The client was operating at maximum capacity and contacted ADF Engineering to help expand their facility to provide additional capability. The finished product resulted in a high warehouse storage capacity and ancillary support facilities.
Project Summary
This project was designed in an accelerated three-month timeframe and construction started in December to meet tight construction deadlines. The project included:
- Adding 3 new clean rooms
- Moving 3 existing clean rooms to a dedicated 100% outside Air Handling Unit (AHU)
- Expanding administrative areas, including a new executive office area
- Expanding the cafeteria and break room areas
- Adding a 45-foot spandrel beam and dividing partition to separate break and meeting room areas
- Creating a tech space for new AHU and ancillary equipment
- Designing new laboratory spaces suitable for specialty gasses and fume hood exhaust
- Outlining new parking areas and a maintenance addition
- Maximizing utilization of a tight site plan in a mixed land use urban setting
- Coordinating closely with city building officials for expedient plan approval
- Integrating the new addition seamlessly with existing siding for a modern, high-tech appearance
- Adding a new secure employee entrance vestibule for better security and convenience
- Creating a new, automated high-rack storage warehouse
- Completing 85 design drawings over the course of the project
