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Washington State University Solar PV

LOCATION: Pullman, Washington
CLIENT: Washington State University – Pullman, Washington
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

DESCRIPTION: In 2015, WSU became part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-sponsored project to research, develop and demonstrate technologies needed to create “smart” buildings, campuses and cities to better manage energy usage. Led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and including the University of Washington (UW), the pioneering regional partnership brings the three campuses together to demonstrate transaction-based energy management for the first time, testing the large-scale use of transactive controls involving multiple buildings and devices. The transactive idea combines financial signals and control techniques to shift energy usage in devices, buildings and campuses.

As part of the project, WSU researchers will install solar panels on the Pullman campus for the first time and integrate them into Pullman’s “Smart City’’ test bed and WSU’s microgrid system. The WSU researchers will be showing how the WSU Pullman campus can power critical city infrastructure in the event of a power outage.

The solar array communicates automatically with generators at WSU as well as with a unique, one megawatt energy storage battery in Pullman. The campus system communicates automatically with electric meters at both the PNNL and UW campuses.

The solar array consists of a 33.66 kWdc rooftop mounted system, and a 48.96 kWdc ground mount system, which also includes a 6.1 kWdc student demonstration system. Installed system size was 82.62 kWdc with capacity for an additional 30.6 kWdc.

More information can be found at:

Washington State University – Energy Systems Innovation Center
WSU News

City of Palouse Solar PV

DESCRIPTION: This project was a design/build effort for a 68 kW fixed ground mount solar PV array for the City of Palouse at their well pump site. The system offsets their utility usage by 82,000 kWh saving the City almost $9000 per year.

The system is comprised of 216 315w modules. Power is converted by 9 Itek Energy PVI 6600TL inverters and is connected to the Avista grid at 480 volts, 3 phase. The system offsets their utility usage by 82,000 kWh saving the City almost $9,000 per year.

LOCATION: Palouse, Washington
CLIENT: City of Palouse
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Build (DB)
CONTRACTOR:
Apollo Solutions Group – Spokane, Washington
PCI Renewables – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

East Adams Rural Hospital

DESCRIPTION: The electrical design consists of integrating two (2) projects, spread across several different contracting methods to address multiple code issues faced by the hospital.

The first project was an ESCO project designed to replace the HVAC and lighting systems, and also included replacement of the existing emergency generator and upgrading the existing NEC 517 emergency power systems. The first project was financed through State DES funding sources.

The second project was a design/bid/build project designed through a local architect for the general building renovation and addition, financed through a bond issue.

LOCATION: Ritzville, Washington
CLIENT: East Adams Rural Hospital
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Build (DB) and Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
DESIGN-BUILD CONTRACTOR: Apollo Solutions Group – Spokane, Washington
DESIGN-BID-BUILD CONTRACTOR: Leone and Keeble – Spokane, Washington
ARCHITECT: NAC|Architecture – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

RAI, Inc. Solar PV

DESCRIPTION: PCI designed this 15.48 kW, tilt adjustable ground mounted photovoltaic system. This system provided the capability to compare the production of micro-inverters against both optimized and non-optimized string inverter technologies, as well as 3 types of module construction. System monitoring included inverter and module level production, power quality, and a set of environmental sensors for each module type.

LOCATION: Pullman, Washington
CLIENT: RAI – Relay Application Innovation – Pullman, Washington
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Build (DB)
CONTRACTOR: PCI Renewables – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

OYA Young Women’s Transitional Facility

DESCRIPTION: This project was built in part with state stimulus money from the Go Oregon economic recovery project, and is designed to take the place of the Corvallis House, a 100-year-old building in Corvallis that served as the transitional site for many years.

This project includes design of a new transitional facility adjacent to the existing Oak Creek Correctional Facility. Electrical design included normal and emergency power systems, including lighting, power, fire alarm and data/telephone systems. Low voltage system design included intercom and paging systems, access control systems and interconnects to the existing CCR in the adjacent Oak Creek Correctional Facility.

LOCATION: Albany, Oregon
CLIENT: Oregon Youth Authority
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Beaman Architecture – Portland, Oregon
SERVICES PROVIDED: Security Electronics Design

Okanogan County Courthouse

DESCRIPTION: Design of electrical systems upgrade and remodel to accommodate HVAC system remodel, which included replacement of the existing oil boilers with electric, new fan powered VAV boxes, and air handling units. Design encompassed modifications of the existing electrical switchboard and distribution system, along with customization of the emergency power system. Design also included fire alarm system replacement and the addition of an access control system. The Courthouse is listed on the National Historic Register.

Photo by Joe Mabel. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

LOCATION: Omak, Washington
PROJECT SIZE: 45,000 Square Feet
CLIENT: Okanogan County
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Beaman Architecture – Portland, Oregon
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

California State Prison, Solano

DESCRIPTION: The Project is located at the California State Prison, Solano (SOL), an adult male prison with custody Level II and III inmates, in the City of Vacaville, California. The purpose of the health care facility improvement project at SOL is to remedy deficiencies in the health care components established by the California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) program for Intermediate institutions. SOL has deficiencies in medication distribution, primary care, specialty care, and health records. The Project includes three sub-projects including the construction of new buildings, renovation of existing buildings, and ancillary site improvements to inmate movement including pedestrian sallyports . The following sub projects are intended to remedy the above deficiencies for this campus:

Sub-Project #1- New Complex Facility Clinic.
Sub-Project #2- Central Health Services (CHS) Renovation.
Sub-Project #4- New Medication Distribution Rooms.

LOCATION: Vacaville, California
PROJECT SIZE: 25,339 Square Feet
CLIENT: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT:
Perkins Eastman –
Marina Del Rey, California
CGL Companies –
Sacramento, California
SERVICES PROVIDED: Security Electronics System Design

Yolo County Juvenile Facility

DESCRIPTION: This expansion and retrofit project included the addition of an 11,000 SF multipurpose building on the existing 4-acre site. The new free-standing facility includes a full-size basketball court, family visiting rooms, and two large multipurpose rooms for additional programs. The new facility will include a wireless duress system, digital intercom/paging, an IP CCTV system, and controlled doors from the existing central control location in the Juvenile facility.

In the existing 38,000 square foot, 90-bed Juvenile facility, existing intercom/paging devices, and door control systems were updated and integrated into a new single control system that allows a control officer to monitor both facilities. A new IP based CCTV system and local storage was provided that replaced all existing cameras in the Juvenile Hall. Design documents were provided for the following systems:

Cell and movement door control systems.
CCTV system.
Digital audio systems.
Personal Duress Alarm systems.
Network infrastructure.
UPS Systems.

LOCATION: Woodland, California
FACILITY SIZE: 49,000 Square Feet, 90 Beds
CLIENT: Yolo County
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Lionakis – Sacramento, California
SERVICES PROVIDED: Security Electronics System Design

Photo courtesy of Lionakis

City of Tumwater Police Addition

DESCRIPTION: This project consists of a police department addition and remodel of adjacent space in the existing city hall. This project has improved building safety, expanded holding cells, detectives’ spaces, and officer work space. The design also created space for interviewing, evidence handling, and a secure intake sallyport.

Security electronics system additions include door control, CCTV, intercom and paging, gate control and access control systems for processing, intake and holding areas, interview rooms, and offices.

LOCATION: Tumwater, Washington
CLIENT: Tumwater Police Department
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Architects Rasmussen Triebelhorn – Tacoma, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Security Electronics System Design

California Medical Facility Solano

LOCATION: Vacaville, California
PROJECT SIZE: 27,500 Square Feet
CLIENT: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT:
Perkins Eastman – Marina Del Rey, California
CGL Companies – Sacramento, California
SERVICES PROVIDED: Security Electronics System Design

DESCRIPTION: The California Medical Facility (CMF), an adult male prison with custody Level I, II and III inmates. The purpose of the health care facility improvement project at CMF is to remedy deficiencies in the health care components established by the California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) program for Intermediate institutions. CMF has deficiencies in medication distribution, primary care, specialty care, health records, pharmacy, and health care administration. The Project includes six sub projects including the construction of new buildings, renovation of existing buildings, infrastructure, and ancillary improvements. The following sub projects are intended to remedy the above deficiencies for this campus:

Sub Project # 1- New Central Health Services Specialty Clinic
Sub Project # 2- New Stand-by Emergency Room (Licensed Building)
Sub Project # 4- Medication Distribution Room
Sub Project # 5- B-Wing Renovation
Sub Project # 6- X-Wing Renovation – Health Records
Sub Project # 7- Unit IV Renovation – Medication Distribution Rooms
Sub Project # 8- Infrastructure Upgrade

LEED Silver

Wenatchee Federal Courthouse

DESCRIPTION: Project includes design of a fire alarm system replacement within an existing federal courthouse and postal building. Additional requirements included providing interface and auxiliary voice command center locations within the US Marshal’s office to allow for supplemental notification and control during emergency situations.

LOCATION: Wenatchee, Washington
CLIENT: General Services Administration – Spokane, Washington
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Bernardo Wills Architects – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

Pangborn Airport Terminal Expansion

DESCRIPTION: This project included design of electrical systems upgrades for the existing terminal expansion. Areas included ticketing counters and baggage drop-off, baggage claim areas, departure screening, and the departure lounge areas. Electrical design included normal and emergency power, lighting, fire alarm, data/telephone, access control and CCTV systems.

LOCATION: East Wenatchee, Washington
CLIENT: Pangborn Memorial Airport – East Wenatchee, Washington
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
CONTRACTOR: DOH Architects – Wenatchee, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

DeWitt Nelson Conversion Annex

DESCRIPTION: The DeWitt Nelson Complex Annex consists of 14 buildings originally built in 1967 to be used as a youth correctional facility. This project converts the usage to house a significant portion of the Specialized General Population (SGP) and the Enhanced Outpatient Program (EOP) of the state prison population; renovates and alters existing facilities for the re-purposed mission; adds new facilities including a new perimeter system with towers, a lethal fence, and vehicle sallyport; and provides for a common low voltage security electronic, fire alarm, IT/data, and maintenance management infrastructure as the adjacent California Health Care Facility, a mental and medical health prison.

The project includes developing bridging and criteria documents, plans, and system layout for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to delineate technologies to be used in a new 1,133 bed medical and mental health prison on the existing Stockton prison campus. LEED Silver

LOCATION: Stockton, California
FACILITY SIZE: 280,000 Square Feet, 1,133 Beds
CLIENT: – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
DELIVERY METHOD: – Design-Build (DB)
ARCHITECT:
Lee, Burkhart, Liu, Inc. – Marina Del Rey, California
CGL Companies – Sacramento, California
Kitchell CEM – Sacramento, California
SERVICES PROVIDED: Security Electronics System Design

Chehalis Public Safety Facility

DESCRIPTION: This project, for the Confederated Tribe of the Chehalis, consisted of electrical and security electronics design of new public safety facility with courtroom, police station, evidence storage, intake, booking, jail and control room. Electrical system design included normal and emergency power systems, lighting and branch circuit wiring, and interface to site utilities. Security electronics system design included PLC based door controls, hardwire graphic panels, intercom and paging, access control, duress alarm, CCTV, and UPS systems.

LOCATION: Chehalis, Washington
CLIENT: Confederated Tribe of Chehalis – Chehalis, Washington
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Buffalo Design – Seattle, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical and Security Electronics Design

Washington Corrections Center for Women

DESCRIPTION: The goals of this project were threefold: to integrate the existing campus CCTV system into a single unified network architecture; to replace all cameras on separate, discrete DVR systems and integrate these cameras into the campus networked system; and to provide new cameras as needed for safety, security and PRIA considerations. Some of the existing cameras were ONVIF compliant and consequently could be integrated with the new networked campus system. Approximately 325 cameras were modified, replaced, or added to the campus system. In addition to CCTV system replacement, hardwired control panels at Central Control were replaced with touchscreens to provide reliable integration and call-up of the networked camera system. UPS systems were also replaced due both to battery failure and system age.

LOCATION: Gig Harbor, WA
FACILITY SIZE: 342,000 Square Feet, 25 Buildings
CLIENT: Washington State Department of Corrections
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical and Security Electronics Design

Sunnyside Jail Security Electronics Replacement

Millwood Fire Station

DESCRIPTION: Electrical Systems design including new service entrance switchgear and emergency power system utilizing 15kW diesel back-up generator for all life-safety systems. Special System design includes fire alarm, communications, and customized control systems for firefighter response applications.

LOCATION: Millwood, Washington
FACILITY SIZE:
CLIENT: Spokane Fire District
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Denny Christenson & Associates
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

Spokane County Fire District 8, Station 81

DESCRIPTION: Electrical Systems design including new service entrance switchgear and emergency power system utilizing 15kW diesel back-up generator for all life-safety systems. Special System design includes fire alarm, communications, and customized control systems for firefighter response applications.

LOCATION: Spokane, Washington
FACILITY SIZE: 11,000 sf
CLIENT: Spokane County Fire District
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Denny Christenson & Associates
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical Engineering Design

Spokane County Fire District 9, Station 94

DESCRIPTION: Electrical Systems design of a 10,000 sf fire station including new service entrance switchgear and emergency power system utilizing on-site diesel back-up generator for all life-safety systems. Special System design includes fire alarm, communications, and customized control systems for firefighter response applications.

LOCATION: Spokane, Washington
FACILITY SIZE: 10,000 sf
CLIENT: Spokane County Fire Department
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: Denny Christenson & Associates
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical Systems Design

Grande Ronde Hospital

DESCRIPTION: Grande Ronde Hospital is a not-for-profit, 25-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH). In addition to the Hospital and its broad range of diagnostic, surgical and therapeutic outpatient services, the main facility also houses the Regional Hematology and Oncology Clinic, the Family Birthing Center, the Rehabilitation Therapy Department and Gym, and the Home Care Services Department which includes Home Health Services and Hospice Care. Grande Ronde Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission and is a member of the American Small Hospital Association.

This project relocates the existing chiller plant to a centralized location, freeing up valuable space for the OR expansion. Additionally, this project cleans up various issues with the site primary distribution systems and provided a preliminary emergency power study to determine the feasibility of co-locating the emergency power generator plant with the chiller plant.

LOCATION: La Grande, Oregon
CLIENT: Grande Ronde Hospital
DELIVERY METHOD: Energy Services Performance Contracting (ESCP)
ENERGY SERVICES PERFORMANCE CONTRACTOR: Johnson Controls – Spokane, Washington
ARCHITECT: NAC|Architecture – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

WOW Logistics Distribution Center

DESCRIPTION: The WOW-Jerome, Idaho warehouse, located just 100 miles southeast of Boise, Idaho is an ASI Superior Rated food grade distribution center that began operations with 232,650 square feet and has grown with an expansion to 307,650 square feet. The WOW-Jerome DC is a multi-temperature facility with ambient (dry) and refrigerated (cooler) warehousing storage areas, as well as a USDA approved cheese grading room. The refrigerated area is designed for variable temperatures ranging from 40 degrees to 53 degrees. This Jerome, ID public warehouse offers easy access to Interstate 84 and is rail served by the UP (Union Pacific) Railroad. The WOW-Jerome Distribution Center is a featured Cheese Financing Program facility.

The electrical design included a 3000 amp utility service entrance, normal power distribution, lighting, and lighting control.

LOCATION: Jerome, Idaho
FACILITY SIZE: 307,650 Square Feet
CLIENT: WOW Logistics
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Build (DB)
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Power City Electric – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

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