Orlando International Airport (MCO) Fuel Farm Access System Modernization

Four Platforms, and No Way Between Them

The fuel farm's pumps and equipment were served by fall protection platforms installed over time as disconnected sections rather than a unified network. Maintenance personnel repeatedly climbed up and down between areas and crossed over horizontal piping — inefficient, non-continuous, and not fully aligned with current OSHA requirements.

Engineered to Interface, Not to Replace

JE designed and installed a custom galvanized steel access system that connected the previously isolated platform sections into one continuous, OSHA-compliant elevated network — engineered to interface directly with the existing infrastructure rather than replace it, preserving the customer's prior capital investment.

An outdoor fuel farm is a corrosion environment that never lets up.

Galvanized steel was selected for long-term corrosion resistance in an outdoor industrial environment — the same reasoning that puts marine alloys on JE's harbour work, applied to a fuel facility in Florida.

A Continuous OSHA-Compliant Network, Built Without Replacing Existing Infrastructure

Technicians can now travel across the entire fuel farm without repeatedly returning to ground level, no longer stepping over piping systems, with every pump and maintenance point connected through one continuous access network.

JE connected every previously isolated platform section at the MCO fuel farm into one continuous access network — upgrading the entire route to current OSHA compliance while preserving and extending the life of existing infrastructure.

Where This Project Connects

Extending infrastructure rather than replacing it is its own discipline — and this is the second JE programme where the existing structure stayed and the access around it changed.