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Brazil will soon host the two major sports events throughout the world: the Football World Cup and the Olympic Games. Therefore several ventures are in planning and some are already in implementation. The first phase of these projects is the deployment, where several activities of civil construction are developed. The activities in general are developed in consolidated urban areas, treating very often modification of an urbane important installation. Thus, in this initial phase are executed activities of demolition, cleaning, preparing the land, foundation and piling, which are considered noisy for people, causing great discomfort to the existing community around the construction site. The objective of this paper is to present some information about the noise generated by the activities of civil construction and how to manage the environmental impact sound generated by the machinery and equipment used in these activities.

Aircraft noise is considered to be one of the most difficult environmental problems to be mitigated from the airport operations. The ICAO study group has presented an approach with four proposals to manage this problem at each site – the “Guidance on the Balanced Approach to Aircraft Noise Management” –, but even with this document, the airport managers still have to do their plan of action to address the most problematic ones (cases where there is more than one airport under the same administration). In this way, this paper attempts to propose a methodology to help to identify what would be the equivalent aircraft movement in a month for each site. The hypothesis is that this indicator number will express how close the airport operation is to the Balanced Approach proposals. And to calculate it, this methodology uses the number of movements identified by Chapter 2 or Chapter 3 and by day or night for a given period.