Veterans Affairs - San Diego Upgrades
Construction Management 

San Deigo, CA  |   2022 - Current

This project consists of design and construction to replace the domestic hot water heater and circulating pumps which have reached the end of their useful lives as well as the cold-water system. The project revises pumping and piping arrangement to maintain appropriate temperatures for Legionella control and replaces existing domestic water plumbing lines from the entrance of the main water line in Building 2. Replacement of hot water and hot water return vertical risers and laterals, including all valves and isolation equipment. The project also replaces the existing emergency generator paralleling switchgear in the central plant, provide an emergency power monitoring system in the central plant control room, provide emergency power system feeders in compliance with the National Electrical Code requirements to segregate emergency and essential power system circuits, and replace feeders as needed from emergency generators to generator switchgear and from generator switchgear to the automatic transfer switches. It also includes the installation of conduit and support infrastructure for replaced feeders. The emergency electrical system is a critical building system necessary to deliver care safely in the event of a loss of power by the utility company.