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JetBlue Airways Airport Terminal

Location
New York, NY

Structural Engineer
Ammann & Whitney

Architect
Gensler

Steel Joist Manufacturer
Canam and NJB

Steel Fabricator
Vulcraft

This project provided a complete unit airline terminal with 28 gates and 465,000 total square feet of area.

Joist framing for the roof structures allowed the designers to design a maximum performance framing system with absolute minimum weight and cost. Open web joists and joist girders were used throughout with moment connections allowing these elements to be used in some locations as a part of the lateral load resisting system. Large (up to 80,000 pound) air handling units are supported on roof structures using paired open web joists. In the main ticketing hall the repetitive use of a single profile open web joist allowed the architect to express the structural system as an architectural element.

Parking Garage

Transportation

This project utilizes steel joists and joist girders to create a roof structure to support solar panels over the top level of a parking garage. A system of joists and joist girders were erected, light gauge support angles were attached across the joists and the solar panels were attached to the light gauge support angles.

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Gerald Ford Int’l. Airport Parking Deck Roof

Transportation

Since the original construction in 2011, this airport has never used the top parking deck during the winter. With the growth of air travel, the airport wanted to cover the top level without entirely closing the sides. For long-term protection, along with the structural steel, the final design required all the steel joists & bridging to be galvanized.

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Car Wash

Transportation

In an effort to create a more organic feel, open-web bowstring joists were utilized to keep an open feeling beneath canopies, while creating architectural interest. Bowstring trusses were also used on the interior roof structure, in order minimize construction costs while matching the profile of the more costly tube steel trusses, on the exterior of the structure.

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