Mechanical and plumbing design for the renovation of the Life Technologies Buildings located in Pleasanton, CA.
- Project 1: 4,400 SF of offices in Building C, 2nd & 3rd floors.
- Project 2: 3,200 SF of Labs on the 2nd floor of Building D.
- Project 3: 4,200 SF of office space on the 1st floor of building D.
- Project 4: 6,500 SF of Biology Lab, and Associated support spaces plus dark room, storage, cold storage, equipment storage and 500 SF of offices on the 1st floor of Building D Rainsborough.
- Project 5: 6,700 SF of Labs on the 3rd floor of building C, 2,700 SF of Lab for the NMR equipment on the 1st floor of building D1.
- Project 6: 2,400 SF of clean room on the 1st floor.
Mechanical systems include new 100% outside air handling unit and exhaust fan tied into the existing systems to add redundancy to the building. Cooling and heating are provided by tying into the existing chilled and hot water distribution system. The systems consist of a VAV for both the office and laboratory spaces with CRC Air Valves serving the various fume hoods. The existing AHU supplies air to the office spaces that are not 100% outside air.
Plumbing systems consist of laboratory gases; nitrogen, helium, argon, compressed air, vacuum, industrial cold water along with a DI water and lab waste systems.
