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Project Description: The Infantry Brigade Combat Team Headquarters at Fort Bliss are comprised of 2 buildings that are mirror images of each other. They include consolidated Brigade and Battalion Headquarters for a Brigade building with two large Brigade Headquarters for Infantry, 6 large stand-alone Battalion Headquarters for a Brigade Support Battalion, three Maneuver Battalions, a Field Artillery Battalion, and Special Troops Battalion. Each Battalion will have all of its functions on a single floor. The building is made up of floor plates with varying heights. This includes single, two, and three story masses.
Project Size: 130,000 square feet per building
Project Cost: $50M
Owner: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
GC: Archer Weston
Architect: VOA Associates, Inc.
Scope of Work: In addition to fundamental commissioning of the MEP systems and 10% verification of the T&B readings and a complete review of the T&B report, TMCx conducted building envelope testing and design review. The testing included thermal imaging, building pressurization and air barrier testing. Using a 600 square foot building mock-up, the building envelope tests identified several major issues, including the expansion joints were not properly prepped, so they blew off during testing. Additionally, there was major leakage in the roof.
Results: After the results of the mock building tests, the TMCx Team was able to identify these and other issues during the design review and construction of the 2 IBCT buildings. The mock-up test issues were corrected and the 2 real buildings passed the envelope building test with flying colors, increasing their energy efficiency.
Project Description: .A multi-phased project, consisting of replacing the existing Model 1010 and 2020 fire alarm control panels with new 3030 series fire alarm systems. The first phase consisted of 18 buildings and was substantially completed in 2009. The second phase of 22 buildings will be completed in 2010. Amgen is a contiguous property with each building protected by a Local Protective Premise System that reports to a Proprietary Supervising Station.
Project Size: Average size of buildings is 50,000 to
100,000 sq ft
Project Cost: $300M
Scope of Work: With the approval of the Ventura County Fire Department, TMCx Life Safety was retained by Amgen to perform third-party special inspections of the fire alarm system. TMCx reviewed the fire alarm contractor’s shop drawings for code compliance and identified inconsistencies with actual field conditions.
Project Description: BCBSAZ is committed to provide future buildings that contain user-friendly space, as well as the flexibility to allow multiple changes in space configurations to accommodate company structure changes. The Townley Campus, Phase 1 is one of the first BCBSAZ projects to use this approach. Consisting of a two-story Data Center and a four-story Office Building, this project includes approximately 150,000 SF of interior build-out with a cafeteria, workspaces, computer server rooms, conference and multi-purpose rooms. Staff areas were designed to have plenty of natural day light, access to views, spaces for interaction with colors and finishes that promote well-being and productivity.
Data Center and Equipment Description: The data center on the Townley Campus includes MEP support systems, resulting in a Tier III Redundancy Level. The electrical systems consist of:
· A UPS system with a N+1 configuration for added protection,
· Three generators with paralleling switchgear,
· Three utility services/transformers, electrical distribution,
· Power Distribution Units, and Remote Power Panels feeding the individual IT Data Center Equipment.
The HVAC Central Plant consists of two chillers supplying chilled water and distributed through a variable flow loop piping system to the data center. The Computer Room Air Conditioners distribute cooling air throughout the Data Center’s raised floor areas.
Project Size: 45,000 square feet + a 105,000 square-foot Operation’s Support Building
Date Completed: 2009
Scope of Work: TMCx Solutions successfully commissioned the critical mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, from design reviews through construction. Specific tasks included design reviews & consulting, creating a commissioning plan, contractor Pre-functional Checklists, verification, documentation, managing commissioning activities and meetings, administering the issues logs, directing all TMCx developed functional test procedures, complete Integrated Systems Testing, with multiple failure scenarios, and writing the final commissioning report.
To meet BCBSAZ requirements and using all in-house solutions, TMCx provided a true turn-key approach by supplying all Electrical Acceptance Testing to meet NETA Standards, Circuit Breaker Primary Injection Testing, Power Quality Data Recording/Analysis, Portable Load Banking that included a simulated client raised floor IT production load, and Infrared Thermography.