Project Team
Owner: AirTran Airways Inc., Orlando
Location: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta
Cost: $15 million
General Contractor: New South Construction, Atlanta
Architect: MCA Architects, Portland, Ore.

This project involved the construction of a hangar and auxiliary office complex for AirTran Airways at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The approximately 60,000-sq.-ft. hangar is built to accommodate either three 717s or two 737s at one time.

Tilt-up concrete panels form the hangar's walls. The structure is a pre-engineered Rubb building, the first of its kind in the Southeast. The building consists of a galvanized steel structure covered by a tensioned, PVC-coated fabric membrane.

The attached office facility, a steel-frame-and-masonry structure, consists of two floors of approximately 10,000 sq. ft. each, with one side being a concrete demising wall shared with the hangar. The exterior skin of the building is a floor-to-roof glass curtain wall accented by composite metal panels.

A site-development package covered nearly 11 acres of land and required installation of new storm, sanitary, water, electrical and compressed-air lines. A soil cement stabilization course was applied to all areas that would eventually receive asphalt or concrete. The aircraft apron and taxilane consist of approximately 20,000 yds. of 20-in.-thick, 650-psi flexural strength concrete.