Base Administrative Building

Camp Blaz Marine Corps Base, Guam

• Notable Features

  • Camp Blaz HQ Building

  • 69,000 Square Feet

  • Storm Shelter

• Best Value Design Elements

  • High Efficiency Air-Cooled Chiller Plant

  • Dedicated emergency cooling loop

  • Emergency Operations Center (EOC)

  • Classified and unclassified telecommunication infrastructure with diverse paths for data, power, and cooling.

  • Certified HPSB Guiding Principles Compliant Design

J-011 is a three-story administration building set as the base command headquarters and telecommunications center of the Pacific at the new Camp Blaz, Marine Corps Base, Guam. The base administrative building is a three-story structure for base administrative functions, Emergency Operations Center (EOC), Range Control Facility, Fire Desk Operations, and Electrical/Comm Maintenance Shop.

The Legal Services Facility is a one-story structure supporting legal services, a courtroom, and the judge’s quarters. The Postal Services Center is a one-story structure providing postal services to base personnel. The facility will support an estimated 220 military and civilian personnel. With an estimated construction completion date of Fall 2024, the second floor houses the EOC, which doubles as an emergency storm shelter.

InSynergy Engineering, Inc. was tasked with providing the mechanical, plumbing, and telecommunications design for the facility. For energy efficiency, system reliability, and longevity due to Guam’s tropical climate, the mechanical system was designed around an air-cooled chilled water system.

The J-011 building will house over sixty unclassified, classified, and commercial equipment cabinets to support all telecommunication functions throughout the structures. Telecommunication systems include backbone and cabling systems for unclassified and classified voice and data, radio frequency transmission, cable television, audio-visual, video teleconference, grounding system, intercom system, industrial control system, and electronic security systems, including an automated access control system, intrusion detection system, and closed-circuit television.

Family Housing

U.S. Army Garrison, Kwajalein Atoll

• Notable Features

  • 5.2 Acres Army Family Housing Site

  • Laundry Room

  • Covered Lanai

• Best Value Design Elements

  • Hardened MEP Equipment

  • Corrosion resistant design

  • Certified LEED v.4 Silver

  • ENERGY STAR appliances and fixtures

Located on U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the atoll is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, formerly known as Kwajalein Missile Range. Kwajalein Atoll hosts the Space Fence radar, which tracks satellites and orbital debris. The test site is also used for ballistic missile and missile-interceptor testing, and for space operations support. The existing forty abandoned housing units in seven buildings at the Army Family Housing site were demolished and twenty-four single-family dome-shaped housing units were constructed on the site. Each housing unit consisted of a master bedroom with its own bathroom, two or three additional bedrooms with a shared bathroom, laundry room, living room and kitchen, utility closet, covered lanai, and a storage area. Due to the corrosive environment in Kwajalein, fiberglass was selected as the material for the housing units.

InSynergy Engineering, Inc. provided the mechanical, electrical, and fire protection design work for the new twenty-four single-family housing units on site. The housing site consisted of twenty-one standard three-bedroom units, two mobility-accessible three-bedroom units, one standard four bedroom unit, and one mobility-accessible four-bedroom unit. The site included traditional concrete block structures for utility distribution including an area distribution node and four transformer vaults. On-site air-cooled condensing units serving the housing units are enclosed with concrete block walls.

Interior electrical work included providing power, lighting, and telecommunication to support the new housing units. Due to the method of construction of the fiberglass dome panels, conduits had to be ran within the seam covers to be concealed. False joint covers were also provided to mount the ceiling fan/light combo fixture, as the drop ceiling is only provided in the center of the dome structure. Exterior electrical work included sizing the unit substations in each transformer vault serving the housing units and providing exterior pole lights around the site.

Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii

renovate building 580 design phase

Our firm provided mechanical, electrical, telecommunications, and fire protection engineering design services for the major renovation of 90,000 sf Building 580 to house a Command and Control Facility (C2F) and administrative support functions. We are providing a redundant HVAC system serving critical areas, overhead ducted VAV zones, individual temperature controls, dedicated ventilation/exhaust for UPS, and dedicated VAV AHUs for certain spaces, with design conditions of 75F/50%RH (72F/45% RH for Ops Center, SCIF, telecom/server rooms). Electrical work includes upgrading power to the building to accommodate increased loads; providing power distribution throughout the building, lightning protection and grounding systems for the building, standby power systems including generator and ATS, a UPS system, and power for all mechanical equipment. Telecom work involves upgrading exterior telecom infrastructure to the building, providing telecom infrastructure throughout the building including pathways and outlets, CATV for various office areas, support for VTC equipment, security infrastructure, signal grounds for raised floor areas, and exterior grounding around the building perimeter.

FY21 Repair building 1180

InSynergy is currently providing the mechanical and fire protection engineering design work for plumbing, ventilation, air conditioning, and fire protection for the construction and repair of a new Tactical Equipment Maintenance Facility (TEMF) facility and ancillary support buildings. Mechanical work will consist of replacement of mechanical and plumbing systems, conducting cooling load analysis, provision of new below grade oil/water separator for B1180 drainage system, compressed air outlets in accordance with TEMF Standard Design, and exhaust systems. Fire protection scope of work will involve provision of looped water system, fire sprinkler system evaluation, new fire alarm and fir sprinkler, Life Safety Analysis, new fire hydrants and hydrant flow test. Estimated Cost: $15 million.

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Fort Shafter, Oahu Hawaii

FY08 MCA PN 61882 Barracks

We provided the mechanical, electrical, and fire protection engineering design work for plumbing, ventilation, air conditioning, fire protection, power and lighting for the Fort Shafter Barracks.  This includes providing a 156 unit Unaccompanied Enlisted Personnel Housing (UEPH) facilities to house single soldiers and to be similar to apartments.  The goal was to design the HVAC systems, service water heating, power, and lighting systems to achieve an energy consumption that is at least 30% below the consumption of a baseline building meeting the minimum requirements of ANSI/ASHRAE/ESNA Standard 90.1-2004.  Fort Shafter Barracks is the first LEED certified building for the Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division at Fort Shafter.  Mechanical scope included full design of plumbing, ventilation, air conditioning systems, hot water systems, DDC energy management system, and CxA. Electrical work involved providing power, lighting, telephone, data and CATV systems, site electrical and telecom and mass notification system. Fire protection scope includes life safety analysis, addressable fire alarm, and QCFP services.

palm circle historic renovations

This project included providing a full interior renovation of 14 historic homes approximately 5,000 sf each, which included a survey and assessment, full design and construction management to completely replace all mechanical and electrical systems, including plumbing, ventilation, air conditioning, new electrical, fire alarm, data, and lighting systems. These single family residences were originally built in 1907 and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and designated as a National Landmark. Systems are being revitalized while maintaining the historic appearance. Estimated cost: $14 million.

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Quad B, Schofield Barracks

Quad B, PN 76586 WBR Phase 2BB, Bldg 156 and Central Plant, and PN 76587 WBR Phase 2C, Bldgs 157 and 158

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HAWAII

We are providing the mechanical and fire protection engineering design work for plumbing, ventilation, air conditioning, and fire protection for preliminary investigations, parametric design charrette for VE study for the renovation of Quad B.

Our scope of work includes the following:

• Conduct a site survey of the existing facilities to confirm existing conditions and to validate existing as-built documentation.
• Conduct preliminary calculations, energy simulation, and straw man design with 0% cost estimate prior to the charrette.
• Attend 3-day charrette to validate project requirements and budget.
• Attend in-team eco-charrette and conduct LEED analysis.  This process will update the energy simulation and LEED features for the project.
• Summarize project requirements in a charrette report.
• Provide a conceptual design for the mechanical, and fire protection systems serving the building consisting of one line schematics, zoning, and equipment sizing.
• Provide a life safety evaluation and basis for design for the mechanical and fire protection work.
• Provide cost estimates based on the conceptual design developed for the project.
• Coordination of work with all other disciplines.
• Respond to VE study recommendations and implement into the conceptual design if found feasible.

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Hawaii Army Family Housing Residential Communities Initiatives

OAHU, HAWAII

InSynergy Engineering is one of two electrical firms that is responsible for the design of site electrical infrastructure for a 7,700 family housing unit Army privatization project for ACTUS Lend Lease.   The scope of the project includes the complete electrical site design for these multi-family housing army base communities, including replacement of electrical primary distribution and secondary service, telephone, CATV, and street lighting.  The total design package is estimated to take 10 years to complete for a total construction cost of $1.7 billion dollars.

Construction has been completed for 180 units at Kalakaua, Phase 1 and 144units at Porter Phase 1.  Construction is ongoing for 300 units at Porter Phase 2, 120 units at U.S. Coast Guard, 465 units at Kalakaua Phase 2, and 400 units at Kaena. We have completed the design of family housing areas of approximately 284 units at Moyer and are currently working on the design of 235 family housing units at Wiliwili and 186 family housing units at Santa Fe.

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Wideband Satellite Communication (SATCOM) Operational Control Facility

NCTAMS, WAHIAWA, HAWAII

The Wideband Satellite Communication Control (WSOC) facility is a new 30,000 sf satellite communications center that will be located in NCTAMS, Wahiawa and will be designed for LEED silver.  Our scope of work for this project included the detailed mechanical and electrical engineering design work for the facility.

The mechanical scope includes the following:  Provide a new air conditioning system with N+1 redundancy, plumbing to all new plumbing fixtures including water conserving fixtures to meet LEED requirements; hot water heating system consisting of electric point of use heaters; and support for the emergency generators including fuel storage, and distribution systems.  The air conditioning system consists of a water cooled primary chilled water system with an air cooled back up chiller for back-up.  The scope also included providing VAV air distribution throughout the WSOC administrative areas; under floor computer room air conditioning units for the WSOC and SATCOM equipment areas; a complete DDC Energy Management System throughout the building. LEED and EPACT 2005 measures incorporated into the project included high efficiency water-cooled equipment, demand controlled ventilation, occupancy sensors, and heat recovery; implementing hot water reheat system for the floor mounted computer room units utilizing heat recovered from the air conditioning system; and providing general ventilation throughout the building to meet ASHRAE 62 requirements.

The electrical scope includes providing primary utility power by utilizing new duct banks and conduits from the HRSOC and P173 projects; coordinating with NAVFACPAC and NCTAMS in order to utilize their new Navy Switching Station switchgear for primary utility power to WSOC; designing an N+1 redundant emergency generator system capable of supporting the entire WSOC building load for up to 10 days; and an N+1 redundant battery backup UPS system with 15 minute backup time to support critical WSOC and SATCOM equipment.  The electrical scope also includes providing the interior power distribution and lighting; the complete facility grounding system; infrastructure for base communications services from the WSOC facility to Buildings 5 and 261; commercial communications services (CATV) to the new facility; complete interior system to support base communications (NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and voice), commercial CATV services; under floor red and black cable tray pathway systems for operations equipment; ASCT overhead cable ladder racks; elevated waveguide system (cable tray and supports) from interior of Building 409 to under floor of new WSOC facility; a waveguide trench from new antenna equipment pad; all grounding systems and subsystems required; and infrastructure for theAccess Control, IDS, and CCTV, and an overhead paging system.

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Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Bachelor Enlisted Quarters

KANEOHE MARINE CORPS BASE, HAWAII

We provided the mechanical, electrical, and fire protection engineering design work for the Design-Build portion for the Kaneohe Bachelor Enlisted Quarters. The new BEQ facility will be five stories and consist of 150 units and is designed to achieve a LEED Silver rating.

The mechanical scope of work includes providing the following:

• Plumbing to all plumbing fixtures including water closets, lavatories, sinks, showers, hose bibs, washing machine boxes, and electric water coolers.
• Air conditioning consisting of a single high efficiency screw or scroll chiller and dual cell cooling tower.
• Ventilation for all restrooms, the central plant mechanical room, and laundry dryers.

The electrical scope of work includes providing the following:

• New electrical primary underground service and underground duct lines for telephone, EMCS, and cable television (CATV) systems.
• New primary pad mounted switchgear and transformers for the new electrical service and chiller plant.
• New power, lighting, and telecom in the new BEQ buildings and mechanical chiller plant building.
• New power and lighting in the new pavilion buildings.
• New parking and walkway lighting.

The fire protection scope of work includes providing the following:

• Wet pipe fire sprinkler systems designed and installed to comply with UFC 3-600-01 and NFPA 13.
• Available water supply will be supplied by a new water main.
• Fire hydrants around the perimeter of the BEQ.
• Fire Department Access by a new fire lane paved with grasscrete in front of the building.
• Backflow prevention.
• Wet standpipe system in each stairwell per UFC-3-600-01 and NFPA 14.
• Addressable fire alarm system with a fire alarm panel and radio transmitter.
• Audible notification throughout all buildings, and single station smoke detectors in each residence.

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Whole Barracks Renewal, Phases 2F2 and 2G

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HAWAII

Mechanical, electrical, and fire protection design work for Phases 2F2 and 2G.

Mechanical design services include the following:

• Provide plumbing and ventilation for the storage areas, toilet areas, locker rooms, and restrooms, gear washdown areas, laundry areas, and bathrooms.
• Provide air conditioning for the admin areas, classrooms, and barracks modules.
• Connect utilities (CHW, HW, CW, and HWR) to existing stubouts and coordinate with civil engineer.
• Provide dehumidification control for the arms vaults.
• Provide a new DDC energy management system to serve the entire 2F2 and 2G Barracks.
• Provide post-construction commissioning services to commission new mechanical equipment installed under this project.
• Electrical design services include the following:
• Provide new power, lighting, telephone, data and CATV systems.
• Provide new multipurpose lighting for recreational area and play court area.
• Provide mass notification system for courtyard and buildings to be renovated as part of this project.
• Fire Protection design services include the following:
• Conduct Fire Protection and Life Safety analysis.
• Provide a wet-pipe fire sprinkler protection in accordance with UFC-3-600-01.
• Provide a fire alarm system for all new buildings.

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