{"id":24962,"date":"2023-03-06T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=24962"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:28:58","slug":"henderson-engineers-delivers-sustainable-operations-for-new-terminal-at-kansas-city-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/missouri\/henderson-engineers-delivers-sustainable-operations-for-new-terminal-at-kansas-city-international-airport\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Henderson Engineers Delivers Sustainable Operations for New Terminal at Kansas City International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Above photo – Lucas Blair Simpson \u00a9 SOM.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henderson Engineers, the lead engineer on the New Terminal\nat Kansas City International Airport (MCI), designed an all-electric power\nsystem for airport operations that places the facility at the forefront of\nsustainability. Spanning just over one million square feet, the newly opened\n$1.5 billion single terminal is powered by Henderson-designed building systems\nthat are big on energy efficiency and carbon reduction. Those systems\ncontributed to MCI becoming the first and largest LEED v4 GOLD BD+C: NC\ncertified terminal\/concourse project in the Midwestern United States and just\nthe second in the entire country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left to right are, Kathi Vandel from LightWorks, Inc., Jennifer Nelson, Meagan Gibbs, Brent Felten, and Brian Todd from Henderson Engineers. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The all-electric system (a decision by the Kansas City\nAviation Department (KCAD) via a joint negotiated strategy with utility firm\nEvergy, and implemented by Henderson) powers new terminal operations, which\nfeatures 40 gates and replaced the previous three-terminal format at MCI.\nCompared to a traditional mixed fuel system that uses natural gas, oil, or\ncoal, the all-electric system is expected to avoid 92% of operational CO2\nemissions by 2050. Evergy provided electric utility infrastructure improvements\nto help ensure and support KCAD\u2019s move to an all-electric facility. The\nelectricity supply from the grid to MCI is now reliable and redundant, with\nample backup, both at utility and facility levels, so it remains functional in\ncase of a disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henderson, a 100% employee-owned national building system\ndesign firm, extended this all-electric approach to airline and passenger\nservices at the direction of KCAD and with agreements with current air\ncarriers. Henderson\u2019s engineering team, in conjunction with input from KCAD and\nits current air carriers, provided the necessary specification and\ninfrastructure for electric ground service equipment (eGSE) chargers. High\nspeed electric chargers are allocated throughout the facility to power airline\neGSE, which services aircraft in various capacities including transporting\nluggage and serving aircraft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the airport\u2019s new 6,219-capacity parking garage, a\ncomplement to the oversize vehicle\/surface parking, Henderson provided\nspecifications and design for 70 electric vehicle charging stations.\nAdditionally, the Henderson engineering team\u2019s custom-designed electrical\ninfrastructure within the parking garage provided flexibility for the\nintegration of a 510-panel solar array, designed and provided by Good Energy\nSolutions, LLC and supporting an inductive bus charging system, a\nfirst-of-its-kind at a municipal international airport. Much like wireless\nphone charging, MCI\u2019s fleet of electric buses simply park above inductive\ncharging pads to power up while picking up travelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause we knew this facility will be in use for at least\nthe next five decades, we were focused on its long-term success and viability,\u201d\nsaid James Dietz, principal and aviation practice director at Henderson\nEngineers. \u201cAs aviation continues to adopt sustainable design practices, going\nall-electric future proofs the project from taking on considerable upgrades\ndown the road. It\u2019s good for the planet, and good for the wallet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by developer Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate,\ndesign-builder Clark | Weitz | Clarkson, and the Kansas City Aviation\nDepartment, the new single terminal is the largest infrastructure project in\nKansas City\u2019s history, and involved 247 local partners, including more than 133\nminority and women-owned businesses. The entire team was made up of over 300\ncompanies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the center of comfort within the building is a\nhigh-efficiency electric chiller plant, which is the system that provides air\nconditioning. Typically, chiller plants eject heat via cooling towers in the\ncooling process, but Henderson\u2019s design includes a heat recovery chiller.\nInstead of rejecting heat to the atmosphere via the facility\u2019s rooftop cooling\ntowers, the chiller plant recycles that energy within the facility, using it to\nmaintain comfortable indoor temperatures. The system works hand-in-hand with an\non-site all-electric boiler plant, a sustainable heating alternative to a\ngas-fired furnace that is powered by 100% renewable energy from Evergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henderson\u2019s recycling philosophy extends to the New\nTerminal\u2019s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, which\ncirculates fresh air while releasing exhaust and building relief air from the\nbuilding. With the inclusion of energy recovery technology, the building\nreclaims heat (energy) from exhaust and relief air before ejecting it to\natmosphere. Captured energy is then reused within the building\u2019s HVAC system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur focus was to maximize any energy that\u2019s created within\nthe building to its fullest potential so we could help limit MCI\u2019s carbon\nfootprint,\u201d explained Dietz. \u201cThe building systems we designed and the\nresulting LEED Gold certification show that you can deliver a world-class\nfacility without compromising sustainability. Our firm\u2019s vision is to build a\nbetter world. We champion sustainable design practices as part of our MEP 2040\ncommitment as we believe our industry can \u2013 and should be \u2013 working to make a\ndifference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henderson\u2019s full scope of services for the New Terminal at\nMCI included acoustics, audio-video, electrical, fire alarm, mechanical, plumbing,\nand technology as well as fire alarm commissioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above photo – Lucas Blair Simpson \u00a9 SOM. Henderson Engineers, the lead engineer on the New Terminal at Kansas City International Airport (MCI), designed an all-electric power system for airport operations that places the facility at the forefront of sustainability. Spanning just over one million square feet, the newly opened $1.5 billion single terminal is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-missouri"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/217493_000_N84-edit-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25031,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions\/25031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}