Malaysia Airlines New Simulator Building

Scope of works

New simulator building complete with EV charging stations and a chilled water supply drawn from the KLIA DCS plant.

A flight simulator building is a precision facility wearing an industrial shell: simulator bays demand stable temperatures, clean power and structural isolation, while the building around them behaves like any other commercial development. The new Malaysia Airlines simulator building took its cooling as chilled water from the KLIA district cooling plant — connecting a specialist facility to precinct-scale infrastructure rather than building plant it did not need.

The scope also included EV charging stations, with the incoming supply and distribution designed for the load. The project shows both ends of our practice at once: precinct energy infrastructure on one side, building-level services engineering on the other.

Technical particulars

Cooling source

Chilled water from the KLIA DCS plant

Additional

EV charging stations

What this kind of commission involves

Commercial and corporate work is nearly always a retrofit inside a building that keeps trading. The design problem is ordinary; the constraint is not. Access windows, rigging routes, noise limits, landlord approvals and the fact that the floor below is occupied determine what can actually be built more often than the load calculation does.

Disciplines engaged

• Air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation, including tenant fit-out interfaces
• Chiller plant replacement, VRF/VRV retrofit or district cooling connection
• Electrical distribution, submetering and tenant supply arrangements
• Lighting design, controls and daylight response
• Fire protection, detection, smoke control and means of escape services
• Cold water, sanitary plumbing and drainage within occupied floors
• Building automation, metering and energy monitoring
• ICT pathways, security and audio-visual supporting services
• EV charging infrastructure and incoming capacity assessment
• Phased handover and commissioning around trading hours

What we watch for

The failures that recur on this building type, and where we look for them.

• Plant selected before the rigging route has been surveyed end to end
• Temporary cooling responsibility left unassigned in the contract
• Existing risers and shafts assumed to have spare capacity
• Commissioning attempted on an empty building, then failing under real load

The following describes the standard engineering scope for this sector. The specific scope of any individual commission is set by its brief and contract.

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