The Ohio State University Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Laboratory Building

This facility for the Department of Mechanical Engineering consists of three wings which include research and instructional laboratories, offices, classrooms, student services, administrative offices, lounge, kitchen, meeting rooms, multipurpose room, and auditorium. The building is also equipped with distance learning classrooms. The project included the design of substations and connection to the campus distribution system with 15 kV switchgear, cables, ductbanks, and manholes. The building has an 880 kW emergency generator located in the penthouse, and it sits on an inertia base to control vibration. Connected to the campus chilled water system, the building has multiple internal chilled water distribution systems to provide environmental cooling of the building, process cooling for laboratory equipment, and cooling for research computing and server rooms. The building site is compact and required meticulous location and coordination of site utilities as the general site and site utility work for this project progressed. Part of the project included site support work for a pedestrian plaza and phased construction of a loading dock area so that nearby postal service operations could continue uninterrupted.

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