Projects

Shah Smith & Associates, Inc. provided the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing design for this 1,418,000 sq. ft., 25-story office building Mid Campus One Building.  The ground floor space facing Bertner is designed for retail and food service tenants, with room for outdoor dining, and a shell and core and partial finish out of several floors, a large commercial kitchen and cafeteria for an occupant load of 4000 people.  The building was built in staggered stages, allowing occupancy of the lower floors as early as possible, and permitted relocation of the highest priority offices to leased space at the earliest date.

The campus police department, command center, and emergency response center were relocated to this facility for 24/7 operation.

Part of the building is 18 stories, and the remaining tower is 25 stories. The building also contains meeting facilities and a conference center.

The typical tenant office layout incorporates an open office concept along the building perimeter for 60 to 70 percent of the office space, with enclosed offices located in the building interior.  The office tower has a 2,700 car attached parking garage.

SSA participated in the finish-out of Floors 1-10, under base building project. And Floors 10-18, later under a different contract.

The building main electrical service consists of a lineup of 5kV, 1200A main-tie-main metal clad switchgear, which serves multiple 4.16kV-480Y/277V double ended substations throughout the building. Each side of the 5kV switchgear is served from two 5MVA, 34.5kV-4.16kV utility transformers connected in parallel. The primary side of each transformer is connected to two 34.5kV utility feeders, one normal and one backup. If the normal feeder is lost, the backup feeder automatically supplies power to the load within 10 seconds.

Emergency power is provided via 3-2mW, 4.16kV diesel generators connected in parallel. A fourth 2mW genset were added as the facility was built out.