In ZW’s role as Project Managers, we provided full project management services during the Design and Construction and Hand-over of the systems.

The Domestic/International and Trans-border baggage handling systems of the Ottawa International Airport was reaching its end of life and with new Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) requirements to be implemented it required a new design. CATSA mandated the airport to provide 100% bag screening and bag tracking which they incorporated into the project. The project involved the relocation of specific airport operations/functions to new facilities, therefore, early work projects commenced; including:

• The building of a new Maintenance Building for the relocation of Maintenance Services from the Passenger Terminal Building.
• A new Water Fill Building which was housed within the Passenger Terminal Building.
• A new Tug Charging Building which was also housed within the Passenger Terminal Building.
• Campus Hydro upgrade to a new 28kv service for existing and future expansion capacities.
• Fit up of CATSA Office, Air Canada Offices, BHS Office relocations and K9 Relocation
The Baggage Handling Project included the procurement of a Baggage System Design Team and a system that would be installed in both existing bag-rooms, replacing the out-dated conveyor system. The procurement of the system took approximately one-year from the Expression of Interest to the final Request for Proposal. The proponents were evaluated based on a compliance documentation criteria, life-cycle and operational data and overall system performance. The scope of the project included the following:

The Trans-border system

• New Conveyor System to replace the existing where required.
• New baggage Crisbag tote system.
• Baggage Storage capacity of 72 bags.
• USCBP – BIWIS systems, fully automatic and semi-automatic Radiation Detection both in-line and stand-alone for out-of-gauge bag.
• New Oversize screening machine.
• New CATSA inspection room.
• Expansion of the current bag-room with installation of 2 screening machines.
• All base-building installations/alterations.
The Domestic/International system

• New Conveyor system.
• International to Domestic IX Line.
• New Domestic Carousel including inbound belts and conveyors.
• New Domestic/International Bag-room carousel.
• New Oversize screening machine.
• New baggage Crisbag tote system.
• New CATSA inspection room