Facilities and Site Assessment
Overview CH2M HILL is an international design firm focused on facilities for science and technology. We are architects, engineers, and technologists, delivering high-performance building projects to companies, universities, and governments around the globe and providing critical expertise for advanced technology industries. In addition to offices in North America, our offices in London, Dublin, Cork, and Glasgow serve Europe, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Our offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Taipei, Singapore, and Tokyo serve Asia and the Pacific Rim. CH2M HILL is an employee-owned firm and a world leader in full-service engineering, construction, and operations. We provide services for three primary markets: science and technology, critical environments, and advanced planning.
Clemson University
Kunshan Master Plan
Advancing Education, Research, and Development As specialists in science and technology-related planning and design, CH2M HILL serves a broad range of higher education, private, and government clients. Facility assessment and advanced master planning are among our specialized services. In recent years, CH2M HILL has assessed more than 5,000,000 square feet of space for education campuses and public institutions, in addition to over 3,000,000 square feet of lab space for teaching and research. CH2M HILL’s commitment to sustainable, high-performance architecture delivers design excellence and technical quality in buildings and spaces that inspire innovation and enhance learning. This market overview explains our process, tools, and expertise in providing facility and site assessments. Also included is a detailed case study of the University of Pittsburgh, where we helped develop a 12-year plan that involved significant upgrades to several existing facilities and more than $1 billion in capital improvements. Kunming Master Plan
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Common Sense Expansion: Renovate, Reuse When faced with the need to expand, universities and high-tech manufacturers often encounter similar challenges. A limited availability of sites, demolition in preparation for new buildings, and the costs of land acquisition, planning, and permitting may prove to be costly. These factors underscore the merits of building renovation, or adaptive reuse, whose costs are generally less than a replacement facility. Benefits: • • • • • •
Increased funds available for capital improvements Ability to meet new building codes (seismic analysis, etc.) Preservation of rich cultural and historical resources Robust construction via collective wisdom and judgement Environmental stewardship Avoiding increased campus congestion
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Holistic, Collaborative Design Our expertise in providing best-in-class research facilities reaches back several years and crosses many research fields in several high-technology industries. With our diverse team of specialists, you earn the best return on your project utilizing our expertise. Across the world, our assessment team has analyzed existing facilities for research laboratories, offices, and operations in chemistry, biology, nanotechnology, microelectronics, and wafer fabrication. Unlike a new facility, renovation requires both a facility assessment and a needs assessment. Holistic assessment is critical. We offer a process in which all disciplines contribute comments to an interactive database, which you review at a later stage. Because each building involves many variables, each discipline’s input may change another’s. In this way, assessment and design inform one another. To specifically address your needs, our process is divided in three overlapping phases: 1) Needs Assessment; 2) Facilities Assessment; and 3) Gap Analysis.
University of Nebraska
State of Oregon
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Project Approach: An Interactive Process First, we assess existing building systems and space utilization. Second, we seek to discover opportunities for improved performance and efficiency within existing buildings and research programs. Third, we integrate findings from the previous steps into a single vision, helping you define long-term planning goals. Our approach ensures needs, opportunities, and goals inform each other.
Needs Assessments Clients alter or expand facilities in response to changing needs and desires. Needs assessments (or programming) gather information, goals, and values in order to clearly define the problem. Afterward, we organize data in a way that allows you to quantify facility needs and develop schedules and budgets. Needs assessments are a dynamic, interactive process that may take a couple of days or several weeks, depending on project complexity or corporate culture. Programming time is reduced through the use of group brainstorming and collaboration.
Building System Assessments and Spatial Assessments Integrating Sustainability Sustainable design concepts inform the planning process These opportunities include: Improving material handling, distribution, and waste removal Sustainable energy and utility distribution Security, wayfinding, and parking on a campus-wide level
System assessments include a holistic analysis of building systems and elements, from systems to envelop design to furnishings. Defined by active listening and focused observation, we engage your stakeholders, building users, facility staff, and campus and financial planners in evaluting your facilities. Walkthroughs of the building(s) , interviews with facility staff, and reviews of record drawings and maintenance logs are performed. We strive to improve building performance. Spatial assessments address workflow configurations based on relationships between equipment, systems, and people. We also consider the impact of construction on surrounding infrastructure and on specific buildings whose access is affected by construction equipment.
Gap Analysis Combining data gathered from the needs assessment with the facilities assessment, a gap analysis distills the key findings of the systems analysis and spatial analysis. With your facility’s specific profile and your institutional goals, we are able to confidently provide holistic analysis aligned with your current and future needs.
Conceptual and Spatial Synthesis After we assess your building’s needs, we begin to develop potential solutions based on a gap analysis. The purpose is to identify opportunities and formulate ways to maximize your existing facility’s potential. The critical tools used in this process are brainstorming and rapid prototyping. With these tools and your engagement, we generate several solutions quickly. These solutions helps us form a comprehensive understanding of issues and develop thoroughly tested results.
Visioning and Master Planning Building on previous efforts, we develop concepts for the campus as a whole. Future space requirements and research program goals are defined. Design parameters for the building, including conceptual planning configurations, are reviewed. The current context is analyzed, including site density, impact on traffic, parking availability, and pedestrian access. Conceptual 3D massing studies assess scale, campus entry, and formal/informal exterior space. Preliminary estimates provide information to compare and contrast concepts throughout the design process. ©2013 CH2M HILL Confidential and Proprietary
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Advanced Assessment and Design: The Right Tools
Benefits of 3D Modeling
We understand procurement, capital improvements, and infrastructure upgrades often require multiple stakeholders’ approval and may evolve over time. Our robust tools help you make informed, prudent financial decisions and plan for phased, flexible expansion.
Advanced skills in 3D computer-aided modeling and animation: Increase efficiency
3D Modeling and Animation Modeling and animation tools are integral to our design process. They assist in communicating our design intent and help our team explore a greater number of iterations during design development. Furthermore, better design coordination and early constructability analysis improves the quality and performance of the building. Adding 4D modeling, with timebased elements such as complex ventilation and photometric lighting evaluations are also available.
Database Design Tool Feedback from multiple disciplines—architects, engineers, technologists and planners—is organized by discipline, system, and location. Renovation may be broken down by cost per square foot or per specific project. Our teams work closely with you to make decisions about priority and phasing while accounting for impacts to the budget, to ongoing site operations and to the strategic value of that particular building asset as it relates to the larger vision. Our database application offers a web-based interface that doesn’t require special software and offers printed reports in multiple versions, from executive summaries to thousand-page documents with line-by-line cost information.
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Lower costs Reduce risk
Cost Estimating Comments in the database can be assigned a cost based on current, local practices and direct university construction experience, providing up-todate comparisons. Inflation quantifiers are linked to priority levels and intended phasing increments to get an accurate long-term cost overview. With this feature, you may quickly compare different concepts based on the relative costs to repair, renew, or replace a particular building asset.
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Location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Case Study: Assessment, Planning, Design, and Adaptive Reuse
Project Statistics Area: 2,000,000+ SF Completion: 2010
Services Provided Cross-disciplinary Assessment Strategic Planning Future Space Needs Capital Improvements New Construction Deferred Maintenance Facility Management Cost Estimates
CH2M HILL performed a facility assessment and developed architectural and engineering designs to upgrade more than 20 buildings at the University of Pittsburgh. All existing systems were assessed, including cost estimates and phasing concepts, for campus buildings from 30 to 100 years old. Our tailored design solutions maintained and enhanced the historic character of the buildings and modernized technical systems and spatial organization. We also provided services for the University of Pittsburgh beyond the initial assessment and master plan.
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University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
Salk Hall
For the renewal of this 1960-era facility, we provided concepts for building systems upgrades, spatial reorganization, order of magnitude cost estimates, and a phasing plan for implementation. Our spatial reorganization proposed moving offices and classrooms into Crabtree Hall and creating dedicated storage facilities in the basement levels of Parran Hall. Labs were then consolidated in Parran Hall’s upper levels. Due to tight floor-to-floor heights and limited shaft areas, the solution ran new mechanical services outside the building and tapped into them incrementally as floors were renovated.
We studied ways to upgrade infrastructure and air distribution systems, as well as alternatives for providing additional wet labs. Schemes were developed that included offices on the higher floors, labs on intermediate levels, and classrooms and clinics at street level. When the client determined the need for additional classroom and office space, we developed an economical solution: building a new 80,000 SF wet lab building with 15-foot floor-to-floor heights, and reorganizing the existing buildings to include the additional offices and classrooms. The addition connects to the existing building through a new three-story entrance lobby, providing better access from the upper campus dormitories and giving the complex a much-needed front door. It is configured to accommodate a future research building on one of the last available sites on the urban campus.
Mid-Campus Complex We assessed existing buildings, determined their potential for renewal and provided design concepts and a phased plan of action. The University wanted to increase usable lab area without reducing classroom or office space and upgrade building infrastructure performance and functionality. The two most historically significant structures (Thaw and Allen) were proposed to house offices and classrooms, minimizing the impact to historic exterior and interior spaces. The need for intense oncethrough air system upgrades focused on less culturally significant structures, most suited to lab use. Overall cost was reduced and usable lab space increased by 27,000 SF. We provided analysis and design for spatial reorganization and system upgrades, as well as order of magnitude cost estimates for comparison.
Life Science Complex For renewal and upgrade of the 333,000 SF Life Science Complex, the goal was to reduce overall cost and provide more flexible labs within the footprint. Innovative strategies, such as developing different zones for devoted labs and offi ces, reduced costs. New strategies were developed within the context of the original plan, maximizing previous projects and investments by the University. Office zones were designed with re-circulating air systems that reduced first costs and lifecycle costs. Š2013 CH2M HILL Confidential and Proprietary
Benedum Hall CH2M HILL looked for synergistic ways to reorganize the distribution of spaces and functions and upgrade the infrastructure to increase usable lab space. The solution identified slots on the exterior that can be used for building services, allowing infrastructure upgrade and new air handling to be provided while existing systems served occupied space. Interior functions were re-stacked, placing classrooms on lower and below-grade floors. This reduced vertical circulation demand and provided space for labs in the tower that incorporate daylight and exterior views. The solution creates an efficient use of space, better security for research, and a cost effective mechanical system that can be zoned for recirculated or once-through air. The concept plans for a future two-story atrium over the existing plaza to provide classroom expansion, social space, and greater connectivity between the new consolidated classroom level. IAT070513121744PDX
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About CH2M HILL Employee-owned CH2M HILL is a global leader in full-service consulting, design, design-build, operations and program management services for public and private clients. With US$7 billion in revenue and 28,000 employees worldwide, we deliver innovative, practical, sustainable solutions—helping clients develop and manage infrastructure and facilities that improve efficiency, safety and quality of life. CH2M HILL has long been recognized as an industry-leading program management, construction management and design firm as ranked by Engineering News-Record (2012) and has been named a leader in sustainable engineering and environmental services providers by Verdantix.
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