2024-12-11T17:05:46-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/124903820/lax-s-new-tom-bradley-terminal-receives-leed-gold-standard Nicholas Korody 2015-04-09T17:35:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/15/15xzphksja8s2sjt.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the Pacific gateway to the United States, has achieved LEED Gold certification for its new Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT), the crown jewel of the Bradley West renovation. This makes the 1.25-million-square-foot facility the largest LEED Gold airport terminal in the United States. Designed by Fentress Architects, TBIT is not only sustainable, it is America&rsquo;s most technologically-advanced airport to date.</p></em><br /><br /><p>In the press release by the <a href="http://www.fentressarchitects.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">architects</a> who designed the Tom Bradley terminal expansion, they detail some of the projects' most notable aspects:</p><ul><li>The interior of the terminal contains "more than 12,000-square-feet of LED tiles and hundreds of LCD screens" to entertain travelers.</li><li>The project includes&nbsp;15-gate terminals&nbsp;and concourse, designed to give room for expansion with LAX now the second-busiest airport in the nation.</li><li>Numerous features were designed to make the expansion sustainable, notably the use of low-E glass to minimize heat gain and low-flow water fixtures.</li></ul>