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Pearson International Airport

Toronto, ON, Canada

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  • Voted "Best Global Airport 2006"

    Beginning with the environmental assessment process and continuing through the detailed design, RWDI used virtually all of its capabilities to assist the various design teams through the redevelopment of this major international airport’s infield buildings, new terminal, and parking facilities.

  • Services

    The issues studied by RWDI using wind tunnels, water flumes, computer modelling and ambient monitoring include:

    • Study of air quality impacts for new runways and roadways
    • Exhaust impacts from food services buildings, vehicles in parking areas, boilers
    • Wind loads on hangar, cargo building and new terminal one
    • Falling ice and snow from various buildings
    • Solar glare from building glazing
    • Roof snow loads for various long span structures
    • Ventilation on curbside drop-off areas
    • Ventilation of parking structure
    • Pedestrian wind conditions
    • Development and design of a damping system for the control tower and pedestrian bridges
    • Development of design criteria guidelines including noise and acoustics, exhaust, snow and microclimate
    • Field measurement of jet engine noise and recommendations for barrier design and placement
    • Wind affecting cladding, structure and motion for control tower
    • Footfall-induced motion of pedestrian bridges
    • Boiler plume visibility assessment for kitchen and hot water distribution boiler.

  • Benefits

    Design guidelines developed by RWDI in project planning stages were required to be used throughout the design process, thus leading to consistent approaches to design issues such as noise, acoustics, air quality and microclimate.

    Footfall-induced motion issues addressed for pedestrian bridges linking terminal and parking area.
    Guidance provided for potential sliding snow.

    Workable damping solution for control tower motion was designed to fit in the existing spaces of tower, reducing need for redesign.

    Exhaust stacks located to help overcome potential air quality impacts.

    Design guidance for parking areas helped improve air quality and ventilation.

    Cladding, structural and snow loads determined for optimized design.