As part of a Campus Master Plan to upgrade the CDC’s Chamblee Campus facilities, the Building 110 and Central Plant project included the demolition of several older buildings and the addition of a new 11-story, 140,000-square-foot research facility and a new Central Utility Plant.

 

According to the CDC, B110 is the first, largest, and most complicated Federal Lab to earn LEED Gold. This building contains BSL2 and BSL3 labs, clean rooms, and other wet lab facilities, and it uses 24 percent less energy than other similar conventional buildings. McKenney’s performed the HVAC and plumbing scopes of work, which included separate galvanized HVAC duct systems for the lab and office spaces, stainless exhaust systems with HEPA filtration, condensate recovery systems, rainwater reuse system piping, acid and sanitary waste systems, medical and cryogenic gas piping, steam and chilled-water systems for comfort cooling and humidification, lab pressurization, and lighting controls.

 

In addition to work within the building itself, McKenney’s installed more than 5,200 feet of underground distribution piping throughout the campus. The new Central Utility Plant’s design required 8,000 tons of chiller capacity, 10 megawatts of emergency diesel generator capacity with 130,000 gallons of underground fuel storage, and more than 80,000 pounds per hour of steam capacity using boilers with ultra low nitrogen oxide (less than 9 ppm) burners. McKenney’s performed the mechanical piping and plumbing work in the CUP, which included setting the equipment, chilled water, steam, condensate, feedwater, compressed air and fuel oil piping, HVAC systems and controls, boiler, power monitoring, and fuel oil system controls. Our team also performed start-up and commissioning services for the plant.