Sustainability
Airports are increasingly going green to reduce the industry’s environmental impact. To help meet sustainability goals and reduce carbon emissions, this sector is integrating sustainable and circularly sourced materials into designs. Kingspan panels help building owners pursuing LEED certification by earning points for energy modeling and reducing energy use, energy intensity, recycled content and volatile organic compounds.
Kingspan panels helped San Francisco International Airport become the first airport in the world to become a certified net zero energy facility, in addition to receiving LEED Gold certification. The
SFO Consolidated Administration Campus (CAC) was finished in 2019. The building includes four departments – administration, landside, terminal and airside operations.
The CAC used more than 55,000-sqaure-feet of
Designwall 2000 insulated metal panels. The design of the CAC building included custom sizes and widths of the panels in three different colors, allowing architects to fulfill design goals, but even more importantly, played a vital role in allowing the airport to achieve its energy conservation targets.
“The building is net zero energy capable with a modeled energy use intensity score of 25, so the internal systems and exterior envelope were designed holistically to support those goals,” said Sarah Rege, senior project manager at Perkins + Will.