Projects
Bombardier Global Manufacturing Centre
Completion: February 01, 2024
Location: Mississagua
Size: 1,000,000
Bombardier has announced that Mississauga, Ont. will be home to a new global manufacturing centre for its Global business jets. The 41.2-acre ultra-modern and high-tech manufacturing facility will be located at Toronto Pearson International Airport. The new 1 million sq.ft. facility will have the capacity to build up to 100 aircrafts a year, and will be home to the most advanced aircraft manufacturing processes in the world. Kelson is proud to be the mechanical contractor for this exciting new project.
Mechanical Systems
The Bombardier design build project is made up of two buildings: the first is an airplane manufacturing facility labelled the ASF, second is a flight test and performance testing building called the FTH. Both buildings are serviced by gas fired roof top units complete with DX cooling, and contain heating boilers that service duct mounted reheat coils and perimeter heating. They also contain a complete domestic hot water with recirc serving plumbing fixtures, emergency showers and eye wash systems. The ASF building holds a complex dust collection system, welding exhaust, flammable storage as well as a complex series of service trenches that provide compressed air, hydraulic oil, testing air and vacuum systems to a large number of tooling stations located throughout the production line that is contained within the building. The FTH building contained fueled aircraft and accordingly, explosion proof considerations were an important aspect of the installation and a complex ventilation system was provided within the building. The FTH building also had compress air and fuel venting systems to handle maintenance on aircraft being flight tested. On the exterior of the building a large jet fuel storage, pumping and distribution system was installed to service aircraft.  The system contained large underground storage tanks, as well as a jet fuel recovery tank to allow fuel to be drained from aircraft when required.   The distribution system consisted of submersible tank mounted pumps that provided fuel through an underground double wall distribution system to local fuelling cabinets located on the fuelling canopy.   The system provided metered and pressurized fuel at large volumetric flow rates for new aircraft fueling. Â