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LAX's New Tom Bradley Terminal Receives LEED Gold Standard
The new Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX. Credit: Nick Merrick © Hedrich Blessing
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’s most technologically-advanced airport to date.
— Fentress Architects
In the press release by the architects who designed the Tom Bradley terminal expansion, they detail some of the projects' most notable aspects:
- The interior of the terminal contains "more than 12,000-square-feet of LED tiles and hundreds of LCD screens" to entertain travelers.
- The project includes 15-gate terminals and concourse, designed to give room for expansion with LAX now the second-busiest airport in the nation.
- 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.
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Turning the public spaces in the ticket hall into the TSA checkpoint totally ruined this place. It used to be, to me, a destination if I were dropping off or picking someone up at the airport. I'd get there early to eat, or browse the shops, now, nothing. No matter how many LEEDs or LEDs they don't make up for the public space that was taken away...
What a bunch of bull. Low-E glass and low-flow fixtures have been mandated in many places for decades. In the context of air travel, no less - one of the most polluting activities on the planet.
Reminds me of the local 'green' library with 3 stories of north facing glass and geothermal heat pumps that cost $3,000 a month to run.
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