 Rendering
of 101 Congress Avenue Federal Office Building Renovation
after completion. The General Services Administration (GSA) engaged Syska Hennessy
Group to provide commissioning services for its renovated Clark
Street facility in Chicago. The GSA renovated 187,000 square
feet of this 559,000 square foot historic
facility originally constructed in 1912. The renovation became
the new home of INS in
Chicago. The project also included the enclosure of an
existing courtyard with an atrium. The atrium allows four
season use
of the courtyard space and provides for the use of natural
daylight and lends an open, modern feel for the facility.
The systems included in this project are base building HVAC, atrium
ventilation, building management system, electrical distribution,
emergency power generation and distribution, fire detection,
fire sprinkler, lighting controls, variable frequency drives.
On
this project, Syska Hennessy Group provided a three
phase commissioning process that includes:
- Design Phase Commissioning: Commissions the Design Criteria
- Construction Phase Commissioning: Commissions the Systems
and Equipment
- O&M Transition Phase Commissioning: Commissions the People and Processes
We completed the Design Phase Commissioning portion of the
project, which included many recommendations not only to operability
issues but also reliability and maintainability as well. For
example, provisions had not been made to service the interior
or exterior
atrium glass. Nor had condensation or frost been considered
in the design. Syska raised these subjects with the design
team, which
resulted in added additional utilities in the atrium areas.
Additional study was performed on the atrium to ensure that
frost would not
form on the atrium interior on cold, design days in Chicago.
The Construction Phase Commissioning services of this project
included start-up and acceptance test procedures for each individual
piece of equipment included in the scope. It also
included
integrated systems testing.
Finally we provided an O&M Transition Phase Commissioning
plan which not only ensured that the people are properly
trained to operate the equipment, but also that they have the
proper documentation
and tools (e.g.: Computerized Maintenance Management System,
Systems Operations and Maintenance Manuals, etc.) to operate
and maintain
the facility and its systems.
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