Commissioning

City of Boston Engine 17 Fire Station
Boston, MA

This new 18,000 SF fire station replaces the former station built in 1928 on the same site. It houses two apparatus bays and one chief’s apparatus bay with adjacent technical spaces. The bays are served by 3 fire poles, 2 stairs, and a 2 stop elevator. Also included is a public entrance, patrol desk, an open concept kitchen and dayroom, fitness area, lockers, changing rooms, and sleeping and office spaces, and storage areas.

AHA is providing LEED Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning; LEED Administration, MEP Documentation, and Energy Modeling; MEP/FP Design; and Structured Cabling Design services.

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Ink Block South End
Boston, MA

This multiple building mixed use complex is on the former Boston Herald site and includes three apartment, two condominium, and one micro-unit buildings. The campus also has parking, retailers like Whole Foods Market, an outdoor entertainment lounge, club room, and fitness center.

AHA provided MEP/FP Design, Structured Cabling Design, LEED Administration, LEED Energy Modeling, LEED MEP Documentation, and LEED Fundamental Commissioning services to support Ink Block’s commitment to environmental responsibility. One of the apartment buildings has a shared condenser water loop that uses the waste heat from the Whole Foods refrigeration system to heat up the circulating condenser water for an essentially self contained heating system. The plumbing design also reduced potable water use by 35%. Phase 1 won The American Architecture Prize Winner in Interior Design / Residential award.

All the residential (three apartment, two condominium, and 1 micro-unit) buildings have each achieved a LEED Gold rating.

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The Westminster Schools
Atlanta, GA

The school is undergoing significant campus upgrades as part of a strategic, multi-year plan focused on meeting growing needs and reducing carbon emissions. These include construction projects, facility upgrades, and retrofitting the main heating and cooling plant to enhance energy efficiency and support campus expansion. The first phase of the multi-phased retrofit, renovating the main plant is complete, while the second phase, the installation of a new power plant, will take place shortly.

AHA is providing MEP Commissioning services. These include providing comprehensive design reviews, construction oversight, and owner training. We are collaborating with the facilities staff to address challenges and ensure a smooth project turnover, optimizing system performance for long-term efficiency and sustainability.

University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

These two student resident hall buildings (Andy Holt and Beacon Hall Buildings 1 & 2) have nearly 2,000 beds in one and two-bedroom suites, and include staff offices, student lounge areas, common laundry facilities, common study areas, and community kitchens. Upon completion, the buildings experienced numerous post-construction Mechanical, Plumbing and Electrical issues.

AHA provided MEP Commissioning services.

Campus 244
Dunwoody, GA

This adaptive reuse of an existing three story office building created a 386,000 SF, five story office development by adding two floors. This modern workplace offers a flexible, open environment with large floorplates, upgraded infrastructure, terraces and breezeways, and a variety of tenant amenities. The project includes 106 parking spaces located beneath the building, along with conference and support spaces, a fitness center, and shower facilities, all designed to support a wide range of commercial office tenants.

AHA provided LEED Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning services.

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Carbice
Atlanta, GA

This 23,000 SF tenant inteior improvement serves as Carbice’s global headquarters and manufacturing facility. The headquarters portion accommodates administrative space, an employee locker room, and a break/lunchroom. The manufacturing space houses included special production gases, pressure-sensitive areas, along with compressed air for manufacturing and the R&D laboratory, and high-bay manufacturing space demand ventilation.

AHA provided LEED Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning, Fitwel Administration, LEED Administration, and LEED MEP Documentation, MEP/FP Design, and Technology Design services.

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Northland Newton Development
Newton, MA

The Northland Newton Development is converting an old industrial complex into a new vibrant 10 building mixed use development that will be the largest Passive House and all electric residential community, and site, in the country. The 22.6 acre, 1.1 million SF site will have 822, including 144 affordable, housing units, along with two retails buildings. The complex will include total underground parking, the conversion of a historic mill, underground utility lines, and a solar array.

AHA is providing LEED Administration, LEED Energy Modeling, LEED Enhanced Commissioning, LEED Fundamental Commissioning, LEED for Homes Commissioning for Energy Star, LEED MEP Documentation, Technology Design, MEP/FP Design, and TEDI, MEPA, and Code Compliant Energy Modeling services.

During the project planning phase, Northland Investment Corporation engaged AHA to provide Advisory services. We performed Utility and Technology Master Plans.

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212 Stuart
Boston, MA

This new 150,000 SF, 19-story building houses 126 one and two-bedroom apartments along with three-bedroom penthouses ranging from roughly 500 -2,100 SF. Two units are duplex types with entrance stoops accessed from the street. The project also includes a fully equipped gymnasium, bike storage, lounge, library, terrace, 19th floor outdoor patio, and high speed Internet access, among other amenities, along with access to 1,000 SF of first floor retail /restaurant space.

AHA provided Code Energy Modeling, Fundamental Commissioning, LEED Administration, LEED MEP Documentation, MEP/FP Design, Structured Cabling and Security Design services. The project was designed to LEED Gold NC certified equivalent

Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic
Zebulon, GA

This 59,000 SF single story new construction VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic includes imaging suites, optical, triage, counseling, examination, administrative, utility type spaces for public facilities, waiting, and equipment areas.

AHA provided Commissioning, Technology Design, and MEP/FP Design services. Our Technology Design included complete telecom and special systems design for the rack room layouts, cable tray, paging, nurse call, security, wireless access points, data and voice for the entire facility.

20-30 Acorn Park
Cambridge, MA

This new, 286,000 SF lab and office building completed the state of the art Cambridge Discovery Park campus. It has two 6 floor towers with continuous floor plates across floors 3-6. This unique carve out created a corridor for pedestrian and vehicular circulation from the campus’s parking garage and hotel required two distinct lobbies. The facility has a servery, kitchen, dining area, fitness center with locker rooms, and floor to ceiling windows. Tenants include Simcere, Kintai, Arbor Bio, and Fog Pharma.

AHA provided Code Compliant Energy Modeling, LEED Administration, LEED Energy Modeling, LEED Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning, LEED MEP Documentation, along with MEP/FP Design services.

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25/27 Blue Sky Drive
Burlington, MA

This new 265,000 SF, 3-story core& shell was divided into two buildings. 25 Blue Sky Drive (Phase 1) has a 46,000 SF footprint and an area of approxi-mately 130,000 SF. 27 Blue Sky Drive (Phase 2) has a footprint of 47,000 SF and is 135,000 SF. Both buildings have cGMP space on Level 1, lab/office & mechanical space on Level 2, and lab/office space on Level 3, with a mechanical penthouse above.

AHA provided LEED, WELL, and Fitwel Administration; LEED and WELL MEP Documentation; LEED Energy Modeling; LEED Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning; and MEP/FP Design services.

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Columbia Theological Seminary
Decatur, GA

The historic 1926 Simons-Law student residence hall was transformed into a state-of-the-art learning facility with classrooms, large lecture halls, bookstore, mailroom, offices, and study spaces. For this renovation and addition, the existing three-story structure was joined to a new one-story building. The addition includes two wings: one with three 75-seat class-rooms and the other with two 40-seat classrooms.

AHA provided MEP/FP Design, Energy Modeling, and Fundamental Commissioning services. The systems include site drainage that is routed from its current release strategy directly into the existing watershed. By utilizing a quality control feature, the drainage flows into an underground detention structure that gradually releases into a naturally landscaped ravine. Rain water collection occurs in a cistern for landscape irrigation.

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Jet Aviation
Bedford, MA

The new 40,000 SF fixed-based operations (FBO) addition, and new stand-alone 15,000 SF hangar which includes an office, reception area, explosion proof paint rooms, and maintenance shop are located in the commercial aviation section of the Hanscom Air Force Base and are overseen by Mass-Port.

AHA provided MEP/FP Design, Energy Modeling, and LEED Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning services on the two buildings. The design included an Aqueous Film Forming Foam fire suppression system.

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NCR World Headquarters
Atlanta, GA

This 700,000 SF corporate headquarters tenant interior improvement provides highly flexible work spaces with open offices, private offices, conference rooms, server rooms, and support spaces, specialized laboratories accommodate electromagnetic testing, semianechoic chamber with strict humidity limitations, an environmental chamber for equipment testing (with variable humidity control requirements) and product testing labs with fume hoods.

AHA provided LEED Energy Modeling and MEP Documentation LEED Fundamental, Enhanced, Measurement & Verification Commissioning and MEP/FP Design services for the two tenant improvement phases. Phase I received an Award of Merit for Interior/Tenant Improvement from ENR Southeast.

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Neponset Landing
Quincy, MA

This existing 344,600 SF, 12-story multi-family residential building contains 280 (luxury 1 & 2 bedroom) apartments. It offers an amenitized lifestyle with private media room, billiards room, lounge with entertaining kitchen, fitness center, dog park & pet spa, and outdoor setting on the water with dining and grilling stations.

AHA has provided LEED Administration, Retro-Commissioning, Energy Audit, and Energy Star services. Utilizing the Arc platform AHA guided Neponset Landing to achieve a Platinum certification level under the LEED Existing Buildings, Operations & Maintenance (EBOM) program. We were able to improve upon the Gold EBOM certification, obtained in 2018.

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Seven88 West Midtown
Atlanta, GA

The new Seven88 West Midtown condominiums is a 625,000 SF, 22 story mixed use development. It has 279 units on the top 18 levels over four lev-els, 350 car, of parking, with retail streetscape. The residential Amenities include a clubroom with demonstration kitchen, billiards, a lounge, coffee and refreshment bar, concierge service, a state-of-the-art fitness center with yoga studio. The streetscape features shops with a podium deck above including a gas fire pit, water features, a spa and pool, and several plazas. This high-rise condominium is the first of it’s kind in Atlanta’s West Midtown area.

AHA provided MEP/FP Design, Technology Design, Utility Incentive Assistance, and MEP Commissioning services.

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Shaw Create Center
Cartersville, GA

The new 67,000 SF Shaw Industries “Create Center” is adjacent to their manufacturing plant and houses the corporation’s marketing, design and innovation associates. The Create Center utilizes an open work space with no ceilings.

AHA provided MEP/FP Design, Technology Design, along with LEED Energy Modeling and MEP Documentation services. Our work allowed for the creation of a “smooth” distribution of ductwork, piping, and conduit. The design included roof top units with variable air volume distribution and LED lighting. These high efficiency systems contributed to the 20.7% reduction in energy usage as confirmed by our energy model.

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Southline Boston
Boston, MA

This core & shell repositioning project transformed the former The Boston Globe site transformed the three-story, once office/industrial building, into a 695,000 SF science & technology hub to stimulate growth in fields such as life science, medical, and high-tech companies. It includes 360,000 SF of office space and 300,000 SF of laboratory space, along with 35,000 SF of retail including a fitness center, a restaurant, and a micro craft brewery.

AHA provided MEP/FP Design, LEED MEP Documentation, LEED Energy Modeling, Fundamental Commissioning, Tel/Data and Security Design, along with Smoke Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling services.

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University of Richmond Boiler Plant Upgrade
Richmond, VA

The University’s existing Boiler Plant suffered from years of deferred maintenance that caused it to produce steam inefficiently for campus wide heating. The renovation upgraded the plant to high-efficiency boilers and modernized its distribution, equipment, and controls. These resulted in immediate reduction of carbon emissions.

AHA provided MEP/FP Design, MEP Commissioning, and Laser Point Cloud Scanning services, while serving as prime consultant. During the project planning phases, the University of Richmond engaged AHA to provide Advisory services. We performed a Facility Condition Assessment.