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PIT Multi Modal

PIT Multimodal Center/ Consolidated Rental Car Facility (ConRAC)

Allegheny County Airport Authority’s Terminal Modernization Program (TMP) addressed the need for terminal modifications at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). Arora Engineers (Arora) provided low-voltage, IT, Special Systems and Electrical engineering services as a subconsultant to Michael Baker International for the Landside program’s 1.14 million square foot, five-level 4,200-space Multimodal Center/Consolidated Rental Car Facility (ConRAC) project. This project involved the relocation of the Landside Terminal and related ground-side functions to a new terminal complex that constructed adjacent to the existing Airside Terminal.

The complex, which triples the number of covered spaces from the airport’s existing layout, will serve as a parking garage and rental car facility, with approximately 800 spaces for rental cars and abundant curbside space for ridesharing pickup and drop-off. Design services included a new parking exit plaza, wayfinding services for the garage and rental car ready returns, a rental car customer service facility, a ground transportation center, a quick turnaround facility for rental, a rental car ready return lot, a surface public parking lot, a commercial vehicle lot, and all associated utilities and equipment.

The goal of the Terminal Modernization Program included stabilizing airline costs, building out PIT’s airport, encouraging environmental sustainability, enhancing the customer and passenger experiences, and providing value to the regional community.

SCOPE OF SERVICES INCLUDED:

Special Systems, Low Voltage, IT – Arora provided special systems design development, final design, and construction support services for the multimodal center to integrate with existing and terminal-provided systems as designer of record for all of the following systems: telecommunications, security, dynamic signage, paging and public address, blue phone, communications. Arora was responsible for overall site communications conduits, fibers, cabling, backbone and equipment to provide a fully functional communication system for the following areas:

  • QTA administration buildings
  • QTA wash building connections
  • QTA fueling area
  • QTA covered staging
  • Customer service building
  • Toll booths and ticket dispensers at employee parking, RAC employee parking, surface-lot entry and exit plazas, parking-garage entry and exit plazas, and remote lot communications building and gate conduits
  • Main demarcation connection to the new terminal building and existing infrastructure including the existing parking-management building
  • Data connections to overhead roadway dynamic signage

Arora provided the following special systems, low voltage, and IT services for the parking garage:

  • Ground-level rental-car kiosk connection points
  • Parking garage telecommunications room design
  • Coordination with parking control systems by watry
  • Security surveillance of garage
  • Blue emergency phones
  • Dynamic signage

Arora provided the following special systems, low voltage, and IT services for the customer service building:

  • Main building connections
  • Connection points for rental car fit-out
  • Public address
  • Blue emergency phones

Arora provided the following special systems, low voltage, and IT services for the site structures:

  • Overhead sign interface and connections
  • Surface-parking security cameras
  • Remote lot security cameras
  • Remote lot telecommunications equipment and blue phones

Electrical – Arora provided electrical engineering design development, final design, and construction support services for the multimodal center to integrate with existing and terminal provided systems as designer of record for Electrical power systems, such as normal and emergency power distribution systems including sub-metering per LEED requirements, all 480/277v and 208/120v outlets and power connections to equipment, all interior and exterior lighting and lighting control systems including external garage, lightning protection system, and grounding system

Arora’s provided site electrical distribution and equipment/system power connections to provide a fully functional electrical system for the following:

  • QTA administration buildings
  • QTA wash-building connections
  • QTA fueling area
  • QTA covered staging
  • Parking garage
  • Customer service building
  • Toll booths and ticket dispensers at the employee parking, RAC employee parking, surface lot entry and exit plazas, parking garage entry and exit plazas, and remote lot telecommunications building and conduits to gates

Arora also provided parking-garage electrical distribution and equipment/system power connections to provide a fully functional electrical system for the ground-level rental-car kiosk, parking-garage telecommunication rooms, parking control systems, security surveillance system, blue-phones system, dynamic signage, 33 level II electric-vehicle charging stations provisions for six elevators, and coordinated the charger equipment and installation.

Arora provided the following electrical engineering services for the customer service building:

  • Main building connections
  • Connection points for rental-car fit-out
  • Public address
  • Blue-phones system

Arora provided the following electrical engineering services for the site structures:

  • Overhead sign connections
  • Surface parking security cameras
  • Remote lot security cameras
  • Remote lot telecommunications equipment and blue phones
  • Remote lots

Renderings courtesy of Gensler + HDR in association with luis vidal + architects

  • PIT Multi Modal
  • PIT Multi Modal
Owner

Allegheny County Airport Authority

Location

Pittsburgh, PA

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