNG16 International Congress in Oran.
• France-Switzerland: safety study prior to runway reinforcement at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse Airport.
• Ivory Coast: detailed design of new Hadj terminal in Abidjan Airport.
• Kazakhstan: technical assistance for the design of airport facilities on an uranium extraction site of AREVA.

Air Traffic Management
• European Commission: ATC operational training of South-Ring States.
• Airbus: Human Factor support for A380, A350 and A400M programmes.
• Eurocontrol: Improvement of perfor­mance of aircraft onboard collision-avoi­dance system / Support to the validation of airborne traffic situational awareness applications / support and operational implementation of approaches with EGNOS satellite vertical guidance.
• DSNA: Support to R&D / Support to en-route and approach systems integration/validation and deployment / Provision of Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) and flight data processing systems to 35 French airports.
• Europe: cooperation to international programmes reducing aviation's envi­ronmental footprint through optimised approaches (MINT, CASSIS II, CLEAN SKY).

Air operations
• European Commission DG-TREN: promo­tion of safety, security and environment of Civil Aviation in the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA).
• EASA: framework agreement for the pro­vision of consulting services to support the International Technical Cooperation Unit of the Agency.
• Kenya and Gabon: assistance to the Civil Aviation Authority.
• Ivory Coast: study for the creation of an aviation and meteorology Academy.

EgisAvia (Main office)
195 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
92138 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex
France

Phone: + 33 1 41 23 46 00
Fax: +33 1 46 38 26 78
E-mail: contact.egis-avia@egis.fr

http://www.egis-avia.fr


Contacts:

Christian ROGNONE
Deputy General Manager
Tel: +33 1 41 23 46 37
Fax: +33 1 46 38 28 34
christian.rognone@egis.fr

Ivanna Girard
Marketing & Communication Assistant
Phone: (33) 5 52 24 56 30
Fax: (33) 5 62 24 49 64
E-mail: ivanna.girard@egis.fr