JET AVIATION FIXED BASE OF OPERATIONS
( TETERBORO, NEW JERSEY )

Across the river from the impressive skyline of Manhattan stands a new 30,000 square foot, five-story fixed base of operations building with an 80 foot long enclosed, elevated pedestrian bridge connecting the new facility to an existing building on an adjacent property.

The building structure and the bridge structure are steel framed with cast-in-place concrete floor slabs on steel form deck supported on open web steel joists and steel beams. Three steel pipe braced frames were used for lateral stability.

Poor soil conditions required the entire project to be founded on concrete filled steel pipe piles.

Virtually every floor of the building is designated for a different type of use. The first floor is the terminal for arriving and departing flights and includes a large two-story waiting area. The second floor houses sleeping quarters for the pilots as well as an exercise room and remote office stations for passenger use. The third and fourth floors are general lease space and the fifth floor contains the executive offices of Jet Aviation. Due to the mixed nature of the building, extensive floor vibration analysis was performed to minimize the perceptible effects of floor vibrations.