McCarran International Airport expands fuel storage facility

Pond, together with MMC, has recently completed a fuel facility expansion project at the McCarran International Airport. The airport serves the city of Las Vegas and the surrounding community and is the 26th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic and the 8th busiest by aircraft movements.

The fuel facility at LAS dates to the 1950s when the airlines had their own fuel facilities onsite. In the 80s, the airlines came together to create a corporation, more commonly known as a Fuel Consortium, to combine the fuel facilities and operate and manage them as one facility. In 2007, Pond was awarded projects to add and modernise the fuel facility based on the fuelling consortiums requirements.

Pond and its team of engineers, across multiple disciplines, had to reverse engineer many of the systems given the age of the facility and limited to no records of the original designs.

The expansion was done in two phases over the course of 10 years. The first phase was a challenge as the scope of the design work was constantly changing due to input from numerous stakeholders, including the FAA.

The expansion project had numerous challenges as the facility is land locked and the design had to stay within the existing footprint. Also, operational continuity was a major priority as the facility had to remain operational during the expansion to provide fuel to the airlines.

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30th May 2017