Dulles International Airport

Location:             Dulles VA
Owner:                Metropolitan Washington Airports Auth.
Architect:            Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Contractor:         Turner Construction Company
Completed:        2009

Scope:   The Automatic People Mover Station is the newly installed subway that services all of the island terminals at the Dulles International airport. CBO Glass was involved in the design of the custom train tube enclosure's structurally glazed curtainwall system, in addition to the innovative decorative glass structures that highlight the new addition to the terminal.

Enclosed with 13/16-inch heat-soaked laminated glass, the train tube features 64 different ceramic frit patterns consisting of two-coated surfaces of overlapping stripe patterns. The entire Automatic People Mover Station took seven years to complete. CBO Glass' scope included all of the steel and glass that encloses the train system as it passes through the main station, including the main subway station security mezzanines, People Mover glass enclosure, glass flooring including two large glass bridges, elevator enclosures and glass ceilings that include two sloped glass ceilings at the exit escalators, overhead baggage bridge with a glass ceiling and two large sloped elevations of custom fabricated louvers, an entire stainless steel panel assembly that contains approximately 7,500 stainless steel panels, a four-sided structurally glazed elevator and train tube enclosure, and a custom curtainwall system.