Client: Londonderry School
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Gannett Fleming conducted project-phase commissioning services for a 26,000-square-foot school construction project to enable the facility to begin its life cycle with systems performing at optimal efficiency.

Special Features:

• U.S. Green Building Council LEED^® Certified
• Rainwater collection used to flush toilets
• Windows allow natural lighting of classrooms
• Wheat board cabinetry, a rapidly renewable resource, was incorporated
• Building’s green infrastructure; cutaway sections in walls for visitors to see and learn

Client: The Pennsylvania State University
Location: University Park, Pennsylvania

Gannett Fleming performed design and preparation of construction plans and specifications for a new five-level, 96,000-square-foot classroom and research building. The building contains classrooms and research laboratories for programs related to forestry, wildlife, fisheries, and water resources, as well as an auditorium with theater-style seating located over the basement area. A four-level atrium divides the building into two sectors: classrooms and laboratories.

A partial-width floor slab connects the two wings at each level of the atrium. The atrium roof consists of wood glulam structural members supporting wood decking and a glass curtainwall extending the full height of the structure at the atrium entrance. The design incorporated LEED^® criteria.

Client: Greenworks Development, LLC
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

GreenWorks Development’s Campus Square Project is part of one of the most comprehensive urban renewal projects ever undertaken in Harrisburg. One of the greenest buildings in Central Pennsylvania, this 73,000-square-foot building serves as a benchmark for sustainable design and construction. Now nearing the final stages of occupancy, the building houses office space for the Green Center of Central Pennsylvania, a sustainable energy education and training facility, as well as HACC’s Central Administration Offices and Board Room; it also hosts retail shops and restaurants on the first floor.

The total project cost was approximately $14.8 million. Registered with the U.S. Green Building Council, the Campus Square Project is in the process of obtaining LEED^® certification for Core and Shell Development.

In addition to its green attributes, the Campus Square Project served as a cornerstone of Harrisburg’s revitalization efforts by transforming an urban brownfield. The building was designed to blend in with the architecture of the surrounding historic neighborhood and resembles a former four-story structure that was constructed on the site. GreenWorks Development designed this building in tandem with the new Midtown Campus of HACC, the former Evangelical Press Building, located directly across the street.

The HACC campus is expected to bring more than 3,000 students to this area daily and help revitalize this historic district. With 25 green building components, the design of the Campus Square Project features numerous sustainable technologies.

Client: Harrisburg Area Community College
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Gannett Fleming provided fundamental building systems commissioning services for the design of two new buildings with a combined square footage of 50,000 square feet on the campus of a community college. Our services were performed in accordance with the U.S. Green Building Council LEED^® rating system.

The Health Education pavilion, a two-story, steel-framed laboratory and classroom building with a brick-veneer exterior wall system, is a LEED-registered project and was designed as a high-performance green building, aiming for gold-level LEED certification. The Childcare and Early Childhood Education Center is a single-story, slab-on-grade structure built using a truss roof system and steel stud-bearing walls with brick veneer and Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems. Both buildings include photovoltaic solar collection systems and other energy-saving design features. Heating and cooling is provided by on-site, shallow-well geothermal systems. A commissioning plan and commissioning procedures were developed for acceptance-testing of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, plumbing, and electrical systems, including fire alarms and power systems.

Client: Exelon Generation Company, LLC
Location: Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania

The Fairless Hills Power Generating Station in Fairless Hills, Pa., owned by Exelon Generation Company, LLC, is the second largest landfill gas-fueled power plant in the U.S. It currently produces 28 megawatts (MW) of power, or 672 MW hours daily — enough power for 30,000 homes. Ganflec Architects and Engineers, Inc. was retained to convert the industrial office area at this plant’s main entrance into an education center, one of only a few such facilities in the U.S. Integrated with the Pennsylvania Department of Education's proven curriculum, the center captivates and bolsters young minds by teaching children in a way that utilizes memorable physical activity.

With a keen focus on sustainability, Exelon required that the center renovations obtain LEED^® certification. While multiple factors, including an outdated industrial office space and unsalvageable interior finishes, made the LEED goals especially daunting, this facility surpassed Exelon’s initial goal and ultimately achieved the LEED Silver rating for Commercial Interiors.

This center boasts such features as building renovation and reuse to protect open lands; water-conserving landscaping and plumbing fixtures; energy-conserving building systems; use of local materials during construction; daylight in lieu of electric lighting; and use of reflective roofing for heat island effect reduction. In addition, Exelon obtains 100 percent renewable energy for the center from the generating station, thereby dramatically reducing the center’s carbon footprint.

Client: Shippensburg University
Location: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

Gannett Fleming developed contract drawings, specifications, and a construction cost estimate for a student recreation and fitness center. The facility will incorporate a variety of recreational amenities, including a fitness studio, a dance/aerobics room, racquetball/squash courts, a four-court gymnasium, a three-lane running track, locker rooms, administrative offices, and a central promenade. Sustainable features are important to both the university and the student body; as a result, natural light is to be harvested to illuminate the facility. Digital photo sensors will detect daylight levels and automatically adjust the output level of the electric lighting.

Additionally, three-stage stepped lighting for the fluorescent sport lamps in the gymnasium will be implemented, enabling the facility to remain cost-effective for the students to operate. The general power distribution system includes an outdoor unit substation with an interior secondary distribution section. A natural gas-powered emergency generator system will be incorporated for life safety and essential standby loads. The general power distribution system will provide power to electronic systems that will be integrated into the building, such as fire detection and alarm, master clock, and access-control systems, each of which will interface with existing campus-wide systems.

Client: The Pennsylvania State University
Location: State College, Pennsylvania

Gannett Fleming performed erosion and sedimentation control (ESC) and stormwater management for the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. The project was designed to meet or exceed the ESC requirements of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Centre County Conservation District, which approved the ESC plan. Construction was sequenced to reduce the amount of erosion occurring from the site. Erosion and sediment that occur from the site are collected and contained within the site with the use of several temporary ESC best management practices.

Stormwater runoff from the site flows through storm sewers to the existing Flower Garden site. The Flower Garden has been studied and has significant infiltration rates and capacity. The existing site condition was a large parking lot area. The proposed project reduces the amount of impervious on the site, thereby reducing the post development flow rate and quantity to less than the pre-development flow rate and quantity. The site was designed to flow runoff from the site over the Flower Garden, and this runoff will enter the ground in the Flower Garden. The project is attempting to achieve LEED^® certification.

Client: The Pennsylvania State University
Location: Throop, Pennsylvania

This project was designed to meet or exceed the erosion and sedimentation control (ESC) requirements of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Lackawanna County Conservation District, which approved the ESC plan. Construction was sequenced to reduce the amount of erosion occurring from the site. Erosion and sediment that occur from the site are collected and contained within the site with the use of several temporary ESC best management practices. The project is attempting to achieve LEED^® Silver certification.