Solar photovoltaic and back-up generator design for multiple facilities at wildlife refuges following Hurricane Sandy. At Cape May, prepared solar photovoltaic design for the headquarters building and a former US Coast Guard maintenance facility being converted into residences. Designed standby generators for the headquarters, visitor station, and two maintenance shops. At EB Forsythe, designed a photovoltaic system for the headquarters building. Also designed standby, back-up generator systems to augment existing generators at the headquarters, visitor center, and two dormitory residences. Reviewed back-up generator capacity at Supawna Meadows Refuge. Services included preparation of bidding documents and construction administration.
Burke Mountain Resort
DuBois & King provided mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design services for construction of two 5-story hotel buildings and a new Day Lodge building that links the two hotels at Burke Mountain Resort. The 157,000-sf facility includes indoor parking garages, commercial and retail levels with conference centers, a full commercial kitchen, restaurant and bar, coffee shop, exercise/spa area, commercial laundry, and skier services. The 116 hotel rooms comprise studio and one and two bedroom units with integrated occupant controls (HVAC, lighting), fire places, and washer connections. Exterior electrical design services included site lighting, exterior pool/hot tub services, and 150,000-sf of sidewalk and driveway snowmelt. The fast-track design was completed in less than 5 months from schematic design to full construction documentation.
Renderings by Toby Fuller
Architectural Design by Gardner Kilcoyne Architects
Norwich University West Hall
Multidiscipline engineering services for West Hall the newest civilian residence hall on the Norwich campus. West Hall is similar to the successful South Hall civilian residence hall. D&K engineers also provided engineering and construction phase services for South Hall. Designed to accommodate 286 students, the $26 million West Hall dormitory is the second phase of a plan to create civilian housing that will eventually house 750 students and allow nearly all Norwich undergraduates to live on campus. Like South Hall, the 84,204-sf West Hall building features lounges, a game room, and facilities for exercise and laundry. It is designed to meet LEED certification guidelines for energy conservation.
DuBois & King provided site/civil, electrical, structural, and construction phase services for the 5-story, 286-bed, brick and steel framed structure with connections to municipal water and wastewater. Services included interior and exterior lighting, telecommunications design, landscape architecture, design of an infiltration percolation stormwater management system, survey, Act 250, and permitting.
Middle School Electrical Design
DuBois & King provided electrical engineering services for the $10.5 million complete renovation of the Bellows Falls Middle School. The Bellows Falls Middle School is a 5-8 grade regional middle school serving 250 students. Scope of services included full design narrative, drawings, bidding assistance, shop drawing review, coordination with the architect, and site visits during construction. Electrical design included new interior lighting, life safety systems, switchboards, data infrastructure, HVAC interface, and design of LED site lighting. The project followed USGBC LEED Green Building guidelines.
Lyndon State College Stonehenge Parking Lot and Recreational Facilities
DuBois & King provided civil/site, electrical, and environmental engineering, and landscape architecture services to redesign and expand the main parking area of the College. Project included sustainable stormwater management improvements that incorporated a 1,800-sf rain garden and 0.25-acre channel rain garden/bioswale; energy saving LED area lights; expanded recreational facilities, including an enlarged basketball court, with modifications added for winter hockey use, and a 6,000-sf skatepark with connecting walkways; a waterline extension to serve the athletic fields; and design of interpretative signs for the rain garden sites. Project was designed and implemented to accommodate a rapid construction schedule during the summer break. Services include:
Topographic survey
Design of parking lot reconstruction and expansion
Design of pedestrian pathways
Supervision of boring subcontractor
Regular meetings with ad-hoc campus project team
Stormwater control and treatment measures
Design of two rain gardens
Permitting including Act 250
Design of basketball area with concrete curb for winter hockey
Erosion control measures
LED lighting design for recreation areas, pathways, and parking
Bid phase services
Construction administration and observation