Air Quality Management
“Breath of fresh air in the city”
Our strategic goal: Improving air quality in cities in a direct way (by installing particle neutralisation systems) and indirectly (by reducing the time that car drivers spend searching for a parking space and by reserving spaces for shared and electric cars in our car parks).
Air quality is an extremely important issue for Interparking so we aim to purify the air in our car parks, for example by neutralising harmful particles and minimising the time car drivers spend searching for a parking space.
A first notable initiative was launched in April 2019 with the commissioning of a particle reduction system at the Beffroi car park in Namur, Belgium. Developed in collaboration with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, this system uses the positive ionisation process to capture the fine particles present in the ambient air. As a result, the ambient air is cleared of 50% to 70% of particles, 40% of fine particles, and 20% of ultrafine particles. According to air quality measurement firm Airscan.org, thanks to the system installed at the Beffroi car park, the concentration of particles inside the car park is lower than the average levels recorded outside. This was the first system of this type for the Interparking Group and the first to be rolled out in Belgium. Since then, 126 systems have been deployed in our car parks.
The air becomes better quality inside the car park than outside
The system can neutralize up to 70% of the particles present in the air
