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Meijer Building 989

The project consists of renovation of an existing 300,000 square foot distribution center warehouse into an office building which includes an 80,000 square foot Second Floor addition.  The project was a “fast track” design with six bid packages to speed up the construction process. The Meijer office building provides flexibility and interactivity programmed for an approximate 80% open office plan, demountable partition systems furniture and raised access floors throughout the entire facility.

Mechanical Engineering includes new under-floor air displacement HVAC system, separate boiler chiller plant facility. The design included new domestic water, storm water, sanitary sewer, gas piping, plumbing & HVAC systems for a new office building to include a full commercial kitchen operation.

Electrical Engineering includes interior power distribution design, from the local branch panels to the branch circuit loads, interior lighting design including branch circuiting and switching, interior telephone and data processing system provisions including empty conduit and junction box locations, new fire alarm and security systems. The design included provisions for a new commercial kitchen.

Structural Engineering includes the design of new 80,000 SF Second Floor within the existing high-bay structure. Existing foundations were able to remain utilized based on an optimized spacing of new supplemental columns and framing. Roof structure bays were opened to create an interior light well-courtyard. The entire building lateral load resisting system was replaced utilizing exposed vertical x-bracing. New stair and elevator towers and new monumental stairs at the building interior

Mahle Industries

The Mahle Industries equipment foundations encompassed designing two equipment foundations with extreme tolerances to deflection and soil vibration. The stringent conditions required soil analysis and vibration measurement to ensure the equipment was isolated from nearly all vibration. A heavy floating slab design was utilized to provide mass and ensure vibrations would not be transferred through the solid base foundation.

Another equipment foundation involved converting a manufacturer’s metric drawings and designing a foundation utilizing the standard system. Revit Structures was utilized to model the pocketed foundation, reinforcement, bar grating, baseplates, and anchors to deliver a coordinated model. Building the model beforehand flagged a dimensional discrepancy on the metric drawings.

Bradford White Training Center

The Bradford White Training Center project is the renovation of an existing single story 13,000 square foot office/warehouse building and 2 acre site with additions to their new technical training center. The project is LEED Gold certified. The existing open warehouse has been renovated into offices, classrooms, and a lab.

Mechanical engineering for the project included a new geothermal HVAC system with variable control refrigerant flow system and fan coils with individual temperature control in all offices. The system included a building energy management system with state of the art Honeywell Tridium control system. The project also included solar hot water design for domestic water. Design also included gas piping, fire protection, and roof storm water systems.

Electrical engineering included site lighting design, interior power distribution design which included power service design to the site along with coordination with the utility. Interior lighting design based on manufacturer’s fixtures included branch circuiting and switching. Provisions for interior telephone and data processing were included along with provisions for interior audio video, CCTV card access systems, on-site photovoltaic system, fire protection (sprinkler) monitoring system, and duct mounted smoke detection monitoring system. An emergency generator was specified for selected uninterrupted power systems.

Civil engineering included parking lot paving and striping layout, grading, stormwater management, and design of a roof water collection tank system to be used for landscape irrigation. The project required submission of stormwater management plans and design calculations for LEED.

Frederik Meijer Gardens Amphitheater

Comprehensive Engineering’s involvement in the Fredrik Meijer Gardens Amphitheater project consisted of specialized structural engineering, centering on a custom bowstring truss with a 90 foot clear span. To allow for changes in length due to thermal expansion slide bearing connections were utilized. Structural items related to concrete included durable epoxy coated reinforcement and a special sand blast finish.

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