Like an aging Hollywood diva attempting to attract new roles, Los Angeles International Airport is getting a $1.5-billion makeover in order to better appeal to airlines and customers. A gleaming 1.3-million-sq-ft addition to the Tom Bradley International Terminal, dubbed Bradley West, headlines the city's largest public-works project.

照片礼貌
Soaring希望机场官员在新的现代码头建筑物上固定改造的洛杉矶国际机场的声誉。

“This is an effort not to grow the existing airport but to grow the quality of service,” says Michael Doucette, chief planner with the airport operator Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA). The Bradley West project will replace more than half of the 27-year-old existing terminal, including the north and south concourses, but will retain the core building while expanding west.

新航站楼将每小时处理4,000名乘客,或者比当前容量高30%。目前的100万平方英尺,12扇门码头每年为1000万旅客提供服务,其中许多人被公交车乘坐9颗卫星大门。

The existing terminal received an interim $723.5-million interior face-lift, completed last year by a joint venture of Clark Construction Group LLC and McCarthy Building Cos.Inc. Dallas的Walsh Construction Co.和Austin Commercial Inc.的合资企业现在持有两家危险经理合同,总计12.6亿美元,拥有1.2812亿美元的所有者应变。

沃尔什·奥斯汀(Walsh Austin)合资企业在2010年2月在130万平方英尺的18盖特项目上破土动工。由丹佛总部位于丹佛的Fentress Architects设计,这座七层楼高的Bradley West建筑具有311,000平方英尺的拱形铝制屋顶垂直玻璃和倾斜的玻璃,提供无柱的空间以及飞机场和山脉的景色。重叠的波浪状形式唤起了海洋。杜塞特指出,必须将各种弯曲面板形成异地并精确地设置在位置。

The new terminal will fulfill Qantas' and other carriers' demands that LAX accommodate more supersized planes, such as the Airbus A380. Nine of the 18 gates will accommodate the double-decker aircraft. “We will open up one north gate early to accommodate Qantas flights by late 2012,” says Doucette.

1,531英尺长的100英尺宽的建筑要求拆除滑行道,并由1.75亿美元,3,758英尺长,400英尺宽的新出租车取代。它标志着TBIT和拟议的新中场卫星大厅之间的双出租车车道系统的第一部分。

“This is a large project dead-center on the airport property, directly adjacent to the existing terminal building, with very little downtime because it's an international terminal,” says Joe Thompson, project principal with Walsh Austin JV. “As a result, there is almost no staging space on-site. We have three storage and laydown properties off-site, about two miles away, and we're looking to add a fourth property.”

180英尺高的布拉德利·韦斯特(Bradley West)将由新的4.38亿美元的中央工厂提供服务,该工厂将取代机场现有的50年历史的工厂。Clark/McCarthy合资公司是设计建造承包商。T形综合体位于Lax主题大楼以西,将容纳8兆瓦的共同生成动力装置,再加上160万加仑的热储能罐,9台锅炉和9台冷水机,共有20,000吨冰冷的水容量。它的效率将比机场现有的中央工厂高25%。

Syska Hennessy Group Inc.高级副总裁William Larwood说,不仅在该地区仍在该地区罕见的设计建筑,还可以用于机械工程设计设计。