Education

General Contractor: Turner Construction

Completion Date: April 2024

As one of the largest commercial airlines in the country, United Airlines trains thousands of pilots each year and recently set an ambitious goal to recruit and train another 10,000 pilots by 2030. To achieve this goal, a new cutting-edge 150,000 square feet of training space was added to the United Airlines Flight Training Center Campus.

Encore Electric provided design-assist services, power, lightning protection, fire alarm, and technology construction management services, and the Encore Electric service team helped install flight simulators (SIMs) in collaboration with the manufacturer.

The United Airlines Flight Training Center is one of the first of its kind to use PoE for the lighting system control and power. PoE lights are powered by nodes throughout the facility which directly connect to category 6-rated cabling. Construction teams worked through many design challenges to understand the intricacies of the system, which created some scheduling challenges that required a high level of coordination with all trades.

Read more about the United Flight Training Center.

• Independent Electrical Contractor National
  Low-Voltage/Limited Energy Green Construction
• Independent Electrical Contractor Rocky Mountain Summit Awards
  Low-Voltage/Limited Energy Systems Automation & Controls’
• 2024 Associated Builders and Contractors Rocky Mountain Chapter Excellence in Construction Awards
  Award of Honorable Mention – Specialty Contractor: Specialty Construction – Commercial (More than $10M)
• 2024 Associated General Contractors Colorado ACE Awards
  Bronze: Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job – Specialty Contractor
• Best Regional Projects Engineering News-Record
  Best Project – Airport Transit