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Since the 1960s, when we developed the unique stress skinned double-cantilevered roof system for the Jumbo Jet Superbay Hangars at the Los Angeles and San Francisco airports, we have continued to innovate light-weight, highly constructible designs for a wide range of aviation applications. We have used extensive expertise in long-span structures to meet the most structurally rigorous challenges of airport design, with a full range of engineering services for terminals, hangars, support facilities and parking structures. Central to our work approach is close collaboration with the architect and project team so that the structural materials, forms and systems serve to deliver the building function and vision, on time and on budget. Several of our projects have achieved LEED certification.
We have worked in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East on a wide range of long-span designs, and are designing a dual maintenance hangar in Doha, Qatar with 600-ft and 725-ft spans, among the world’s longest. We designed the first hangar maintenance facility in the Western Hemisphere for the Airbus A-380, for Federal Express in Memphis, Tenn., with a 400-ft span.
We have mastered every relevant long-span technique, including cable suspended systems, space frames and trusses, air-supported tensile structures, and laminated wood systems. Complementing our structural design is our suite of advanced steel detailing services.
In addition, we provide curtain wall design and detailing, and analysis and investigation services, specializing in failure investigations and blast consulting, renovations and retrofits.
By 2015, every major airport in the U.S. will require major expansion to meet new capacity and security requirements. With our broad range of services in structures, curtain wall, analysis and forensics, we uniquely address the engineering needs for the entire lifespan of any aviation structure.
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