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As part of our Third Party Commissioning contract with DGS, GES was tasked to commission the new HVAC system in Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School. The commissioning was done in accordance with ACG and NEBB standards.... Continue Reading

GES provided MEP & FP engineering design, as well as commissioning services, for the renovation of a deteriorated vivarium and laboratory into an ABSL-2 small animal vivarium. The existing laboratory, was conditioned via a water source heat pump system with the fluid cooler located on grade, and two adjacent rooms were served by a dedicated split DX heat pump system. Due to the space constraints, the factory fabricated packaged rooftop unit (RTU) was designed to be located on grade with two exhaust fans and electric duct heaters. The RTU was designed with one bank of 30% efficient... Continue Reading

The Entertainment and Sports Arena, a new LEED Silver,91,600 sf, 4,200-seat facility, is a multipurpose entertainment, sports, and cultural complex. Constructed on 4 acres of the historic St. Elizabeths East Campus, it serves as a practice/training facility for the Washington Wizards basketball team, an arena for the Washington Mystics and Washington GO- GO basketball team, and an entertainment/concert venue for community based events. GES was the Commissioning Agent for the project to provide services needed to achieve Enhanced Commissioning under LEED... Continue Reading

GES has been providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection engineering services to NIH under a variety of contract arrangements, completing nearly 150 tasks. GES has provided a wide variety of architecture and engineering services for the construction, renovation and repair of healthcare facilities, laboratories, animal care facilities, offices, and infrastructure. A sampling of task orders to date have included: Pre-Design Study for New Fuel Tanks, Building 11: GES was responsible for the development of a study to expand the back-up heating fuel system on NIH's Bethesda... Continue Reading

GES provided design review and enhanced commissioning services for a two-story operations and maintenance facility. The project will consist of a 92,000 sf facility including a 20,065 sf police operations facility with a 1,350 sf detention facility, a 13,854 sf storage facility, a fuel depot, salt storage building and a gazebo. Project was designed LEED... Continue Reading

GES provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering and commissioning services for the adaptive reuse of two residential buildings for use as a headquarters office facility by The Links, Incorporated. The goal of the project was to create a state-of-the-art, energy efficient, sustainable facility that would support its mission of ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans by providing world class office and meeting facilities. This is the first LEED Gold facility for an African American... Continue Reading