Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) South is a new 150,000-square-foot concourse being built with an innovative construction technique that demonstrates LAWA's commitment to exceptional and resilient design.
Project Team
Design Architect: Woods Bagot Los Angeles
Associate Architect: Raw International
General Contractor and Construction Manager: W.E. O'Neil Construction
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
Civil Engineer: Mott MacDonald / MA Engineering
Mechanical and Plumbing Engineer: Syska Hennessy Group
Electrical Engineer: PBS Engineering
Geotechnical Engineer: Diaz Yourman & Associates
Sustainability Consultant: Buro Happold
Baggage Handling, Passenger Boarding Bridges and Fueling: Swanson Rink
IT, Communications and Security: TLC Engineering Solutions
Wayfinding: Selbert Perkins Design
Lighting Design: Buro Happold
Acoustics: Buro Happold
Site Investigations and Surveying: Pfeiler & Associates Engineers, Inc
Vertical Transportation: Syska Hennessy
Group Code Compliance: Jensen Hughes
Fire Protection: Schwab Engineering"
About
Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) South will extend the West Gates at Tom Bradley International Terminal, adding approximately 150,000 square feet and eight gates for narrowbody aircraft.
Utilizing a first-of-its-kind construction technique called Offsite Construction and Relocation (OCR), MSC South will be built in nine segments roughly a mile and a half away from the project’s site and then carefully delivered and assembled in place. The OCR technique is both innovative and adaptive, saving public funds and time with a high degree of building control and supervision.
MSC South represents another example of LAWA’s dedication to design excellence. Architecturally, the concourse creates a sense of place that celebrates and pays homage to the City of Los Angeles, with elements of the design strongly influenced by notable modernist homes. This is especially true of the project’s exterior brise soleil system – a solar shading feature on the concourse’s façade – that frames sightlines of the surrounding L.A. landscape.
Inside MSC South, passengers’ comfort and well-being are of the utmost importance, with the interior feeling more like a domestic space than a traditional airport concourse. MSC South’s brise soleil system will also enable passive cooling and energy conservation, helping the project achieve its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver accreditation goal. As with all LAWA transformation projects, the team delivering MSC South is comprised of local workers, with more than 30% of the team coming from Los Angeles’s local workforce.
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