FORSCOM

Apogee Consulting Group, P.A. provided complete electrical engineering services for the new construction of a 635,000 square foot military headquarters building, an associated energy plant, a 36,000 square foot data center, an 18,000 square foot disaster recovery center, a 15,000 square foot information management building, and a 4,000 square foot addition to an existing information management building. Apogee’s services included electrical power design, lighting design, LEED® certification support, electrical coordination studies using SKM Power Tools, arc flash analysis, and ground resistance testing. The project was designed using AutoCAD Revit 2009. The overall project budget was $252 M. The electrical power pproject cost was approximately $37 M. This Project achieved LEED^® Gold Certification.

Features of the electrical power design included:

• Medium voltage (12470V) distribution design.
• Medium voltage (12470V) emergency power design that consisted of 4 emergency generators with a power capacity of 11.5 MW.
• Building power service equipment design that included redundant, double-ended switchboards for the Headquarters building, the energy plant, data center, and disaster recovery center.
• Building power service equipment design that included redundant, double-ended switchboards with redundant generators for the disaster recovery center.
• Building power distribution design at 480V for the Headquarters building that included both normal and UPS bus duct risers.
• Lighting design and analysis to meet the requirements for Gold LEED Certification of the buildings.
• Emergency power system design for the disaster recovery center and the information management building.
• Building power distribution design at 480V for the data center that included a 3000 kVA, n+1, UPS design.
• Building power distribution design at 120/208V for the data center that included 12 PDU units to provide redundant power with a n+1 UPS design and full emergency generator backup.
• Outdoor lighting design and analysis.

Apogee Consulting Group, P.A. provided Electrical Engineering services as part of a design-build team.