Attachment 1: Specifications - Metropolitan Washington Airports ...

DCA TERMINAL A IMPROVEMENTS (NEAR TERM)10 AUGUST 2012
TASK ORDER 03: LOBBY IMPROVEMENTS – PKG 4 -CURBSIDE CHECK-IN
RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT
PROJECT DT1203
A. The Baggage Handling System (BHS) Work consists of provision of a curbside conveyor line as
shown on the BHS Contract Drawings to meet the performance based requirements herein.
BHS components shall be new, in compliance with the requirements herein. The BHSC shall
provide equipment and components that comply with the operational, functional and
performance requirements of these specifications. All subsystems listed below shall be
considered as complete systems with interface to the overall system for testing purposes. Listed
below are the systems that are to be provided as part of this Work.
B. Curbside Baggage Handling System (BHS) shall function as described below.
1. Introduction:
a. The intent of this contract is to provide a new curbside conveyor line at the
existing Terminal A of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
b. The curbside BHS shall be divided into three functional zones as described below.
2. Function Zone 1 – Baggage Collecting:
a. At the curbside of departure level of Terminal A, there are three (3) check-in
counter positions. After the passengers have checked their bags, the airline counter
agents will manually relocate each standard size bag to the back of counters, onto
the take-away (collecting) conveyor.
b. At the end of the load belt (straight and power turn conveyors), the curbside line
enters a dog house. A new stainless steel fire/security door located in the inside of
the dog house and controlled by the BHS. An over-height detection photoelectric
sensor shall be provided at the discharge end of the power turn, before the door.
Bags 26” or more in height shall be detected by the over-height photoelectric
sensors. The load belt (straight and power turn) shall stop at this location (when the
over-height bag arrives at the head-end photoelectric sensor) and will be removed
by the counter agent and processed as oversized.
c. Bags that are too large to be processed on BHS are termed Oversize. Oversize
bags shall be manually moved to the TSA space (behind the ticket counters of
Terminal A) for the screening process.
d. A stainless steel control station with warning buzzer shall be provided near the
load conveyor for starting the load conveyor. An Access Control System (ACS)
card reader will be provided next to the control station, and the start pushbutton of
the BHS system shall be integrated with the ACS.
e. Both conveyors in this zone shall be equipped with Variable Frequency Drives
(VFD).
3. Function Zone 2 – Curbside Transporting
a. The bags shall be transported toward the TSA space behind the ticket counters.
After the stainless steel security/fire door (at curbside doghouse), the curbside
transport conveyor line shall decline within the new enclosure. The transport line
shall be routed south in the structural space under the departures level floor slab.
The transport conveyor line shall turn to the west and be routed under the building
structure (over a parking area). The curbside conveyor line shall incline up
through a new floor penetration into a doghouse in the TSA space. The curbside
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