Terminal Container Yard and Intermodal Yard, Pierce County Terminal, Tacoma, WA
The Port of Tacoma Commission approved a $341 million capital improvement plan that included widening the Blair Waterway and redeveloping Pierce County Terminal into a major container terminal.
The Pierce County Terminal project included a container yard, 12-track intermodal yard, seven-track support yard, infrastructure, utilities relocation, roadway work, traffic revisions, and waterway and turning basin widening.
Wood Harbinger provided the mechanical and electrical design and construction administration for the intermodal yard compressed air systems.
Compressed air is distributed for brake testing to multiple locations on the 12-track intermodal yard, including nearly 3.5 miles of underground compressed air piping. The system includes pneumatic brake system service boxes in multiple locations along each of the 12 intermodal yard railway tracks, a heated and ventilated compressor building, and electrical service to support the intermodal yard compressed air system.
The compressor building, as well as the compressed air and electrical distribution systems, are designed for future expansion of the intermodal rail yard, with a planned capacity increase of 50 percent over what is currently installed.