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Kwame shares in design recognition
Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:00 pm
By St. Louis American staff


Main Terminal, St. Louis-Lambert International

The renovation of the Terminal 1 vault at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport has received a 2013 AIA Chicago Design Excellence Award Honor Award – Divine Detail.

Kwame Building Group is the project manager for the $70 million Airport Experience Program, the largest renovation in the history of the airport. The Kwame project management team recommended several key solutions to implement the new lighting scheme, which was designed by Randy Burkett Lighting Design.

The renovation of the concrete vaults and skylights in Terminal 1 was part of Phase I of the Airport Experience Program, now complete.

When the renovation began, the triangulated skylights separating the four vaults in the terminal were concealed by acrylic ceilings laid flush with the vault surface. The renovation design called for replacing fluorescent lighting inside the skylights with LED to reduce energy and maintenance costs.

The Kwame project management team recommended opening up the vaults to dramatize the skylights, a feature that was evident in the original mid-century design (1956) by Minoru Yamasaki. Kwame also suggested a film that would allow the LED light to appear on both sides of the glass, accentuating the natural arches of the vault both inside and outside the terminal. When viewed from a distance, the LED lighting washes the terminal with dramatic color.

“The Lambert Terminal 1 renovation is a great example of how a project management team can bring construction solutions to the table to achieve design goals,” said Mike Minges, vice president of Kwame.

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