Construction Today 2018 - Volume 16, Issue 3 - 146
Civil | AEROTERM Picking Up Speed AEROTERM ADDS HIGH-PROFILE PROJECTS TO ITS ON-AIRPORT PROPERTIES PORTFOLIO. BY KAT ZEMAN Aeroterm Aeroterm * Headquarters: Annapolis, Md * Employees: 300+ has more than 17 million » Aeroterm square feet of property and development at 35+ airports. A lthough it already sports the largest portfolio of on-airport support facilities in North America, Aeroterm is working on making it even bigger. With more than 17 million square feet of property and development at more than 35 airports, Annapolis, Md.-based Aeroterm is the leading owner and provider of capital, expertise and facility-related services to airports throughout North America. It specializes in the development, acquisition, financing, construction, leasing and management of airport properties. "What sets us apart is our intimate knowledge of airport real estate and our successful history as a solution provider to airports and their support service tenants," says Alexi Lachambre, vice president of development. "But another very important 146 CONSTRUCTION-TODAY.COM VOLUME 16, ISSUE 3 part of our specialty is our ability to respond very quickly to airport authority needs." Tick Tock A recent project that required a quick response was a new multi-tenant facility at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Completed in April, the project involved demolishing a 50,000-squarefoot ground service equipment garage and replacing it with a state-of-the-art 78,000-square-foot facility. "This building is really instrumental to the operations of the airport," Lachambre says. "Without it, they can't operate their airport. The maintenance of all the ground support equipment is done out of this facility." Aeroterm had to work closely with Nav Canada to ensure that the new facility did not interfere with aircraft traffic radar. In "What ets us apart is our intimate knowledge of airport real estate and our uccessful history as a olution provider to airports and eir upport ervice tenants." - Alexi Lachambre, VP of development addition, because it's a maintenance garage, floor drains with oil and water separators had to be installed to prevent spills from leaking into the sewer system, as well as sophisticated air makeup units to satisfy air turn requirements. Furthermore, a traditional cargo building will have 9- by 10-foot doors but this one required 20- by 20-foot doors. Aeroterm completed the project in only eight months. "Typically a development like this would take double that time," Lachambre says. "But we were on a super fast track to accommodate the airport on this expansion. The Aero-