building total area
200-acre site
completion date
Phase I—2000
total construction cost
$120,000,000
owner
State of Washington Department of Corrections
a/e team
NBBJ Architects
Coffman Mechanical Engineers
Sparling Electrical Engineers
construction team
Fluor Daniels General Contractor
University Mechanical Contractor
Berg Electrical Contractor
Siemens DDC Control Contractor
project description
This campus is a new, 2,000 bed correctional facility for the State of Washington.
There are a total of 27 buildings in the first phase of construction for the site. Detention facilities include one minimum security building, five medium security buildings, one maximum security building, and one segregation building. Other support buildings include programming for libraries, classrooms, recreation facilities, food service, healthcare, industries training, and administration.
The HVAC systems incorporated a complex smoke evacuation mode, allowing the safe and orderly egress of inmates during a lockdown condition.
services provided
WJCx was sub-contracted by the Commissioning Agent to provide Test Engineer services. WJCx performed design reviews, wrote/executed functional performance tests, and assisted in the resolution of mechanical system operational problems.
systems tested
20 gas-fired, multizone air handling units, 5 rooftop gas-fired DX air handling units, 19 rooftop air conditioning units, 10 computer roof air conditioning units, 23 exhaust fans, and 7 active smoke evacuation systems.