Lanz Cabinets Inc.’s hangar, Eugene, Ore.

by Rosa Soto | 15 November 2020 12:00 am

SSW Engineers Inc. designed Lanz Cabinets’hangar to accommodate a Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet. Scott Adamo, chief pilot at Lanz Cabinets, says, “We actually built this hangar for this airplane. We had a different airplane before in a smaller hangar that would not fit the Challenger.”

A hydraulic door provides enough clearance at the door opening for the aircraft and allows the building to be slightly shorter, which complies with height restrictions at the airfield. Ordell Construction LLC, general contractor and erector for the project, installed Schweiss Doors’ 76-footwide by 23 1/2-foot-tall hydraulic door.

Adamo says, “The main reason we went with a Schweiss hydraulic door was because we needed as much clearance as possible at the door opening. There are height restrictions on this side of the airfield because the control tower needs a line of sight from the tower to the east runway. This door was the solution, enabling us to build the hangar in our preferred location. With a bifold door, we would have had to build the hangar 6 feet taller to allow for the additional roof required by the clamshell type of door.”

Adamo also likes that the door provides some shelter outside the hangar and opens quickly. “If it is raining, we can open the door via remote control and pull underneath the open door,” he says. “Passengers can exit the aircraft and not have to step out into the rain.

Ordell constructed the 9,288-square-foot hangar with a metal building system, metal roof and metal walls supplied by Varco Pruden Buildings. It houses offices, a kitchen, meeting room and fireplace lounge. Daylighting is provided, in part, via 16 PrisMAX SL skylights, supplied by Varco Pruden.

Ordell built the skeleton of the hangar with Varco Pruden’s Rigid Frame metal building system. At the roof, Ordell installed Varco Pruden’s 24-gauge SSR standing seam roof system in Galvalume and Cool Zinc Gray. At the walls, Ordell installed Varco Pruden’s Panel Rib metal wall panels in Cool Egyptian White.

Erik Stolle, project manager at Ordell, says the door installation went well. “It was kind of daunting at first, but we just laid it out and pieced it together. Like anything, we put our minds together and came up with a good game plan and it went really smooth. The Schweiss installation manual was easy to follow. We didn’t run into any hang ups. The door works great and opens and closes really smoothly.”

The project won Varco Pruden’s 2019 Hall of Fame award in the transportation category. Brent Lanz, owner and president at Lanz Cabinets, says, “[The door] operates well; it is a very fine piece of equipment. We have it on a remote garage door opener so as the plane is pulling in, we just push a button and it starts opening. We lined the inside of it with panels that make it look super nice as well. It’s quiet, nice and it’s a homerun for sure.”

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