Gannett Fleming is providing fundamental building systems commissioning services for the design of two new buildings, with more than 50,000 square feet of space, on the campus of a community college. Our services were performed in accordance with the USGBC’s LEED rating system. The Health Education Pavilion is a two-story, steel-framed laboratory, and classroom building with a brick-veneer exterior wall system. The building is currently a LEED-registered project and is being designed as a high-performance green building, aiming for “gold-level” LEED certification. The structure will include a photovoltaic solar collection system and other energy-saving design features. The heating and cooling system is in an adjacent building with sufficient capacity to serve this building.

The Early Childhood Development and Day Care Center is a single-story structure, consisting of a slab on grade, a truss roof system, and a steel stud bearing wall with brick veneer and EIFS exterior. The building will also include a photovoltaic solar collection system and other energy-saving design features. The heating and cooling system is being designed as an on-site, shallow-well geothermal system. A commissioning plan and commissioning procedures were developed for acceptance testing of HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems, including fire alarms and power systems.

Early Childhood Development and Day Care Center

Health Education Pavilion

 

Production Incentive Auctions to Support Large-Scale Projects in California and Pennsylvania

This case summarizes California's production incentive program and the difficulties it has faced, and then focuses on how Pennsylvania has attempted to innovate on California's approach to bring new wind capacity on line quickly and prior to the then-expected expiration of the federal production tax credit (PTC) for wind power at the end of 2001.

 

 

Use of Low-Interest, Subordinated Debt to Finance a Wind Project in Pennsylvania

The innovative offering of low-cost debt described in this case marks a significant departure from standard grant-based project support.

 

 

Utility Grid-Direct Photovoltaic System: Exelon-Conergy Renewable Energy Center

The Exelon project is an example of how state government, public utilities and private investors are supporting the large scale development of clean energy in the United States, in a manner that has been very successful in Europe.