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Design
of Educational Facilities demands thorough knowledge of most
systems within the mechanical and electrical disciplines.
Design must incorporate the latest technology available for
life safety, environmental comfort, and communications, into
facilities that are designed for life expectancies of thirty
or more years while simultaneously allowing for ease of maintenance
during that period. In no other type project do design professionals
have to incorporate the requirements of all of the following
into a single facility: a performing theater (with full theatrical
lighting and sound); materials testing and chemical laboratories
(and their related specialties: fume hoods, compressed air,
vacuum, gas distribution, acid dilution and disposal, emergency
eye-wash and shower); a modern library; TV and radio production
studios (with capabilities to receive/transmit/distribute
via RF, microwave, and satellite); automobile or boat repair
shop (paint booths, gas/heliarc welding, waste oil disposal,
traveling crane, fiberglass repair, dust collection); corporate
offices; daily food service for over 1,000 persons; the kitchen
and laundry rooms of several homes (Home-Economics); a sports
complex incorporating Olympic swimming competition, rowing,
scuba diving, sailing, rowing, and gymnastics.
Gartek
Engineering's expertise in educational facilities spans from
higher learning centers to day-care, from construction of
new facilities to remodeling of existing spaces. Whether your
needs are complex or simpler, Gartek can design the MEPFP
of your projects. The following is a partial listing of projects:
Lake
Worth High School. Renovation
and expansion of existing campus. 57,000 SF of new construction,
30,000 SF of gut-out renovation. New site electrical distribution
for entire campus, new central plant, new retrofit for technology
for entire campus, new clock, intercom, security, data, voice,
and TV systems. $14M completed 1998.
Maritime
and Science Technology School. New
magnet high school incorporating instructional, vocational
and laboratory spaces. Program includes four science laboratories,
barge/boat operations lab, materials lab, small engine repair,
music/band, business education, art (full theatrical stage),
aquatics centered physical education program (rowing, swimming,
sailing, scuba diving, aquatic polo, platform diving). Curriculum
incorporates the first Jr. Coast Guard ROTC program in the
nation. $9M, 88,000 SF.
Pine
Crest Schools. Multipurpose Arts Building $1M. New
Auditorium, Media Center, Art & Music Suites $3M. Wayne
Huizenga Family Science & Technology Building $5M. New
Middle School, $3.4M. New Campus Central Plant.
University
of Miami. Professional Arts Building, 10 stories,
150,000 SF, 700 car garage, $9M. School of Nursing, 6 stories,
51,000 SF, (Programming). Ziff Tower, New School of Architecture.
Misc. Services Contracts 1994-Present.
Florida
Atlantic University. Mechanical
and Electrical engineering consultants for Campus Services.
1994-1999.
Dade
County Public Schools. Electrical
Engineering Projects Consultant. 1995 to 2000.
EXPANSION AND RENOVATION PROJECTS:
The following facilities incorporated new construction, which
approximately doubled the size of the existing schools. These
schools were retrofitted with new mechanical and electrical
systems including HVAC, power, lighting, fire alarm, intercom,
security, voice, data, master clock and CATV/CCTV Systems.
Dade
County Public Schools: Avocado,
Gulfstream and Redondo Elementary Schools, $9M; Kensington,Tucker
and Ponce Middle, $3M
School
Board of Broward County: Hollywood
Hills Elementary, $3M; Pembroke Pines Elementary, $4M; Bright
Horizons School, elementary for severely handicapped, $3M.
Fire
Alarm Replacement Projects: Perrine
Elementary, West Homestead Elementary, Palmetto Sr. High,
$300,000.
Miami
Institute of Psychology, Phase I. Renovation and new construction of approximately 80,000 SF of classroom
space and additional parking area. $3.5M
University of Miami School of Medicine. Halissee Hall. Renovation, complete Restoration
and Relocation
of an existing three story historical building. New mechanical
and electrical systems. $4.5M
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