FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE
September 14, 2005
Valdosta,
GA -- The local engineering firm of KYCA, Inc. is commissioned to
design a series of complicated pedestrian bridges for the Florida Department
of Transportation. In corporation with KBJ Architects of Orlando,
it is a part of the $88 million Multimodal Facility Project at the Orlando
International Airport (OIA) North Station.
KYCAs responsibility
is to suspend two 110 and one 210 clear span bridges from the existing huge
skylight AGT Station Lobby roof. They also will add an exterior 66 and another
330 clear span long bridges connecting the Landside Terminal to the new
proposed Railroad Station. The station is a part of the High Speed and Light
Gauge Railroad system crossing the Florida peninsular from Tampa to Cape
Kennedy. The transfer tower required for emergency exits can be utilized for
the transmission of vertical and lateral forces from the bridges. The longest
bridge will have a width up to 28, wider than a double-lane highway, and
consist of two mechanically powered people movers.
Hailed as one
of the most beautiful airports in the world as well as most functional, OIA
won numerous engineering excellent awards in the past in which KYCA provided the
structural engineering.
It is a big
challenge to place a slim bridge 60 feet in the air n the hurricane prone State
of Florida. The bridge will need to be structurally elegant while avoiding
conflict with the daily functionality of an existing busy airport, as well as
its existing surrounding structures during construction,
--- said the Project
Engineer for KYCA, Jeffrey S. Chiu, P.E., CSE.