UCSD Theatre District Project
Heading over to the top 15th research university in the world, the University of California San Diego is expanding their student housing. This project will construct five buildings with a total of 76 floors on 11.8 acres. The project produces 913,000 square feet of student housing spaces. A 509,000 square-foot underground parking structure will also be included onto the project. This LEED certified, design build project awarded A.O. Reed the mechanical and plumbing scopes. The client’s vision is to provide a safe and healthy environment for the UCSD students to succeed. The university also wants to provide affordable housing to students and reduce traffic in the surrounding area.
Over the past couple months, the once vacant parking lot has transformed to a bustling jobsite. A.O. Reed is responsible for connecting the mechanical systems heat source from the UCSD HTHW loop for high temperature hot water. This source is converted by heat exchangers for comfort heating and domestic hot water. Our team is also responsible for supplying all comfort heating and AC to the project. Our plumbing scope includes underground to showers, 1,000 bathroom sinks, 542 toilets, 183 kitchen sinks, 542 showers, and 3,000 angle stops. We have also installed 60,000 feet of PEX piping in the residential units. The project also has 71 floors of trimble layout. On the sheet metal side, we have installed 171 EF fans, 94 supply fans, 4 AHUs, 39 jet fans, and 69 VAV’s. Over 150 fire smoke dampers were also installed. Moving onto the piping scope of work, A.O. Reed didn’t miss a beat. We installed 1,642 radiant heating panels, 2 high temp heat exchangers, 10 medium temp heat exchangers, 10 medium temp pumps, and 10 chilled water pumps. Throughout the building, our team installed 21,000 feet of vertical riser piping and 4,000 feet of underground welded pipe. The scope of work also includes 4 AHUs, 70 refrigeration systems, and 3,364 pre-bent branch lines to the heaters. The project has a total of 7 mechanical rooms. In the parking garage, we installed over 5,000 feet of PVC underground pipe along with two sump tanks.
A.O. Reed is not only working hard, but we are having fun! On April 22nd, A.O. Reed hosted a barbeque at the UCSD Theatre District project. After KCI’s announcement of a spring potluck, Scott Jones had a great idea. Why not get our A.O. Reed smoker out to the UCSD project site. Between the hard work and coordination from Steve Royal and Ken Pickett, this idea became a reality. Cooks Aaron Claret, Jonathon Brown, and Bobby Weller came onsite in the early morning to prepare and cook the items for a barbeque. A huge thank you to UCSD and Kitchell Contractors for allowing us to host a delicious barbeque onsite!
