Project Summary

• Budget: $3,958,500
• Approved Construction Cost: $3,701,972
• Architect/Engineer: Kalmans Marshall Engineering Inc.
• Contractor: Sterling Structures Inc. (CSP)
• KISD Project Manager: Lisa Kassman 
• Project Completion: Anticipated December 2011
• Project Description:
  Provide for the construction of a new chilled water plant and renovations to the existing hot water plant. 
• Background & Justification:
  This original central plant serves the large majority (approx. 75%) of the teaching and administrative spaces.  There is a critical concern that this plant is beyond its designated life with a potential negative impact on the campus should it fail.  “Band Aid” maintenance repairs no longer will ensure its viability. Per the comments from an outside engineering consultant:
  
  
• Existing Trane AHU's: Replace all existing air handling units; increase outside air quantities into mechanical room air handling units; remove refrigerant machinery from mechanical mezzanine and separate the gas fired equipment from the air handling equipment by construction of a separate room within the existing space.
• Existing chillers: Replace these chillers with high efficiency chillers and building new central plant. This is to resolve code violations in mechanical mezzanine. Provide a variable primary pumping system.
• Existing boilers: Replace boilers with multiple high efficiency boilers to reduce gas consumption. Build room around boilers to separate gas fired equipment from HVAC equipment.
• Existing Electrical System: Replace all electrical equipment to provide future capacity.