GK Engineers supported Page’s electrical team on the lighting design for the Tier 2 Concourse East at Washington Dulles International Airport, a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority project with PGAL as architect and HLB Lighting Design setting the lighting concept. GK’s role was lighting only: turning the lighting designer’s intent into engineered documents.

Working in the design team’s shared models, GK built the lighting fixture schedule, laid out general, back-of-house and exterior lighting, and developed the lighting control strategy against the MWAA design standard and the 30% design narrative, including egress lighting with inverter or battery backup and egress signage placement.

The work ran from a January 2024 kickoff through the spring 2024 submission, with progress calls with Page and the lighting designer. It was GK’s first project for Page’s aviation group in Washington, DC, and shows the firm fitting into a large national design team on a major airport.

Image: design rendering.