PDX Airport - TSA Screening Rooms
Role : Lead Project Engineer
Tasks : Responsible for developing constructability, including consulting with vendors to mill custom wood profiles and fabricate structural metal elements. Developed production fixtures for; thermoforming and post processing radiused solid surface exterior, milling details into wood staves, and various other production and installation jigs. Programmed all of the CNC files for every element. Produced drawings for approval with Client & Architect, fabrication drawings, vendor production drawings, and install instruction set.
Challenges : Greatest challenge was creating fabrication systems for a cylindrical room, including a radiused pocket door. Panels are constructed of a custom acoustic wood profile with angled faces to achieve a radius. I call these ‘Staves’, using coopering terms as this structure mimics a barrel. Accuracy of each wood stave was paramount, since there are roughly 250 staves in this room, a variance of 0.005” could change the circumference of the room by almost 2”.
Four of these rooms stand in the the new Portland International Airport for TSA to use in their security process.
