Discovering Excellence in Engineering: 2019 Project of the Year Submissions.

PositionARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING SPECIAL SECTION / PROJECTS

We are proud to once again present a glimpse at this year's Engineering Excellence Project of the Year Awards. The winners of this esteemed award will be announced during Engineer's Week 2019 occurring February 17 through 23. Congratulations to all the nominees.

AMC Engineers--Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) opened its new Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility for the Spring 2018 Semester. This contemporary, 119,000-square-foot. $121.6 million facility is situated and forms a connection between two existing buildings.

The facility's design begins with a high performance building envelope, specifically designed for the Southcentral Alaska climate. Window placement, skylights, glass walls, and sophisticated lighting and lighting controls create a high energy vibrant feel in a place where natural sunlight is scarce much of the school year.

The building's central HVAC systems are specifically designed to take full advantage of the low-pressure steam, 100 degree Fahrenheit waste heat, and 42 degree Fahrenheit chilled water provided from the UAF campus power plant.

The HVAC systems serving the thirty laboratory suites and high bay structural testing lab include heat exchangers to extract and reuse heat from the laboratory exhaust air steams. Radiant floor heating and cooling provide stable baseline indoor temperature throughout the building.

Waste heat from mechanical/electrical/server rooms, refrigeration system condensers, and numerous other heat sources is captured through a waste heat recovery loop, providing first stage preheat to the building's outside intake air. Waste heat from the central plant provides second stage preheat, limiting the demand for central plant steam heat.

Key building system components are displayed through observation windows, while large monitors display real-time building energy usage.

The building design also includes a highly flexible power distribution system and telecom distribution system to simplify future revisions to the building.

BBFM Engineers--Bartlett High School Cafeteria Addition

BBFM Engineers designed the first innovative bolted SidePlate moment frame structure in the state of Alaska. When Bartlett High School opened in the fall of 1973, it included Begich Junior High. Therefore, there were two separate cafeterias with separate kitchens. When it became solely a high school, neither cafeteria was large enough to hold the entire school. After...

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