The museum administration and its asset management in-house committee have signed a contract with a physician-led firm, offering a PC approach to improve the building environment to assist in furnishing, installing, commissioning, monitoring, measuring, and reporting on the museum’s indoor environment.

The IPD team, which includes corporate management’s building committee of building managers, the leasing manager, capital projects manager, and facility manager — along with a new corporate BIM manager — will design-construct, operate, and maintain BIM contract document standards for all future capital projects, new and tenant fit-out.

The existing equipment to remain as part of the condenser water system includes the plate and frame heat exchangers and split-case pumps with standby pumps, each with variable frequency drives (VFDs). 

A new central chilled water plant will replace the existing units while reusing recently replaced high-performance cooling towers.

The design criteria is based on an analytical analysis of existing refrigeration conditions, associated operation, and proactive maintenance management in sync with the hospital’s overall updating the policy and procedure manual as it pertains to refrigerant management and the environment.

The finalized system selection shall be a decentralized HVAC system with decentralized HVAC air systems and terminal units with central plant heating and central plant air conditioning.

A new central air system will replace the existing unit to provide improved HVAC to the renovation space being converted to a study hall on the college campus building.

The new insulated hot water system shall replace the existing pipe distribution and shall include an in-line circulator and standby circulator, normally open ATC control valves to the radiant heat food warmers, DOAS heating, and existing dishwasher heating/booster coil.

An unexpected heating system failure on the south side of a K-8, one-story series of classrooms resulted in no hot water heating to the perimeter.