Aviation/Aerospace

Aerotest

Aerotest is a 105,000 square foot pre-engineered steel building located at the Mojave Air and Space port in Mojave, CA. The building consists of a hangar that is 75,000 square feet and the two story office is 30,000 square feet.  The hangar has two automatic bi-parting doors that are 205 feet wide, 45 feet tall, and include tail sections above the doors that are 15 feet wide & 25 feet tall.

Architect
Engal & Company
Project Manager
Bart Wallace

Rotary Rocket

Rotary Rocket is located at the Mojave Air and Space port in Mojave and consists of a 9,190 square foot work shop that is 42 feet tall, and a 7,992 square foot Assembly hangar that is 85 feet tall.  Both are pre-engineered steel buildings to house and build the concept rocket for space payload delivery.

Architect
Steve Kieke
Project Manager
Bart Wallace
Superintendent
Don Eaton

Flight Research, Inc.

Flight Research is 46,288SF consisting of two metal buildings joined at one wall. Bldg A houses numerous aircraft including a DC-3. It is equipped with an insulated, translucent-panel, fabric door with a clear-span opened dimension of 148′ wide by 25′ tall. Thirty skylights and the light transmitting hangar door allow work on the aircraft during normal daylight operations without the use of electric lighting. The wood framed build-out of the Building B shell is structurally independent and includes two floors of administrative offices, a workout facility, instructional classrooms with theater seating and projection equipment, a small library, conference rooms and meeting rooms. The structure as a whole is built to withstand 100mph wind gusts.

Architect
Engel & Company
Project Manager
Thomas Hersom
Superintendent
Robert Connor

FAITH Hangar

Built for TSC (The Spaceship Company – Sister Company to Virgin Galactic – Richard Branson), Final Assembly Integration Test Hangar (FAITH), to assemble components to build White Knight Two mothership, and Spaceship Two sub-orbital spacecraft for commercial space flight. Design build 63590 square foot facility consisting of 56640 square foot hangar, and 8400 square foot office space located off taxiway B at the Mojave Air & Space Port.  246 foot by 236 wide clear span pre-engineered steel structure with a 220 foot by 30 foot tall door opening.  Entire structure is conditioned by Daikin VRF heating and cooling system helping to acheive LEED Certification.  Project completed in 10 months.

Architect
Engle & Company
Project Manager
Chet Joiner
Superintendent
Robert Connor

Statolaunch Systems Facility, A Paul G. Allen Project

A Design Build project that started with discussions between Wallace & Smith and Scaled Composites in 2006. The first phase was the design of the site and two structures, The Fabrication Building and the T Hangar & Office. The actual Design of these two buildings began in the Fall of 2008 and continued through the Summer of 2009 when the funding for the project was pulled. In June of 2011 Scaled Composites approached W&S, by December of 2011 W&S was in contract and began earthwork for the Project. The Fabrication Building was turned over in September of 2012, 2 months early, and the T Hangar was completed in early March of 2013, also 2 months early. [Read More]

 

Fabrication Building: An 88,000 sf facility completely air conditioned with an energy efficient Daikin System. The building has 14,000 sf of Mezzanine storage, 8,000 SF of office space, a break room, a 5,000 sf temperature and humidity controlled refrigeration room for “lay-up” of composite parts, an attached 5,500 sf Oven Building with a 4.8 Million BTU and 2 Million BTU oven for “cooking’ composite parts. This facility is designed with compressed air and power throughout the facility; it has a 1,300 sf tool storage room, a weld shop and restrooms. It has been designed with both fixed and portable dust booths, and natural gas powered generators back up specific tooling processes within the building. The Fabrication building has its own exterior hazardous storage area for OSHA and State compliance.

T Hangar & Office: The T Hangar is a 97,000 SF hangar with an attached 20,250 sf two story office. The T Hangar has a 420′ clear span with a 97′ tall ridge line. It has approximately 6,100 sf of mezzanine storage, a 1,200 sf Sim Room, two remote restrooms, an in slab deluge fire sprinkler system and an overhead standard hazard fire sprinkler system. It is cooled by 10 18,000 CFM swamp coolers with matching 18,000 CFM exhaust fans (4 of which are within the Mega Door). The Office is designed and built with the Daikin System to allow for flexibility and efficiency in heating and cooling. The office is a fully functioning office with conference rooms, restrooms and break rooms on both floors.

The T hangar has approximately 3,000,000 pounds of structural steel to complete the 420′ clear span at the High Bay and 212′ clear span at the Low Bay. There is 2,300 lineal feet of 21” wide, 747 aircraft rated, trench drain which has double duty. It is a pathway for the in slab Deluge Fire Sprinkler system with Viking Grate Nozzles. It also drains all the water from the deluge system, which is tied into a under slab storm drain system, to remove all water from the building. The building concrete totals approximately 4.000 cubic yards of concrete which make up the slabs and footings. The largest footings in the T Hangar are 20′ wide x 56′ long x 7′ deep, these footing had anchor bolts which totaled nearly 5,000 lbs. The T Hangar has a Mega Door, seven individual doors with mullions that swing up and out of the way to provide the 420′ wide opening. The Mega Door is controlled through by a Touch Screen system that has wireless access. This building will act as the future home for assembly and test flights of the World’s Largest Aircraft, all developed and fabricated by Scaled Composites.

Architect
Teter AE
Project Manager
John Anderson
Superintendent
Robert Connor