Aviation - AIRTRAN AIRWAYS MAINTENANCE HANGAR
AIRTRAN AIRWAYS MAINTENANCE HANGAR Project Overview
The AirTran Airways Maintenance Hangar involves the construction of a hangar, auxiliary office complex and sitework located at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The 60,000 sf hangar is built to accommodate three (3) 717’s or two (2) 737’s, with construction of the hangar comprising of tilt-up concrete panels forming the hangar’s walls, while the structure itself is a pre-engineered Rubb building, the first of its kind in the Southeast. The Rubb building consists of a galvanized steel structure covered by a tensioned PVC-coated fabric membrane. Coordination of relocating water mains, sanitary, Colonial pipeline, fuel lines, relocating main fiber optics and other miscellaneous utilities.
The office complex consists of 20,000 sf with two (2) floors approximately 10,000 sf each. The office is a steel frame and masonry structure, with one side as a concrete demising wall - shared with the hangar. The first floor contains work space for maintenance personnel, locker rooms, a break room, material storage space, and a loading dock. The second floor is office and meeting space for approximately 80 AirTran employees. Site work for the new hangar, included a 20” taxiway and apron paving section over 9” of soil cement. The taxiway paving included integral airfield lighting.
The hangar’s fire protection system is capable of covering the hangar floor in foam up to a height of 48” in less than two minutes This is achieved through a high-expansion foam system supplied by a 180,000-gallon underground water reservoir. Other systems installed to facilitate aircraft service include a 400-Hz power converter, a paint booth, a composite grinding booth, a waste oil/solvent dump station, five Dabico utility pits, and three mobile electrical panel boards.