TRAFFIC ALERT: Overnight lane closures will take place on outbound Peña (leaving DEN) near the West Terminal from June 8–12, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. each night. Please use caution and drive safely.
SUSTAINABILITY
Denver International Airport designs and operates buildings with sustainability at the forefront. Our LEED-certified facilities — from terminal expansions to fire stations — reduce energy and water use, divert construction waste, and meet rigorous environmental standards.
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices. To receive LEED certification, building projects satisfy prerequisites and earn points to achieve different levels of certification.
LEED Certification has four levels: Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Executive Order No. 123 mandates all new City buildings and major renovations will be certified to LEED Gold Certification.
The Concourse C West Expansion project provides five new mainline gates and reconfigures four other gates to provide DEN and its major tenant an efficient and state of the art facility.
The Gold Level means this project has achieved 20+ more points (72 out of a possible 110) above the minimum level for certification. Working within the constraints of a major existing International Airport and using many of the exiting 20+ year old systems, this level of achievement was difficult for the airport team to achieve. Innovative concepts used to obtain LEED certification included:
Denver Fire Department Station #35 is the first station built on DEN property which is not an ARFF (airfield) facility.
The intent of this station is to serve the needs of DEN’s Airport City future public/private development along Pena Boulevard, as well as the new Westin Hotel and Transit Center. The 18,000 SF, two-story facility contains four Apparatus Bays, 10 dorm rooms, a work out room, kitchen and living spaces along with offices for the 24/7 station needs. The second story will contain the offices for the entire DFD DEN Division. The design of the facility follows the new ‘modern west’ aesthetic required by new development while integrating several sustainable and green systems in the building. Innovative concepts used to obtain LEED certification included:
Initiated in 2012, the DEN Data Center is the first true Design-Build Project at DEN.
The data center is designed to be concurrently maintainable meeting the Uptime Institute Tier III standards. The Tier III topology targets a demonstrated 99.98% of uptime reliability and reduces unplanned failures to a 4-hour event every 2.5 years or 1.6 hours on an annual basis. The DEN Data Center is designed and constructed for a minimum of N+1 for mechanical, electrical and other systems and components.
The DEN Data Center achieved LEED Silver with 53 points featuring the following:
