Los Angeles Airport, Central Utility Plant & Infrastructure – Feasibility Study

Our team provided a feasibility study and design upgrade reports for the LAX Central Utility Plant project, covering campus-wide infrastructure systems, including decentralized heating systems for all terminal facilities, facilities management system and direct digital controls upgrades, fire/life safety system upgrades, electrical power distribution upgrades, a new central utility plant and distribution, air handling upgrades, new utility corridors and extensions across the entire LAX campus, cooling tower system upgrades, and new thermal energy storage upgrades. The scope also included Thermal Energy Storage & LEED Silver CUP studies, emission reduction, grey water use, and other sustainable concepts. Our proposed solution could save the Central Plant project up to $6,000,000 in annual operations costs. This facility will provide utilities to all nine terminals at LAX. The innovative design includes recycled water usage for cooling tower makeup and chiller condenser system cooling, along with below-grade 40,000-ton chilled water thermal energy storage utilizing the existing CUP building.