Gurrimatute | Aviation

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

Aviation

Firm Overview

Gurrimatute is an award-winning, quality-driven architectural and interior design firm committed to providing first-rate results and exceptional service.

Daphne I. Gurri – Principal and Owner – initially founded Gurrimatute as a sole proprietorship under her own name in 1996, with José G. Matute – Principal and Owner – later joining as Partner to officially form Gurri Matute PA in 2000.

Our team deeply believes in the authentic and genuine storytelling that comes alive in the spaces we design. We not only pinpoint and create new brands for our clients, but also bring existing brands further to life by studying and understanding each client’s core visions/values (which we later develop and express using the manipulation of light, sound, color and space).

Collaborating is at the heart of Gurrimatute’s creative process. Our company culture celebrates and encourages our entire team working together as an integrated unit, beginning with the design charrette and planning phases, and ending with construction completion and user occupancy.

Our end-goal is always to identify, strategize and conceptualize unique and innovative design solutions for each one of our clients. Gurrimatute makes this happen by regularly adopting new technologies, utilizing industry-best products, and implementing cutting-edge design trends and professional approaches. This method allows us to consistently offer the best solutions to the most challenging and non-intuitive of projects… time and time again.

We do technical. We do creativity. We collaborate. We grasp problems with two hands.

27 years

Established in 1996, Gurrimatute is celebrating it's 27th year in business.

85%

As a testament to our exceptional service, 85% of our clients are repeat clients.

Aviation

Trends in aviation design point to creating a more passenger friendly and safer experience for passengers, visitors, and airport staff. At Gurrimatute, we closely monitor changes in the industry caused by technology, cultural and social changes, and overall changes in the business and operation of airports to offer our clients multiple design solutions and options. This includes the introduction of new technology in aviation, more convenience-based services for passengers, more retail opportunities, more revenue generating opportunities for the airports, and enhanced security and communications.

Gurrimatute works closely with airport directors, facility and maintenance department directors in both forward-facing public spaces serving passengers as well as back-of-house operations and maintenance spaces.

Our Approach

Our design approach starts with the creation of a detailed work plan that identifies the key stakeholders and decision makers, a proposed design and construction schedule and the proposed construction budget.

Every project begins with a scope validation report, which confirms the scope of work, field investigation and assessment of the site and/or existing conditions, and a constructability plan that takes into account the airport’s operations and need to keep all life safety systems operational at all times. We bring in our subject matter experts at the conceptualization stage of the project to brainstorm and develop design options for our aviation clients.

Project Types

New Construction

Additions & Major Retrofits

New Baggage Handling Systems

Sterile Corridors

TSA Security Check Points

Ticketing Counters

Concession Spaces

Food Serving Establishments

Public Restrooms

Life Safety Design and Consulting

Employee Service Centers

Employee Locker Rooms & Restrooms

Automated People Mover Maintenance

Storage Facility Finish-out

Support Spaces

Maintenance Support Spaces

Control Rooms

Passenger Loading Bridges

Passenger Holding Areas

Sustainability

One of the Core Values at Gurrimatute is Environment. We design with the environment in mind and apply Green Design Concepts whether or not the project will be certified by a third party agency.

Sustainable design objectives can be met by implementing both passive and active systems. We always look for ways to increase passive systems including reviewing a building’s site orientation for ways to increase prevailing winds, the creation of shady outdoor areas for students, increasing natural light and views and overactive systems. We provide you with viable options to meet your sustainable goals and objectives, and if so desired, we have in-house LEED AP design professionals, certified with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) to design any project to be third party certified.

Overall, Gurrimatute is very experienced with the LEED process, including:

• Registering projects with USGBC, utilizing the current V4.1 rating systems

• Completing online templates

• Coordinating reviews with the USGBC

• Providing enhanced commissioning services

Project Experience

Building Information

Modeling (BIM)

We firmly believe in integrating technology into our design process not only as a tool to communicate more effectively with our clients, but also as a means to reduce unnecessary change orders during construction caused by clashing building systems.

Gurrimatute uses Autodesk Revit, a building information modeling program that provides added features and benefit to our clients by allowing us to perform Clash Detection on our 3-D models to identify any conflicts between structural beams, mechanical systems and any other building systems before the project goes into construction.

All of our design professionals are highly proficient with this program and can take any space and create a view for the owner to have a view of the entire space. The program enables the design staff to apply finishes and lighting for photo-realistic images of the projects.

Visualize

Generate photorealistic renderings. Create documentation with cut-aways and 3D view, and stereo panoramas to extend your design to virtual reality.

Analyze

Optimize building performance early in the design process, run cost estimates, and monitor performance changes over the project’s and building’s lifetime.

Coordinate

Since Revit is a multi-discipline BIM platform, we can share model data with engineers and contractors within Revit reducing coordination tasks.

New South-Central Checked Baggage Inspection System

Checked Baggage Reconciliation Areas Baggage Handling System Building at Miami International Airport Miami, Florida

This three story building is an addition to the existing Terminal and connecting back to Concourse G and H. The building houses the new baggage system to support the entire southern half of the airport. This project was partially funded by TSA and Miami-Dade County Aviation Department. Our scope of services included the complete design, preparation of construction documents, assistance in bidding phase, permitting, and construction administration phase services including site inspections.

The building is restricted to trained service personnel, while some areas are dedicated to the general public. The majority of the building has a high-degree of security, with access solely to DHS personnel with the use of Electronic Access Control. The first floor of the facility, the CBRA (Checked Baggage Resolution Area) uses EDX Matrix Equipment (Energy-Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy) to scan every piece of luggage in order to determine if it goes on directly to board the airplane, or if it requires further inspection. The second floor houses the CBIS (Checked Baggage Inspection System), where baggage sent from the CBRA is handled by automated robotics equipment and inspected by DHS personnel. The area of the building for the general public is the Secure Passenger Corridor at the Departures Level (second floor) between Concourse G and Concourse H. Life safety provisions were designed to segregate each area in case of emergency.

The facility also included a separate emergency generator for back-up power, in addition to the general airport emergency generators. The CBIS/CBRA Building was the first building at Miami International Airport designed above the flood criteria to meet Miami-Dade County’s Sea Level Rise Ordinance. The Project is scheduled to achieve LEED Gold Certification from the United Stated Green Building Council.

Size

71,000 sf

Completion

2019

Cost

$177M

Services

Architect of Record

Project Management

Construction Administration

Features

3-stories

Checked Baggage Inspection System

Checked Baggage Resolution Area

Designed for sea-level rise

Electronic access control

Emergency generators

Energy-Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy

Offices

Secure passenger corridor

Certifications

LEED Gold

*Subconsultant to Burns & McDonnell

Airport Operations Center/Emergency Operations

Center at Miami International Airport

Miami, Florida

The project consists of a new joint Airport Operations Center (AOC) and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to meet the needs of Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD). The joint AOC/EOC facility is a mission critical space for the support of airport operations on a day-to-day basis while providing consistent oversight to emergency events with utility infrastructure to sustain 24/7 operations. It is provided with sufficient space and program to facilitate both the immediate needs of the facility on day one while preserving the opportunity and flexibility of future needs. As the airport was functioning without a joint use facility of this type, the purpose of the project was to improve the overall response time to situations and improve the communication between affected departments. Gurrimatute worked with an AOC/EOC consultant to prepare a Concept of Operations (CONOPS) which became the program guide for the project. The CONOPS was developed after extensive interviews and meetings with the users as well as observations of current process.

The two major spaces in the project are the open AOC area, which houses representatives from Airfield Operations, Terminal Operations, Landside Operations, Security, Maintenance, Police, Information Systems, Public Relations and Digital Communications, Fire and Rescue, TSA and Customs Border Patrol (CBP). The second space is a large EOC which is immediately adjacent to the open AOC area. The entire suite has access-controlled entry and exit points from and to landside and airside.

Size

15,220 sf

Completion

2022

Cost

$18.5M

Services

Architect of Record

Interior Design

Project Management

Construction Administration

Features

625-sf data center

4-situation rooms

Break room

CONOPS

Electronic access control

Offices

Quite room

Video wall

Work console pods

Certifications

LEED Silver

Automated People Mover Maintenance & Storage

Facility Finish-out at Miami International Airport

Miami, Florida

The Maintenance and Storage Facility was constructed on levels 4 and 5 of the new North Terminal Expansion Building, between Concourses C and D at Miami International Airport to provide support facilities for the new Automated People Mover (APM) System. The project consists of the interior finish-out of approximately 87,000 sf of shell space and provides housing for the operation, maintenance, and service systems associated with the APM vehicles, passenger stations, and interface systems in general. Scope of work includes the interior tenant partitions layout, finishes and relevant MEP/FP systems. Roof work included new egress stairs and platforms.

Size

87,000 sf

Completion

2011

Cost

$4.1M

Services

Architect of Record

Project Management

Construction Administration

Features

Bogie workshop

Brake test room

CCR UPS room

Electrical workshop

File storage

Guideway equipment storage

Light APM maintenance

Maintenance track area

Mechanical and machine workshop

Men's and women's toilet rooms and locker room with raised flooring

Offices

Tire storage

Training room

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