New Allied Health Sciences Building, Howard Community College

Leach Wallace Associates Inc. is providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection design for new Allied Health Sciences Building at Howard Community College. The project consists of approximately 110,000 SF of new construction. The Allied Health Sciences Building consists of a basement level and three floors of health education simulation suites, classroom, lecture hall and administration space.

The classroom and support areas on the first through third floors will be served by packaged air handling units located in the basement mechanical room and on the roof. The administration areas will be served by an air handling unit on the roof, the first floor lobby and the lecture hall will be being served by an air handling unit in the basement mechanical room. The building will have a dedicated chiller and boiler plant that serves the building and provides a level of chilled water redundancy for the existing Student Services, the Visual Performing Arts buildings and the future planned Science and Technology building via underground piping. New domestic water, sanitary, storm and gas services are being provided to the building. The chiller, boilers, emergency and normal power electrical equipment will be located in the basement.

This project will be designated as a LEED^® Silver project in accordance with LEED^® for new construction v3.0. LEED^® items will include ground source heat pumps, solar domestic hot water and energy recovery units.