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Georgia State Finance & Investment Commission Georgia Tech Institute of Technology
M & W Zander
Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Negotiated
202,000 Sq. Ft.
This project included a 145,000 sq. ft. clean-room building adjoining a 57,000 sq. ft. five-story lab/office building. The clean-room building consists of a sub-fab level, clean-room level, and fan deck level serving the clean room. A 600-ton redundant low-temperature chilled water plant is installed for outside air serving the clean room. An additional mechanical room serves the lab/office building and the fan deck of the clean-room space, providing chilled water from the campus utility loop. This mechanical room also provides heating hot water through steam converters.
Additional work includes the domestic water, sanitary, storm, and process systems. The process systems include utility nitrogen, lab gas, process cooling water, clean, dry air, vacuum, and solvent waste systems. This project has over twenty different piping systems. Piping was spooled and fabricated in our shop where applicable. Project scope was increased due to additional build-out of the project as funds became available through State and Federal grants. Mann Mechanical Company continues to be involved in budgeting and tenant build-out of the project.
GSFIC (Georgia State Finance & Insurance Commission)
CUH2A/Smith Carter
CUH2A
Gilbane Company
Negotiated
64,175
The building is a three-story (including basement) biological research laboratory facility. It includes office areas, BSL-2, BSL-3 and BSL-3AG laboratories. The base HVAC system consists of dedicated air handling units for different zones of the building such as one dedicated dual fan air handler unit for the high containment areas including BSL-3AG labs, dirty corridor and necropsy.
Each AHU has an individual humidification and VAV reheat system for the office and laboratory areas. These laboratory areas are 100% outside air with independent exhaust systems served by eight high-velocity projective exhaust fans.
The laboratories have fume hood exhaust, cylinder cabinet exhaust and independent pressure control at each lab. The steam is provided by the campus main power plant and the chilled water by two Trane chillers located in the basement mechanical room.
The plumbing consists of a sanitary waste system to serve the restrooms and break areas. The high containment areas have a bio-waste system made of welded stainless steel, which serves the laboratory sinks, cup sinks, restrooms, and floor drains. This bio-waste system ends with three waste kill system tanks.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Cooper Carry/Lake Flato
CUH2A
McCarthy Building Companies
208,098
Georgia Tech’s Engineered Biosystems Building provides flexible interdisciplinary laboratory space for researchers collaborating in the fields of Chemical Biology, Cell Therapies, and Systems Biology. The building creates a unique environment that connects people from multiple disciplines and departments, such as chemists, engineers, biologists, and computational scientists from two separate Colleges, the College of Engineering and the College of Science. The building was developed with a highly utilized equipment corridor securely linking vertical circulation to every laboratory and support space while allowing wide transparency into research labs. A specialized animal research facility is located in the building’s basement, including operating rooms, aquatics and animal holding rooms.
Emory University
Hellmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum, CUH2A
Nottingham, Brooke, & Pennington
Negotiated
325,000
The building is a seven-story biomedical research laboratory facility. The building includes office areas and BSL-3 laboratories. The building base HVAC system consists of six custom air handling units using a common mixing air plenum.
All six air handling units are serving two VAV type, medium pressure ductwork systems serving all spaces. The base building system was provided with four enthalpy energy recovery wheels to reduce energy consumption required by the high rate of outside air required. The building is also equipped with a general exhaust system provided with tight control exhaust air valves for the laboratory areas.
The laboratories are equipped with fume hoods, canopies, snorkels and biosafety cabinets. Each laboratory was provided with stand-alone control system to be able to control all functions within the space.
The laboratories have animal holding facilities, which were provided with dedicated ventilation systems.
The mechanical room includes two steam operated hot water heaters and cage tunnel washer with robotic arm and conveying belts.
The chilled water is provided from the campus’s main chiller plant.
The plumbing consists of a sanitary waste system to serve the restrooms and break areas. The laboratories are provided with an acid waste system made of glass and Fuseal flame retardant polypropylene, which serves all of the laboratory sinks, cup sinks, and floor drains. The acid waste leaves the facility and enters a 500-gallon acid dilution tank before going to the city sewer. The laboratories have a central domestic hot water, vacuum, compressed air, and natural gas system. All other gases are individually bottled in cylinder rooms and cabinets.
Ciba Vision
Patterson West
Leo A. Daly
Leo A. Daly
Negotiated
Office: 42,000
Laboratory: 48,000
The facility consists of two types of mechanical systems, air handling units with VAV/PIU system for the office area and 100% outside air design with the capability to exhaust this volume by using a central laboratory exhaust system.
The office area consists of two chill water/hot water air handling units to serve the lower level, first floor and second floor perimeter offices. The laboratories are served by one air handling unit with humidification and a VAV box with hot water reheat and independent pressure control at each lab.
The support for this system includes two steam boilers, three centrifugal chillers and three cooling towers. There is also a process water loop and a separate 80# steam boiler to service the laboratories. The entire facility is DDC controlled and operated. It is monitored after hours with a digital pager receiving all alarms.
The plumbing consists of a sanitary waste system to serve the restrooms and break areas. The laboratories have an acid waste system of fuseal acid resistant pipe made of flame retardant polypropylene and three acid dilution tanks with two re-circulating pumps and two transfer pumps being controlled from a LED panel. The laboratories have a central domestic hot water compressed air, nitrogen, natural gas and D.I. water systems.