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Reference projects:
Frankfurt Terminal A-Plus with Saia®PCD
Construction site for the
790
m long Pier A-Plus
To avoid being tied to individual suppliers, opera-
tors of medium-sized and large buildings are in-
creasingly opting for the open communications
standard BACnet®. For several years this has been
the established standard at Frankfurt Airport’s Frap-
ort AG and much effort and commitment have been
put into ensuring that this standard is upheld. To
this end, requirement profiles have been defined for
all supported BACnet® objects and BACnet® serv-
ices, achieving a uniform standard on which to use
BACnet® controllers in a building with diverse auto-
mation systems from several manufacturers.
Saia® PCD systems have been BACnet® enabled for
more than five years. In 2008, the controller plat-
forms Saia® PCD2.M5 and Saia® PCD3 were success-
fully certified according to the BTL standard. In Sep-
tember 2008, as part of BACnet® implementation at
Frankfurt Airport, Saia-Burgess Controls AG was in-
vited to submit its PCD3.M5540 BACnet® controller
to comprehensive testing. Approval was granted on
19
June 2009 and announced in Controls News 12.
With this approval we were able to win the initial
tenders for modernization work on Terminal 1 in
partnership with our certified system integrators
CMS-electric GmbH from Flörsheim am Main. We
started with two small projects and now have the
contract for the new Pier A-Plus building.
Operators of large properties
are choosing
Saia
®
PCD
The first Saia®PCD BACnet® controllers
in use at Fraport.
Author: Stefan Pfützer
With an investment volume of nearly EUR 500 mil-
lion, the 790-metre-long building Pier will be com-
pleted in autumn 2012. The foundation stone was
laid on 1 September 2009 and once completed, it
will handle an additional 6 million passengers per
year. A total of seven wide-bodied aircraft will be
able to dock at the gates of the new pier. Four of
these gates will each be fitted with three passenger
boarding bridges and will therefore also be able to
accommodate the Airbus A380. Alternatively, up to
11
short-haul aircraft could also dock at these gates.
In conjunction with Menerga’s central ventilation
systems, CMS-electric GmbH has equipped the
heating, cooling and smoke extraction controllers
with Saia® PCD system technology throughout Ter-
minal A-Plus, including the connection of individual
zone control units. Around 30,000 hardware data
points are processed directly by more than 250
PCD3.M5540 controllers and over 160 Micro Brows-
er panels (5.7" and 10"). All communication at au-
tomation level is based on BACnet. It is not just the
project size and number of data points that make it
interesting, but above all the technology used and
its full integration of BACnet® communication on
the basis of one standard.
After completion of the new terminal, we would be
delighted to provide a detailed application report
for this project with Fraport AG’s approval.
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