Mechanical and plumbing design for the new 600-bed, 191,866 SF facility organized into four interconnected building of 4 to 5 stories located at CSU Fullerton. The project includes 600 student beds, RA rooms, 3 staff and graduate student apartments, floor lounges, a central courtyard, a market and cafe, living rooms, laundry rooms, a centralized mailroom, a community resource center (mini police office), a multipurpose room, office space, custodial and landscape warehouses, and janitorial closets. Mechanical systems include high efficiency VAV systems with variable volume airflow for non residential spaces. Campus heating hot water and chilled water provide cooling and heating needs for the building with variable flow pumping for optimal performance. Residential units served by vertical four pipe fan coils with high efficiency EC motors.
Plumbing systems include complete domestic cold and hot water system distribution using a combination of copper mains and PEX branches. Domestic hot water is created using campus hydronic distribution system and a plate and frame heat exchanger. Complete sanitary waste and vent system. Complete storm drain system.
Sustainable features include operable windows, which provide increased indoor air quality and reduce energy usage by reducing mechanical cooling when outside conditions are ideal. Fully modulating economizers for air handlers provides fan assisted free cooling that is optimized by the use of the building energy management system.
The design also incorporates extensive sustainability strategies that result in building performance that exceeds Title-24 energy requirements by 10%.
