Arizona Best of 2007/Phoenix Air Traffic Control Tower and TRACON Facility

摘要

This 58 million dollars project provides sky Harbor International Airport with a 320-ft tall, 850-sq-ft air traffic control tower and a 78,000-sq-ft base building which houses the Terminal Radar Approach Control system, a 48-radar position facility that enhances controllers' ability to monitor and control up to 1,350 aircraft as they approach or depart the airport area. Since the facility is critical to air traffic safety, power systems needed to be extremely reliable. Two incoming high voltage, 12.47 kV services are run to the site, and each is stepped down to 480-volt, three-phase, three-wire via a pad-mounted transformer. Each is designed to support the entire facility in the event of a power outage to the other feed.