Drives retrofit key in life safety system at Atlanta airport
The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport serves more than 80 million passengers annually with air service to 192 cities in 31 countries. The city of Atlanta, owner of the airport, initiated the Hartsfield Development Program (HDP) in 2000 to enable the airport to meet future demands - a projected 121 million passengers annually by 2015.
Improvements underway include construction of a fifth runway, an additional concourse, and a four-gate expansion of concourse E, which handles international operations. Overall infrastructure upgrades to the Central Passenger Terminal Complex (CPTC) included HVAC equipment, drives, and control systems to increase system performance, enhanced compliance with IAQ standards, and decreasing maintenance and energy costs. "Although those improvements are important to overall passenger and airport employee comfort, as well as energy savings, the ventilation upgrades to the APM are a life-safety measure," explained Bill Borie, president of Borie Davis (Atlanta), the HVAC equipment representative that handled the APM project.