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.
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. Â Both are pre-engineered steel buildings to house and build the concept rocket for space payload delivery.
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.
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.
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]
