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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 On May 19th<\/sup> the Groundbreaking Ceremony for Phase II of the Grand Ridge K8 School was held on-site to kick off the construction phase for the new building additions.\u00a0 The kickoff of Phase II was an accumulation of effort between ourselves, DAG Architects<\/a><\/em>, Donofro Architects<\/a><\/em>, and Culpepper Construction<\/a><\/em>. Watford Engineering Inc. (WEI) is proud to share our role in the design of mechanical, plumbing, and fire protection systems for the new additions and renovations to Grand Ridge.\u00a0 The second phase of construction is approximately 68,000 SF and includes a new Cafeteria, Mini Gym, and Elementary wing with an Enhanced Hurricane Protection Area (EHPA).\u00a0 This adds to Phase I completed during the Summer of 2023, which included 14,000 SF of classroom renovations.\u00a0 Phase III will complete the project with an additional 54,000 SF including a Middle School wing, Media Center, and Administration.\u00a0 This project underscores our commitment to delivering innovative, efficient, and sustainable engineering solutions tailored to the needs of the client.<\/p>\n

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Mechanical systems designed included air-cooled chillers with Variable Air Volume (VAV) air handling units for the Cafeteria and air-cooled direct expansion (DX) split systems for the remainder of the facilities.\u00a0 New Digital Controls are included to maintain indoor air quality and energy efficiency.\u00a0 WEI will also be providing Commissioning services to ensure the systems will function as designed.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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Plumbing<\/u><\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Plumbing systems designed include sanitary drain, waste, and vent, natural gas, domestic hot, and domestic cold water.\u00a0 The design employed low flow fixtures and metering faucets to reduce water consumption, a high efficiency propane water heater serving the kitchen, electric storage water heating for the classrooms, and tankless electric for remote loads.\u00a0 Fixtures specified are commercial grade appropriate for the K12 School environment.<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 On May 19th the Groundbreaking Ceremony for Phase II of the Grand Ridge K8 School was held on-site to kick off the construction phase for the new building additions.\u00a0 The kickoff of Phase II was an accumulation of effort between ourselves, DAG Architects, Donofro Architects, and Culpepper Construction. Watford Engineering Inc. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[21,45,43,38,41,36,40,20,39,42,44,35,37],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ground-breaking","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-engineering-consulting","tag-fire-protection-engineering","tag-grand-ridge-k8","tag-groundbreaking","tag-inc","tag-k8-classroom-addition","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-new-k8","tag-plumbing-engineering","tag-professional-consulting","tag-watford-engineering","tag-wei","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"




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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 On May 19th<\/sup> the Groundbreaking Ceremony for Phase II of the Grand Ridge K8 School was held on-site to kick off the construction phase for the new building additions.\u00a0 The kickoff of Phase II was an accumulation of effort between ourselves, DAG Architects<\/a><\/em>, Donofro Architects<\/a><\/em>, and Culpepper Construction<\/a><\/em>. Watford Engineering Inc. (WEI) is proud to share our role in the design of mechanical, plumbing, and fire protection systems for the new additions and renovations to Grand Ridge.\u00a0 The second phase of construction is approximately 68,000 SF and includes a new Cafeteria, Mini Gym, and Elementary wing with an Enhanced Hurricane Protection Area (EHPA).\u00a0 This adds to Phase I completed during the Summer of 2023, which included 14,000 SF of classroom renovations.\u00a0 Phase III will complete the project with an additional 54,000 SF including a Middle School wing, Media Center, and Administration.\u00a0 This project underscores our commitment to delivering innovative, efficient, and sustainable engineering solutions tailored to the needs of the client.<\/p>

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Mechanical<\/u><\/strong><\/h1> \u00a0 Mechanical systems designed included air-cooled chillers with Variable Air Volume (VAV) air handling units for the Cafeteria and air-cooled direct expansion (DX) split systems for the remainder of the facilities.\u00a0 New Digital Controls are included to maintain indoor air quality and energy efficiency.\u00a0 WEI will also be providing Commissioning services to ensure the systems will function as designed.\u00a0

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Plumbing<\/u><\/strong><\/h1> \u00a0 Plumbing systems designed include sanitary drain, waste, and vent, natural gas, domestic hot, and domestic cold water.\u00a0 The design employed low flow fixtures and metering faucets to reduce water consumption, a high efficiency propane water heater serving the kitchen, electric storage water heating for the classrooms, and tankless electric for remote loads.\u00a0 Fixtures specified are commercial grade appropriate for the K12 School environment.

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Fire Protection<\/u><\/strong><\/h1> \u00a0 Because of poor water flow\u00a0in the public water system, WEI designed a Fire Pump and distribution system to serve the\u00a0campus.\u00a0 Building systems for Phase II are wet pipe with steel pipe distribution within the buildings.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":158,"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watford-engineering.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}