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Client: U.S. Geological Survey
Locations: Reston, VA
Size: 3,535 SF
The general scope of work was to provide MEP engineering and lighting design services for the renovations of (10) existing office spaces and rooms into a 1,760 sf executive conference room with a 675 sf breakout area. The executive conference room has the ability to divide into two smaller conference rooms with a movable partition with adaptable lighting and lighting control system. The breakout area has a full pantry style kitchen, a video conference huddle area, and various seating options for breakout meetings. In addition, modifications to the 1,100 sf Associate Director Suite were completed to meet the current needs of the users.
In addition to the MEP engineering, CFR also was the lighting designer for this project. CFR designed the lighting to create a feel of ripples in water on a rainy day with the use of varying diameter LED ring lights mounted at various mounting heights throughout the break out area. Within the conference center suite, narrow profile LED linear lights run along the ceiling and cascade down the wall like waterfalls to provide way finding of the doors to the break out area. CFR designed the lighting controls such that they were both integrated with the AV system as well as able to adapt with the movable partition wall that can sub-divide the conference center from one large area to two smaller meeting rooms.
Client: LITTLE
Location: Adelphi, MD
Size: 23,000 SF
The general scope of work was to provide MEP engineering and lighting design services for the “Office of the Future,” approximately 23,000 SF, located on the first floor of the UMUC Administration Building. CFR provided design for latest energy monitoring systems for all MEP systems. CFR also provided lighting design services and selection of lighting fixtures.
The lighting design goal for this project was to design a modern open collaborative office space that created a fun and adaptive environment for the ever-changing office space. The architectural and lighting intent was to create a very open office environment with a mix of cloud ceilings and no ceiling areas. Orderly random lines of light were created with varying lengths of pendant or recessed linear lights depending on the ceiling conditions. One major challenge was the fact that most of the space did not see daylight due to limited window exposure. To provide occupants with a sense of daylight, the back walls of all offices without windows were wall washed with a perimeter linear light fixture. To also bring the outside in, two garden walls and a garden “Picnic-Break” room were created in the interior of the office space. These garden areas were lit with a combination of white LED grow lamps as well as tunable LED white lights that were programmed to automatically match the color temperature of daylight that naturally takes place during the day.
Client: Iron Horse Architects
Location: Bethesda, MD
Size: 4,000 SF
This project included mechanical and electrical engineering design services and construction administration services for the renovation of approximately 4,000 SF of space. Renovations included reconfiguration of the existing spaces to include new offices, a new storage room with break area, and new conference rooms. CFR also provided the lighting design and fixture selection for the project. CFR worked closely with the architect and NCI's in house interior design group to come up with a modern and clean lighting design.
Client: The University of Maryland
Location: College Park, MD
Size: 130,000 SF
CFR provided computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling services in order to assist in trouble shooting an AHU operational problem. There was a current issue with the freeze-stats on two 100% OA AHU’s with a steam face and bypass pre-heat coil. CFR modeled baffle plates that force the bypass air to mix with the heated air passing over the steam heating elements so as to provide a better mixed condition. Additional chilled water was being utilized unnecessarily because the steam PHC LAT set point needs to remain at 80 degree F to avoid the freeze-stat tripping off the AHU
Client: The National Institute of Standards and Technology
Location: Gaithersburg, MD
Size: 130,000 SF
This project includes providing project management, supervision, labor, materials, supplies, and equipment, and shall plan, schedule, coordinate, and assure effective performance of all services for the following projects; Installation of a 7.9 MW gas turbine combined heat and power plant as an addition to the Central Plant in Building 302; and replacement of two (2) 3,000 ton chillers with two (2) 3,500 ton high efficient chillers in the Central Plant in Building 302. The project has been broken into three (3) phases; Phase I includes initial MDE controls and civil and site utilities; Phase II includes full construction services; and Phase III includes commissioning, acceptance, and project closeout.
CFR is the prime consultant on this project providing project management and construction management services. This project is also designed along with other sub-consultants including; technical, construction and commissioning oversight of the ESPC contractor’s installation team.
Construction Value: $45,000,000+
Client: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Location: Ashburn, VA
Size: 130 SF
This project included a CFD/mechanical engineering analysis of displacement ventilation for a new microscope room. A CFD/Mechanical engineering analysis is being provided to compare the following displacement ventilation scenarios in each model; high supply air with high return air, high supply air with low return air, and low supply air with high return air to determine which is best to achieve a uniform airflow and temperature gradient throughout the space.
Client: The Food and Drug Administration
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Size: 1,450 SF
This project included lighting improvements for a confidential government agency. The researchers of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NM) Research Lab needed a lighting system that would meet the needs for high light levels while also being able to work within the highly magnetic fields inherent to the lab.The lab uses some of the largest magnets in the world to conduct their research, which means the light fixtures and all other materials within the lab must be non-ferrous and also work within the highly magnetic fields. The lighting design was constrained to utilizing 2x2 light fixtures at the pre-determined locations within the room, such that the existing specially designed non-ferrous ceiling panels could be re-used for this project. With this design constraint and the fact that the ceiling itself was 25 feet above the finished floor added to the challenges for achieving the user’s goal of an average of 60 FC on the work plane of the entire lab with a minimum uniformity ratio of 2:1.
Working closely with a manufacturer, semi-custom 2x2 high-output LED light fixtures were developed such that they worked within the highly magnetic environment but also provided a maintained average light level of 65 FC and less than a 2:1 uniformity ratio. Due to the complexity of maintaining the lights in the ceiling and lift interference with the lab equipment and magnetic fields, the LED drivers were remotely mounted in a part of the lab that would allow them to be easily maintained outside of the efforts of the magnets. The lights were connected to 0-10V dimmer switches and zoned into three separate zones for ultimate user control within the lab. The project met all the user’s expectations for quality light, control and budget.
*2016 IES DC Candela Award Winner & IES Illumination Award of Merit
Client: The Department of Veterans Affairs
Locations: Baltimore, MD and Ft. Meade, MD
Size: 736,134 SF
Project includes electrical system studies for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) at three (3) locations; VA Medical Center, Loch Raven VA Outpatient Clinic, and Ft. Meade CA CBOC. CFR is currently providing complete short circuit, coordination and arc flash study including voltage drop calculations on the entire electrical system/s (both normal and emergency) at each VAMC site listed above. It shall begin at the incoming utility electrical service (for the normal system) and at the emergency generators (for the emergency system) and continue through to each branch circuit panelboard, motor control center or motor control panel in each building. The total square footage of medical centers to be studied is approximately 736,134 SF.
Client: DNC Architects, Inc.
Location: Gaithersburg, MD
Size: 14,600 SF
Project included MEP engineering design services for the conversion of the existing two–story, historic veterinary clinic into a school. Renovations to the approximately 14,600 SF of total space includes 10,500 SF of space on the first floor to be converted into five (5) middle school classrooms, four (4) pre-school classrooms, a multi-purpose room, a kitchen with sink, a reception area, two (2) ADA staff restrooms, two (2) ADA student restrooms, a director’s office, a staff work room, a sick student room, and three (3) storage rooms. The second floor consists of 4,100 SF of warm-lit shell space.
In addition to the MEP engineering services, CFR also provided lighting design services for interior and exterior of the historic building as well as exterior site lighting. Since the building is considered historic, careful lighting decisions had to be considered on how to apply the light while maintaining the aesthetics of the original building. To assist in gaining approval by the local historic preservation board; light massing renderings (pictured above), photorealistic lighting renderings, and conceptual drawings were created.
Client: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Location: Ashburn, VA
Size: 144,000 SF
CFR provided MEP engineering design and construction administration services using BIM 360 for the new Apartment Building C Complex at the HHMI Janelia Campus in Ashburn, VA. This apartment building houses biomedical researchers and scientists from around the world and is composed of five (5) floors of (101) one- and two-bedroom apartment units; a ground floor lobby; lounge; unisex bathrooms; and open‐air parking. The ground floor also houses the mechanical equipment room, main electrical room, water and fire pump rooms. On the top floor, a common area and patio occupies ~3,000 SF. CFR has designed a 4-pipe hydronic energy recovery centralized mechanical system for the building and a centralized domestic hot water system generated from high efficiency, condensing, gas-fired water heaters. A geothermal well system was designed & installed, which acts as a heat source/sink. Electrical design included new residential and emergency power, as well as interior and exterior lighting, data and coordination with the owner’s IT, and low voltage systems.
*Our project team, led by WDG Architecture received the Multi-Family Residential Award of Excellence from NAIOP Northern Virginia.
