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| ORNL Advanced Materials Characterization Laboratory (AMCL)
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee The AMCL houses state-of-the-art electron beam instruments in a facility that does not compromise their performance. Because of the extremely high performance characteristics of these electron beam instruments, they are sensitive to environmental influences such as fluctuating magnetic fields, microphonics, floor vibrations, electrical ground loops, air turbulence and temperature variations. The primary purpose of the AMCL is to house these sensitive instruments in a way that will not compromise their design resolutions.
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| West End Medical Centers
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Atlanta, GA Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided retro-commissioning services.
Due to post-occupancy problems, the owners of West End Medical Centers and Wachovia Financial Real Estate Services engaged WB to retro-commission this new facility. WB uncovered major deficiencies in the mechanical and architectural systems and worked with the general contractor and architect to resolve problems. WB has also been engaged to act as facility coordinator in an ongoing role to ensure facility operations.
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| Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
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New York, New York
Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for laboratory facilities including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, laboratory systems including transgenic/SCID mice breeding, BSL-2 and BSL-3 research suites, PCR suite and FACS room, sequence and synthesis suites, freezer areas and cold rooms, blood collection suites and video-teleconferencing facilities.
WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for the renovation of the largest private facility in the world dedicated to AIDS research. Located on multiple floors of the Public Health Laboratory Building in New York, the center includes research facilities for HIV pathogenesis and transmission, vaccine development, virus production and diagnostic testing development.
R&D Magazine Laboratory of the Year - Special Mention Award – 1992
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| AlphaVax Human Vaccines, Inc.
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Research Triangle, North Carolina Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services including mechanical, electrical, plumbing and laboratory systems for the BSL-3 laboratory. Systems commissioned included: refrigeration and heat rejection, heating water generation, humidification, supply air delivery, exhaust air, HVAC controls, domestic water distribution, biological waste, compressed air, vacuum air, power distribution, lighting, and emergency power generation.
WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for the AlphaVax BSL-3 laboratory research facility. This research facility is working towards developing a vaccination for the AIDS virus.
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| Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City
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Kansas City, Missouri Services provided: WorkingBuildings performed retro-commissioning and a complete forensic investigation of mechanical systems, including installation verification, modification of controls, airflow and water flow evaluation, and functional performance testing of all mechanical systems. Project scope included evaluation of these systems in the landside facility and the floating casino vessels.
Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City is one of the nation’s top-ten largest casinos and includes restaurants, bars, amusement areas and a 5-story hotel. This facility has 140,000 SF of gaming space and nearly $2 million in stained glass complements. The facility earned the 2002 and 2003 Gold Award for “Best Casino” in Ingram’s Best of Business Edition and “2003 Favorite Casino Hotel in Missouri” in Midwest Gaming and Travel and Casino Player Magazine.
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| Arabia Mountain High School
|  Lithonia, GA
Status: Ongoing
Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing total commissioning and LEED consulting.
The Arabia Mountain High School will be built on 54 acres of land and will serve approximately 1,600 students in grades 9-12. The facility will include general and special purpose classrooms, media center, gymnasium, theater, kitchen, and guidance and administrative offices.
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| Arizona State University Biodesign Institute Building A
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Tempe, Arizona
Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided BSL-3 suite validation services, operational readiness review and CDC/NIH audit preparation.
AZ Biodesign Institute - Phase I - The 170,000 gross-square-foot building provides lab and office space for cutting-edge research in areas such as neural rehabilitation, genomics, molecular biophysics, neutraceuticals and edible vaccines, and nano-scale bio-optics and bioscience. The research is interdisciplinary in nature, with a focus on the life sciences, bioengineering and biotechnology. The design of the building includes an open, flexible interior that encourages research collaboration and lets the building evolve to fit specific project needs. The design features three floors with a sub-basement and houses more than 330 researchers. The Biodesign Institute is master-planned as four interconnected buildings comprising nearly 800,000 sq. ft. It is Arizona’s largest single investment in research infrastructure.
The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has been named 2006 Laboratory of the Year by R&D Magazine.
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| Arizona State University Biodesign Institute Building B
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Tempe, Arizona Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, laboratory systems, and laboratory equipment. WB also provided BSL-3 operational review services and preparatory services for a CDC/NIH audit. The building is LEED registered and targeting Silver level certification.
AZ Biodesign Institute - Phase II - The facility will provide lab and office space for cutting-edge research in areas such as research on tuburculosis, infectious diseases, cancer, bio-informatics and medical devices. The Institute blends research in biology, medicine, engineering, nanotechnology and computing to cure and prevent disease, overcome the limitations of injury, sustain the environment, and support national security.
Transparency and open space is a design characteristic of the Institute. There are few walls between the labs of the dozen separate research centers, and an extensive use of glass eliminates visual barriers between the labs, offices and atrium. The lab benches are wheeled, with all utilities and data lines accessed through the ceilings, enabling maximum flexibility. Some distinct features of the labs include reduced vibration and electromagnetic interference that could negatively impact sensitive equipment settings.
One of the inventive aspects of the facility design is a central atrium that is the spine of the facility, stretching 448 ft. down the length of the Institute - about the length of one-and-a-half football fields - allowing natural light to flow into all four levels of the facility. The Biodesign Institute is master-planned as four interconnected buildings comprising nearly 800,000 sq. ft. It is Arizona’s largest single investment in research infrastructure.
The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has been named 2006 Laboratory of the Year by R&D Magazine.
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| Athens-Clarke County Fire Station
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The fire station will include sleeping quarters, a full kitchen, garage and offices.
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| Athens-Clarke County Library
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Athens, GA Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning services including mechanical, electrical, plumbing and building envelope.
The library project consists of an addition and a partial renovation. The library space will include additional area dedicated to meeting space, media and stacks for books.
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| Callaway Gardens Southern Pine Conference Center
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Pine Mountain, Georgia Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided mechanical, electrical, fire alarm, fire protection and plumbing commissioning services and LEED™ consulting. The facility is LEED certified.
The Southern Pine Conference Center is the first LEED™ certified business conference center. Large windows and generous terraces blend the indoors with the outdoors, providing a peaceful, natural atmosphere conducive to meetings. The carefully chosen site allows the facility to blend into the landscape, providing continuity in the natural environment.
The architectural concept of The Southern Pine was to create a series of connected spaces that wind through the landscape, creating a village-in-a-garden atmosphere. The building and the Gardens are intertwined in a forest setting. The landscape is the centerpiece of the area.
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| Atlanta Public Safety Headquarters
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Atlanta, GA Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning services including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing.
The five-story headquarters will provide office space for high-ranking police force officers, chaplain’s office, medical service, interview rooms, video surveillance area, tactical equipment storage, bunk rooms, archival storage, and a cyber crimes office.
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| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Building 19
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Atlanta, Georgia
Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided mechanical systems commissioning services. The facility is LEED registered. The face of the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was designed to create an inviting atmosphere while maintaining a high level of security. As the Global Communications Center, information will be sent out to 7,500 imployees, 3,500 governmental units and more than a half million public health science professionals.
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| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Building 21
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Atlanta, GA Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire/life safety systems. The facility is LEED Silver.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's goal is to maintain an open workplace with enhanced communications without compromising a high level of security. Special attention was paid to the conservation of energy by maximizing the ability to capture exterior light combined with the use of specially glazed external shades.
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| Charleston Southern University New Science Center
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Charleston, South Carolina Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided mechanical, electrical, life safety and fume hood commissioning services.
This new facility will support undergraduate teaching and multidisciplinary research, providing additional space and equipment to address the university’s continued growth. The two-story facility will house the biology department, including molecular/ cellular biology, genetics, and biochemistry teaching and research space; the chemistry department, including organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical teaching and research space; and specialized greenhouse, animal holding, and tissue culture spaces. Faculty offices will also be housed in the building. The space will be primarily composed of laboratories for biology, chemistry, and biochemistry, molecular biology, and some classrooms and faculty offices.
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| DC Consolidated Laboratory
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Washington, DC Size: 315,000 SF
Cost: $186,000,000
Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing total building commissioning services including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and threat analysis and standard operating procedures development.
This multi-story building will include a BSL-3 laboratory and a forensic biology (DNA analysis) laboratory. It will also house The Public Health Lab of the Department of Health, The Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the Washington, DC Morgue, The Metropolitan Police Department Forensics Lab, and associated offices. The project is LEED registered with a goal to achieve silver level certification.
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| East Central Georgia Public Library
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Augusta, Georgia Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning services including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection.
This three-story library will serve three functions, including providing library services for the downtown community; serving as headquarters for the East Central Georgia Regional Library, administering the activities of fifteen branches in six counties; and as the resource and reference center for the branches in its service area. This facility also will include state of the art computer spaces featuring wireless access, the most current technology information services, computer access for persons with disabilities, and a variety of audiovisual resources. The library will provide space specifically designed for adult and youth services with areas designated for technology services, meetings and studying.
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| Emory University George W. Woodruff PE Center
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Atlanta, GA Services Provided: WorkingBuildings provided total building commissioning services including architectural, mechanical, electrical, and life safety. Our services included before and after thermographic analysis of the building envelope (walls and roof).
This facility renovation includes adding a top floor, which will have tennis courts, a weight and workout area, classrooms and offices. Over 70% of the building envelope was repaired and enhanced as part of this project.
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| Georgia Cancer Coalition Center of Excellence at Grady Memorial Hospital
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Atlanta, Georgia Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for the mechanical, electrical, fire/life safety and plumbing systems.
WorkingBuildings completed commissioning services for the first Georgia Cancer Coalition Center of Excellence. This facility occupies two renovated floors in Grady Memorial Hospital. It consists of examination rooms, diagnostic and treatment procedure rooms, wet and dry research laboratories and support spaces.
This project was recently awarded the Southeastern Design and Construction Excellence Award.
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| Georgia Public Health Laboratory, Decatur, Georgia
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Decatur, Georgia Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided retro-commissioning services.
Facility highlights include a gently curved ceiling, and clerestory windows allow natural light to fill the building. Windows between laboratory and clerical areas provide visual communication and align directly with exterior windows in surrounding offices, allowing exterior views from deep within the building. A central accessioning area provides efficient distribution of specimens, while an innovative open laboratory format allows flexibility and encourages communication among workers.
The building is constructed of Georgia granite recovered from tombstone scrap, providing an inexpensive and durable ground-level exterior. Recycled-copper shingles form the upper portion of the exterior wall. A sunscreen of curved aluminum tubes surrounds the glazed curtain wall in the two-story lobby. Vertical granite piers shade offices from late-day sun, and insulating low-emissivity coated glass is used on all exterior windows to reduce energy costs.
R&D Magazine Laboratory of the Year Award - 1998
2001 AIA Georgia Design Award
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| Georgia Public Health Laboratory, Waycross, Georgia
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Waycross, Georgia Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing total building commissioning services, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, laboratory systems and building envelope.
The Waycross location is a regional laboratory, smaller in scale, providing services to the central labs including routine clinical chemistry and hemoglobinopathy screeening. Newborn screening and HIV testing accounts for the largest number of specimens.
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| Georgia State University Science Park
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Atlanta, Georgia Size: 374,100 GSF
Cost: $106,181,114 Services provided: Total building commissioning for two buildings including high containment for BSL-2, 3, and 4.
Facility description: Features include instructional laboratories, research space and office space for various science and nursing programs. The research laboratory building will contain laboratory and office space for neurosciences, biochemistry, and biotechnology, including the vivarium.
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| GSA Social Security Administration Building
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Birmingham, Alabama Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing total building commissioning services including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and supplemental LEED consulting services. This project is LEED registered.
The new eight-story office building includes a five-level, 1,765 space parking deck. The facility will have a data center, office space, and cafeteria. It will also feature a green roof. The project goal is to achieve a LEED Silver rating.
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| GSA IDIQ
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Nationwide Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing ongoing commissioning services for facilities including mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection.
The General Services Administration (GSA), with 13,000 employees, is the federal government’s foremost acquisition agency. The GSA influences the management of $66 billion in federal spending throughout its eleven regional offices. The GSA creates policies to assist federal agencies in improving their services to the public. The GSA manages 8,300 government owned or leased buildings with more than $500 billion in federal assets.
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| Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building
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Atlanta, Georgia Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning services for the planning, designing, and preparation of construction documents for the rehabilitation and renovation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building. Commissioning services include architectural, mechanical, electrical, fire alarm and fire/life safety. WorkingBuildings is serving as the LEED consultant for this project. The project is LEED registered project.
The construction of the original building was completed in 1933, and it functioned as the main U. S. Post Office for Atlanta until 1980. In 1981, the U.S. General Services Administration assumed management of the building for various uses, including storage and office space. WorkingBuildings is providing support in combining state-of-the-art technologies with this historical and elegant building.
This building was designed and constructed to accommodate the rapidly expanding volume of the Postal Service, which was then oriented around a single, central processing facility. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Building and its features were "state of the art", and reflected the growth of Federal institutions in America. Furthermore, its various links with the Terminal Station, formerly located across Spring Street, reveal the Post Office's reliance on the railroads prior to the rise of Airmail service and long range truck oriented mail routing.
The size, scale and character of this building reflect the growth of the Federal government as an institution. It is also noteworthy as being relatively typical of other Federal buildings of the era, and by being built by the Work Projects Administration which offered employment to construction workers and craftsmen.
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| Medical College of Georgia Cancer Research Center
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Augusta, Georgia Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning services for laboratory equipment, fire/life safety, electrical systems, mechanical – including HVAC and plumbing systems, network, and building envelope.
This state-of-the-art 21st Century facility will lead cancer research in the Southeastern United States. The center will include research laboratories, laboratory support spaces, research offices, administrative offices, clinical trials support office, and meeting/seminar rooms. Program components will include bio-informatics, tissue/tumor bank, open laboratory plan, BSL-3 containment rooms, and dry and wet laboratories. This facility will also include cancer biology, radiation biology, DNA repair, chaperone biology, viral oncology, cell imaging, cross-linking core, tissue culture, BSL-3 suite, production laboratory chemical reagents, and immunotherapy/chemokine laboratories.
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| Medical College of Georgia Interdisciplinary Research Center
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Augusta, GA Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided total building commissioning services including building envelope, mechanical, electrical, fire alarm, fire/life safety, laboratory system and decontamination.
The IRC is a five-story building that contains one floor each of animal housing and research space, biomedical technology transfer space, physiology research space and genomic research space. The facility provides the requisite support and service facilities to foster and maintain a state-of-the-art research environment, and the lab floors feature flexible open plan laboratories with lab support spaces and offices.
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| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama
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Birmingham, AL
Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing total building commissioning services including building envelope, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, controls, environmental room, laboratories, and laboratory equipment – cagewash, autoclave, tissue digester, irradiator, FACS, fume hoods, and safety equipment.
Research includes infectious diseases, immunology and allergy such as AIDS, malaria, influenza and the transmissible agents associated with "mad cow" disease. Extensive research into the immune system is also a large part of the research conducted here. | |
| New Jersey Public Health Environmental Agriculture Laboratory
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Trenton, NJ Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing total building commissioning services including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, laboratory systems, decontamination, animal holding, standard operating procedure review, security review, and architectural review of containment areas and risk mitigation and threat analysis.
The Health, Environmental and Agricultural Laboratory is comprised of a mix of space types necessary to support the agency's current health, agricultural and environmental missions. 180,000 square feet will be dedicated to specialized laboratories, and 95,000 square feet to administrative and support space. Specialized spaces will include a BSL-3 and ABSL laboratory with appropriate design and infrastructure to safely handle select agents, dangerous pathogens and highly toxic chemicals, which represent a threat to the public health. Necropsy laboratory space will enable the detection of animal borne diseases that threaten both animal and human populations, and a plant science lab greenhouse will provide facilities for the evaluation and prevention of threats to agricultural resources. Capability will be provided to support testing of environmental resources in coordination with the Department of Environmental Protection.
The design of the facility will comply with the current and mandatory requirements and operational standards of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and the United States Department of Agriculture.
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| New Mexico Tri-Services Laboratory
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Albuquerque, NM Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing total building commissioning services including architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire/life safety systems and equipment, controls systems, documentation review, design intent and witnessing HVAC piping test and flushing procedures, standard operation procedure development and LEED consulting services. The building is LEED registered.
The new facility will house the Department of Health Scientific Laboratory and the Office of the Medical Examiner and Veterinary Diagnostic Unit. The building will primarily contain office and laboratory space and will include a BSL-3 lab. The preliminary configuration is a multi-story laboratory space with an office wing.
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| Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee WorkingBuildings has provided various types of commissioning services for ten ORNL projects to date.
Services provided: WorkingBuildings has provided a variety of commissioning and commissioning-related services including: mechanical system commissioning, electrical system commissioning, fire/life safety system commissioning, building envelope commissioning, security system commissioning, lifecycle cost analysis, noise and vibration testing, room and building pressurization testing, and building energy usage modeling.
WorkingBuildings is providing total building commissioning services including architectural, mechanical, electrical, fire alarm, fire life safety, and LEED™ consulting, as well as Title I commissioning services.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multi-program science and technology laboratory. Scientists and engineers at ORNL conduct basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the national leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security.
ORNL also performs other work for the Department of Energy, including isotope production, information management, and technical program management, and provides research and technical assistance to other organizations.
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| ORNL East Campus Development
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for the mechanical, electrical, fire/life safety, plumbing, process lab systems and building envelope systems.
The East Campus Private Development is a cluster of four, three-story laboratory buildings, including the Computational Sciences Building, Research Office Building, Engineering Technology Building, and Research Support Center. The facilities, which are connected by a main street corridor, house offices, conference rooms, laboratories, supercomputer rooms, clean rooms, and a central energy plant. The Computational Sciences Building includes a central energy plant for the three main buildings and two other new buildings nearby. This building also features a 40,000 SF computer center housing the world's fastest supercomputer capable of 63 trillion calculations per second.
The building size, shape, architecture, exterior finish, and landscaping designs blend with the surrounding community, and the landscaping and roofs design reduce the urban heat-island effect of the buildings. Once the drought-tolerant landscaping is mature, it will require no irrigation. In addition to considerations of cost and aesthetic value, materials selections were made based on recycled content, low emissions of volatile organic compounds, insulation value, and durability. Other sustainable features include efficient lights, occupancy sensors, Energy Star rated office equipment, and a well-insulated, airtight building envelope. The facility is projected to use 23% less energy than a comparable, minimally code-compliant laboratory facility.
The distribution of space includes office (55%), laboratory (30%), data processing (10%), conference (4%), public assembly (2%), restrooms (2%), mechanical systems (2%), and electrical systems (1%).
Computer Science Building (LEED Certified) 133,000 SF
Research Office Building (LEED Certified) 137,000 SF
Engineering Technology Facility (LEED Certified) 98,000 SF
Research Support Center (LEED Certified) 125,000 SF
Central Energy Plant 7,650 SF
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| ORNL High Bay Facility
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for the following systems: mechanical, electrical, fire alarm, fire protection and bridge crane. WB is also coordinating observations made by ORNL personnel and design professionals into a common database to facilitate tracking of construction-related issues.
The multi-program High Bay Facility is a pre-engineered metal building and supporting infrastructure sized to accommodate the heavy industrial research needs of several ORNL research and development programs. The building is 25,000 square feet of ground floor space for laboratory and experimental space and approximately 5000 square feet of 2nd floor (mezzanine) control room space.
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| ORNL Joint Institute of Computational Sciences (JICS)
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided total building commissioning services including building envelope, mechanical, electrical, fire alarm, fire/life safety, and LEED™ consulting for this state-of-the-art building. This facility earned a LEED Silver certification. WB was the LEED consultant for the project.
The facility design is oriented around several key features, including a raised floor computer center laboratory, a large lecture hall, a specially equipped distant learning center and four self-contained incubator suites for computer-based collaborations.
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| Puerto Rico World Trade Center
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San Juan, Puerto Rico Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing energy modeling, fundamental and enhanced commissioning including HVAC, building automation control systems, lighting control systems, daylighting controls, plumbing and renewable energy systems.
This dramatic building is designed to be the centerpiece of the new Americas World Trade District that includes hotels, entertainment venues and shopping. This 10-story office building features wave form roofs for a dramatic Caribbean façade that overlooks the water.
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| Rice University Collaborative Research Center
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Houston, TX WorkingBuildings is providing LEED consulting as well as commissioning for mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection and fire alarm.
The facility will feature an eight-story laboratory tower. The first four floors will contain the 10,000 square feet of retail space, vivarium, classrooms and 280 seat auditorium. Rice University is one of the many members of the Texas Medical Center Institutions and plans to use the new facility to collaborate with researchers focusing on bioscience and biotechnology in the pursuit of non-invasive treatments for diseases currently treated with surgical procedures. Rice University plans to put construction for the facility on a fast track to make it ready for occupancy in 2009.
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| The Rockefeller University Collaborative Research Center
|  New York, NY
Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning of the mechanical and electrical systems.
This project comprises part of The Rockefeller University Modernization Program and will renovate two laboratory research buildings and add a bridging building that will connect the two structures on all floors. The work will include an entirely new infrastructure, window replacements, restoration of the facades, and replacement penthouses. The new laboratories will have an open space plan in which circulation is through internal laboratory aisles. The laboratory support space will include equipment rooms, environmental rooms, procedure rooms, instrument rooms and fume hood alcoves, and office space.
The bridging building will incorporate all amenities such as restrooms, elevators, conference and meeting rooms, snack areas and pantries. To create the desired collaborative setting, a wooden “scroll” travels up through the six story atrium to create a warm and inviting place to linger and discuss science in informal meeting spaces equipped with audiovisual technologies of flat screen projection and smart boards. The interior scroll will be woven together with the glass facade, both wrapping the communal space and linking indoors and outdoors. There will be a 200 seat lecture hall below the atrium. The 30 seat and 15 seat conference rooms on each floor of the bridging building will be fully outfitted with state of the art audiovisual technology. The Bridge will be clad in a glass curtain wall on the west façade, which will curve out towards the lawn. The east façade will be a combination of limestone and glass curtain wall.
The completed project will have eight occupied floors, an upper mechanical level and a new chiller plant in the basement. The project contains approximately 200,000 gsf of renovation and 50,000 gsf of new construction.
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| The Rockefeller University Laboratory Animal Research Center
|  New York, NY
Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning of the mechanical and electrical systems.
The six story LARC Annex building program is to include offices, conference rooms a training/break room with kitchenette for administrative functions associated with the management of vivarium operations, and offices, work stations and storage for research equipment for the various behavioral science groups performing research in the building. Research spaces, which include approximately forty-six (46) testing rooms, will function as behavioral test rooms, procedure and/or holding rooms. The spaces will be a ABSL-1.
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| The Rockefeller University Welch Hall Library Modernization
| New York, NY
Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning of the mechanical and electrical systems.
The University’s Strategic Plan calls for the renovation of Welch Hall into a state-of—the-art library and scientific information commons. As a vital component of the University’s academic infrastructure, the modernized library will offer an electronic reference center where faculty and students can access an extensive array of information resources, as well as a collection of print materials chosen with discrimination to meet the needs of the Rockefeller community. The facility will be staffed with highly trained scientist-librarians to help investigators ask new questions, forge connections between fields and specialties, and promote novel integrative approaches to thinking. The facility will provide space for intellectual exchange and collegiality as well as space for the more traditional library activities: quiet contemplation, reading, and reflection.
By transforming the library into a vibrant scientific information commons, Rockefeller will reclaim for this facility its historic role as the social and intellectual heart of the university.
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| Russell Library & Information Technology Center Georgia College and State University
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Milledgeville, GA Services Provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services including thermographic analysis of the building envelope, as well as commissioning the mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire/life safety systems.
The total renovation of the existing archival facility and new library and technology facility in this multi-phase project involves work to be completed in two phases. Phase 1 is a 95,319 SF addition to the present Ina Dillard Russell Library. Phase II renovates the existing 44,413 SF building. The new Russell Library & Information Technology Center will provide additional seating for students, room for 450,000 volumes, two electronic classrooms, group study rooms, computer labs, a cyber café, several exhibit galleries, and an enlarged archives area.
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| Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
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Albuquerque, New Mexico Services provided: WorkingBuildings was selected to be one of the two authorized commissioning providers allowed to work at this prestigious institution. WB was also chosen to develop and implement a campus-wide commissioning program, as well as to commission several facility upgrade projects. WorkingBuildings is on an indefinite delivery schedule lasting through 2008. • Strategic weapons - ensuring the stockpile is safe, secure, reliable, and can support the national deterrence policy. • Nonproliferation and materials control - reducing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the threat of nuclear accidents, and the potential for damage to the environment. • Energy and critical infrastructure - enhancing the surety of energy and other critical infrastructures. • Emerging threats - addressing new threats to national security. | |
| SNL Thermal Test Complex
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Albuquerque, New Mexico Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided complete commissioning services including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, refractory, process gasses and fuel systems, and global integration services with an SNL custom process control software management system.
Phase I of the Test Capabilities Revitalization (TCR) includes construction of a new thermal test complex which houses a flame test cell, a thermal testing facility and a cross-flow test fire facility. The complex is designed to support ongoing fire science studies, which allows researchers to understand fire environments for weapons qualification and test full-scale weapon systems.
The testing facility will supplement the sophisticated computer models Sandia already uses to simulate advanced situations.
The thermal test complex will test fires under calm conditions, crosswinds and radiant heating to determine how an object reacts to the heat of fire.
WorkingBuildings was selected to develop and implement a campus-wide commissioning program and provide commissioning services for the entire campus.
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| Southface Eco Office
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Atlanta, Georgia Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing complete total building commissioning services. Commissioned systems include building envelope, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire/life safety, daylighting controls, photovoltaic power systems, graywater system, and rain water collection system. The project is LEED registered.
This 4-story addition to the existing Southface site will more than double the office, meeting, demonstration and program space. The primary goal is to provide the best real-world example of sustainable design. All services for the project are being donated.
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| University of Tennessee Electrical and Computer Engineering Facility
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Knoxville, TN Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing LEED consulting and commissioning services including mechanical, electrical and plumbing.
This state of the art facility will set the standard in design for combining research laboratories, classrooms and administrative offices. The innovative architecture will house an atmosphere to promote creativity including common areas, lounges, glass walls and terraces. The faculty office areas will be a defining characteristic designed to promote the exchange of ideas. The offices will serve both as a study and a small laboratory. The exterior design of the building will complement the existing gothic character of The Hill while incorporating native plant species and stone or concrete benches.
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| USDA
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Various locations nation-wide Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing commissioning services for the USDA/APHIS throughout the United States on an indefinite delivery contract.
USDA is a research leader in everything from human nutrition to new crop technologies that allow us to grow more food and fiber using less water and pesticides. The Animal and Plant Health inspection Service (APHIS) is responsible for protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, administering the Animal Welfare Act, and carrying out wildlife damage management activities. | |
| Utoy Creek Administration/Laboratory Facility
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Atlanta, GA Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for all mechanical systems and served as the LEED™ consultant. This facility has earned LEED certification.
Utoy Creek is a wastewater testing facility. It includes BSL-2 lab space, office space, auditorium, research and teaching lab, and toxicity lab. The new administration/laboratory building of the improved Utoy Creek WRC is a state-of-the-art facility designed to protect the environment, to provide education and public meeting facilities, and to be a safe, comfortable place to work.
Built into the side of a hill overlooking the water treatment plant, the building provides an uninterrupted view of the entire plant for twenty-four-hour-a-day monitoring to ensure plant security and proper operation. The interior laboratory spaces each have skylights so visitors can watch lab work in progress and so co-workers are aware of laboratory activities to help insure safety.
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| Vanderbilt University ABSL-3E Laboratory
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Nashville, TN Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided commissioning services for preparation for NIH/CDC accreditation.
The laboratory features four animal holding rooms, decontamination and sterilizer room, procedure room, and an air lock.
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| Webster Detention Center
|  Augusta, GA
Status: Ongoing
Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing mechanical, electrical and fire protection commissioning services.
The Webster Detention Center is being expanded to take over services previously located at The Law Enforcement Center located in downtown Augusta. The new services handled by the detention center will include Jail Administration, Intake, Booking and the Special Needs Pod. The facility will be expanded from 552 beds to 1,020 beds. The expansion will include expansions of the kitchen, laundry and central plant.
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| Gulf Coast Community College Environmental Education Center
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Panama City, Florida Services provided: WorkingBuildings is providing building commissioning services, including mechanical, electrical and plumbing. The project is LEED registered.
The new facility is an environmental education center with classrooms, auditorium, laboratories, cafeteria and kitchen, and offices. The design includes a water reclamation system, photovoltaics, and geothermal heating/cooling.
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| Kimball International Showroom
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Jasper, IN Services provided: WorkingBuildings provided building commissioning services, including mechanical, electrical and plumbing, and LEED advisor services. This project is LEED-CI Gold.
The Kimball International Showroom renovation highlights the different Kimball business brands: office, home, hospitality and national. The design of the new showroom will tell the story of Kimball's heritage as well as their progressive future.
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