Final Report

Thesis Final Report

The goal for the mechanical retrofit redesign is to study three major areas associated with sustainability, including water efficiency, energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality.  Three sustainable alternatives were chosen and will be discussed.  These three include a rain water storage application for the cooling tower, the addition of variable frequency drives for the pumps, and a ducted ventilation air supply to all critical spaces. 

The construction management breadth will provide a detailed cost and schedule analysis of the ducted ventilation supply system.  The second breadth includes an architecture redesign of the building envelope in order for the building to become more energy efficiency, namely replacing the windows.   The windows met ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007, however, ending up using more energy than the existing windows.