The new, $150 million Kayenta Health Center serves 200 patients a day on the Navajo reservation in Kayenta, Arizona. The facility encompasses a 13-bed inpatient nursing unit, ambulatory surgery, laboratory, pharmacy, radiology, and emergency departments. Outpatient services include primary care, pediatrics, mental health, dental, eye, physical therapy, and community health and wellness.
When FlintCo, LLC, a commercial construction company, was engaged to provide its services for the new Kayenta Medical Center, they engaged Fisher Engineering, Inc. (FEI) to provide fire protection quality control during design and construction. In this role, FEI reviewed design drawings for the automatic sprinkler, life safety, and fire alarm systems for general compliance with the life safety/fire protection provisions of the applicable codes and standards. FEI then reviewed contractor submittals for compliance with the appropriate construction documents, including applicable codes and standards.
Owner
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Client
FlintCo, LLC
Location
Kayenta, AZ
Services Provided
- Design drawing review
- Contractor submittal review
- Life safety review
Construction Cost
$150 million
Size
182,000 SF
Completion Date
2014
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, needed to replace the fire alarm systems at seven buildings at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (EAMC), a 93-bed medical treatment facility located at the U.S. Army installation at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia. Each of the new systems had to be integrated with the new fire alarm and mass notification system in Building 300. The buildings included:
Fort Jackson is the U.S. Army’s main production center for basic combat training and houses more than 3,500 active duty soldiers and their 12,000 family members. To meet these troops’ expanding functional and technical needs, Fort Jackson’s starship barracks, which were built in the 1970s, needed to be renovated and expanded. The U.S. Army engaged Woolpert to provide architecture and engineering services for the renovation of three 32,000-square foot starship barracks—Buildings 5422, 5482, and 5500—and the construction of a new, two-quad dining facility to serve more than 5,700 troops. The stacked dining facility is the largest single mess hall facility built at a base and was designed using LEED principles. The work also included a new substation to provide power service for these expansions.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, selected Bullock Tice Associates to provide design services for the SOF (Special Operations Forces) AvFID (Aviation Foreign Internal Defense) operations and maintenance facilities at Duke Field at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The project consisted of a new, two-story squad operations facility, a new wash rack maintenance facility, and renovation of four existing maintenance facilities (Buildings 3115, 3117, 3044 and 3086).
Since 2003, Fisher Engineering, Inc. (FEI) has been engaged in an ongoing Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide fire protection engineering consulting services for the General Services Administration’s Safety & Environmental Management Branch comprehensive and re-inspection surveys in Region 4. Our scope of services includes an evaluation based on local fire and building codes, the National Fire Protection Association’s standards and guides, and other industry standards. Each deficiency noted is assigned a Risk Assessment Code that is based on the Mishap Probability and Hazard Severity pertaining to the specific building, occupants, and mission continuity. FEI then develops recommendations aimed at reducing the building’s overall risk to an acceptable level, not simply at correcting all deficiencies.
Peachtree Summit is a 31-story skyscraper in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1975, Peachtree Summit is known for its triangular shape. The building was constructed on a lot bordered by three streets: Atlanta’s Downtown Connector, West Peachtree Street, and Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard—hence its unusual shape.
Charles R. Drew Charter School is the city of Atlanta’s first charter school. It opened in 2000 after an urban revitalization project tore down the blighted East Lake Meadows housing project and replaced it with The Villages of East Lake, an innovative, mixed-income community next to the historic East Lake Golf Club. The school aims to serve as a “pipeline” to college for low-income, minority students.
Fort Bragg, a large, 251-square mile United States Army installation, is home to the U.S. Army Airborne Forces and Special Forces, as well as the U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command. In 2011, Fisher Engineering, Inc. (FEI) was engaged by Merrick & Company to provide performance-based fire protection system design services and life safety analysis as part of a design/adapt-build team for a new UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) maintenance hangar and company operations facility. Merrick & Company provided architecture and engineering services for the new facility.
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