Aviation

Mojave, CA

The future home of the world's largest aircraft: a design-build fabrication building and T hangar for Scaled Composites at the Mojave Air & Space Port, its 420-foot clear span carried on roughly three million pounds of structural steel. Both buildings were turned over two months early.

Client

Scaled Composites

Size

185,000 SF

Structures

2 buildings

Delivery

Design / Build

Mojave, CA

The Final Assembly, Integration and Test Hangar built for The Spaceship Company, sister company to Virgin Galactic, where the White Knight Two mothership and SpaceShipTwo came together for commercial space flight. Design-build, LEED Certified, and completed in ten months.

Client

The Spaceship Company

Size

63,590 SF

Delivery

Design / Build

Schedule

10 months

Mojave, CA

A 105,000 SF pre-engineered steel hangar and office at the Mojave Air & Space Port, with two automatic bi-parting doors 205 feet wide and 45 feet tall, crowned by 15-by-25-foot tail sections.

Size

105,000 SF

Hangar

75,000 SF

Office

30,000 SF

Mojave, CA

Two joined metal buildings totaling 46,288 SF: a hangar whose translucent 148-foot fabric door and thirty skylights let crews work on aircraft, a DC-3 included, without electric lighting, and a wood-framed build-out of offices, classrooms and a library.

Size

46,288 SF

Rating

100 mph wind gusts

Mojave, CA

A 42-foot-tall workshop and an 85-foot-tall assembly hangar at the Mojave Air & Space Port, pre-engineered steel buildings raised to house and build a concept rocket for space payload delivery.

Workshop

9,190 SF

Hangar

7,992 SF