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Building Statistics

Building Statistics Part One

Building Name: Auburn University Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center

Location: Auburn University, Alabama

Address: 152 Wilmore Drive Auburn University AL 36849

Occupant Name: Students/Faculty of Auburn

Occupancy Type: Lab, Class, and Office

Area: 141,750 SF

Number of Stories: Ground, Two, Three, Penthouse South Four Floors Above Grade

Owner:

Auburn University Facilities Management

1161 West Samford Avenue

Auburn, Alabama 36849-5171

334.844.4810

www.auburn.edu/administration/facilities

Architect/Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Life Safety, and Fire Protection Engineering:

SmithgroupJJR

1700 New York Avenue NW Suite 100

Washington D.C. 20006

202.842.2100

www.smithgroupjjr.com

Structural Engineering:

Stevens & Wilkinson

100 Peachtree Street NE, STE. 2500

Atlanta, Georgia 30303

404.522.8888

www.Wilkinson.com

Civil Engineering:

Foresite Group

2128 Moores Mill Road Suite C

Auburn Alabama 36830

334.887.6064

www.FG-INC.net

Landscape Architect

Holcombe Norton Partners Inc.

1914 28th Ave S

Birmingham AL 35209

205.870.9936

www.HNPSITEPLAN.com

Dates of Construction:

Issued for BID/Permit 16 March 2017

Construction Begins September 1 2017

Construction Ends April 1 2019

Building Opens April 8 2019

Actual Cost: 36 Million Dollars Overall Building Cost

Project Delivery Method: Design-Bid-Build

Architecture:

This building will be a three-story building, consisting of classrooms, study areas, laboratory space, faculty offices, and meeting rooms. This building will connect with another university building, introducing the need to create a cohesive architecture so as not to draw unnecessary attention. The majority of the campus has a brick exterior, with white concrete framed glass windows. This building will be no different, except for a glass atrium and columns at the Southern entrance, shown by the picture to the right.

Major National Codes:

IBC 2015 International Building Code

IEBC 2015 International Existing Building Code

IECC 2015 International Energy Conservation Code

IFC 2015 International Fire Code

IMC 2015 International Mechanical Code

IPC 2015 2015 International Plumbing Code

NFPA 10 2013 Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers

NFPA 13 2013 Installation of Sprinkler Systems

NFPA 14 2013 Standard for the installation of Standpipe and Hose system

NFPA 70 2014 National Electric Code

NFPA 72 2013 National Fire Alarm and Signal Code

ADA 2010 ADA Standards for accessible design by the U.S. department of Justice

Auburn Standards for accessible design and construction standards

ASME 2010 Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators

Zoning:

Ground floor will be mostly study areas, storage rooms, and a manufacturing/machine shop, along with the atrium at the center. The first floor will introduce the majority of office spaces and computer labs for mainly faculty use. The second floor hosts the classroom areas and event spaces for larger events on campus. The third and final floor (mechanical penthouse, will have mechanical equipment, including 3 AHU, and louvers to the outside.

Historical Requirements:

No historical requirements except to keep the building with the same type of architecture as the surrounding buildings

Building Enclosure

Building Facades:

The building is made up of primarily brick façade, following the architecture of the rest of the campus. This building does vary from the rest of the campus by utilizing a large multistory atrium made of 1” Solarban glass and pillars. The rooving is going to be made of a 5/12 sloped shingles to fit in with surrounding buildings.

Sustainability Features:

This building is not going for any type of LEED certification, but is looking at energy efficient design for the entirety of the project per company standards. Due to the size of the building, there is a major need to recover as much energy from the conditioned spaces as possible. Therefore, 3 energy recovery units are placed in the mechanical penthouse, one for each air handling unit. In addition to that, there was a also a decision to use energy efficient glass on the exterior to make sure the building load is as small as possible, with an attempt to save on energy costs.

Glass windows (1” insulated PPG Solarban 90 Starphire + Clear) Main (others used, but infrequently)

Brick walls, air barrier, rigid insulation, 8” metal stud, 5/8” Gysum wall board

Roofing: Shingled Roof (sloped 5/12), underlayment for shingles, glass-mat gypsum sheeting, air barrier, two layers of insulation.

Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of William Manning. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.

Construction:

The construction of the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center I currently underway, beginning on September 1, 2017. Because there is another renovation being completed concurrently in close proximity, the site management could be cause for concern. What makes it more congested is that there will be a connecting green space in-between the two engineering buildings. At a total of 141,750 square feet and 36 million dollars, the total cost is about 254 $/square foot.

Electrical:

A pad-mounted transformer is placed outside the building in the utility yard to feed the main distribution panel (MDP) of the building. The 3000A, 480/277V MDP then feeds 18 transformers to step down the power to various amounts throughout the building. The interesting side of the electrical system is that every feeder coming out of the MDP is metered and calculating the individual use of each part of the building.

An exterior generator, also in the utility yard, can provide emergency power to the building if the main source goes down. A 250 KW natural gas generator can provide power to a 600A, 480/277V generator main distribution panel. This will be enough to power the standby lighting, life safety, and optional standby, as well as keep the fire pump operational in case of emergency. In the time between the power outage and the time for the generator to come to full load, there is also a charged battery cabinet to use for uninterruptible power supply devices.

Lighting:

The use of a large curtain wall on the northern part of the building is the main source of light for the open atrium entrance. Most lighting fixtures within the space are a 277V LED sources with a 0-10V dimming ballast. Most rooms are also utilizing a passive/infrared vacancy or occupancy sensor to detect the movement of people within the space. The South facing windows also have photo cells mounted on the interior to see how much natural light is coming into the space and dims the lights to account for the natural ambient light.

Mechanical:

The mechanical system is in charge of conditioning 141,750 square feet of space within the Brown-Kopel Engineering student Achievement Center. The mechanical system air side is made up from three Air Handling Units (AHU) in the Penthouse totaling a minimum of 26,375 CFM of outdoor air. Each AHU’s also has a Trane American Standard total Energy Recovery Unit (ERU) attached to it, reducing the amount of energy needed to condition the air. The air that is brought into the space must go through a 2” MERV-8 and 4” MERV-13 filter.

The hydronic side of the mechanical system stems from two separate heating hot water (HHW) and cooled water (CHW) plants. The CHW plant is located on the same plot of land that is currently being renovated next door. It has a 4,500 ton capacity that supplies 40 degree chilled water to the building. The HHW comes from a 2,400 boiler horse power plant that supplies 200 degree water to the buildings piping. Also on the hydronic side is a plate and frame heat exchanger, with a 3174 MBH capacity utilizing 460 square feet of surface heating.

Other means of heating are also available, including the electric and hydronic unit heaters located mainly in the mechanical rooms, stairs, and storage areas.

Additional Engineering Systems

Primary Engineering Systems

Fire Protection:

An automatic sprinkler system will be installed within the building, designed to NFPA 13, 14, 20, 70, and 74. Supplying the water to each floor will be a 500GPM electrically driven horizontal split case centrifugal fire pump on level one. Each stairwell will have one two and a half inch fire department hose connection for each floor. Stairwell 5 on the Western side of the building will be the only stairwell to have the six inch riser dedicated to supplying water to the sprinkler system. The sprinklers are to be flush with the ceiling and coordinated with the architecture to blend the two designs together.

Transportation:

As many students and faculty members will be using the main staircase in the atrium, there will be other ways of moving from floor to floor. There are four other stairwells located in the four corners of the building (one that goes from basement to penthouse, three that go from basement to second floor). There is also an elevator located in the eastern side of the building that connects all floors from the basement to the second floor.

Telecommunications:

Due to the occupancy of offices and study areas, there is a fair sized telecommunications network within the building. Every meeting room has a telecommunication and voice combination outlet. Along with this, every office will have at least one port on the wall, and sometimes up to two. All meeting rooms and study rooms will also have a separate cable dedicated for the use a television that will be provided in each room by the University. Both EMT and RMT cables are considered acceptable for construction.

Structural:

Starting with the base, the foundation is made of spread footings with #4 rebar at 18” O.C. for reinforcement up to a concrete slab at level one plinth floor. At a 3’x3’ to 14’x14’ plan area, and 1.5 to 3 feet deep, the footings are designed to withstand 4500 psi load after the 28 day curing period. Concrete columns are the main support for the buildings’ structure, except for the steel columns supporting the curtain wall on the northern section of the first and second floors and the penthouse roof. The 6” one way slabs are on top of typical 24”x24” or 28”x28” beams. The slab on grade as well as all elevated cast-in-place slabs are rated at 4000 psi. Long span roof joists line the penthouse roof with W14x22 and W18x35 at 5’-0” O.C. joists.

Building Statistics

Building Enclosure

Additional Engineering Systems

Primary Engineering Systems

William H Manning | Mechanical Option

Advisor: Dr. James Freihaut

Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center

Auburn, Alabama