Dental Clinic Renovation – Greater New Bedford Community Health

Ron was the Mechanical engineer for the renovation of existing dental exam and operatories and the expansion for new exam rooms. The renovation was to expand the current dental suite to provide additional exam rooms for a growing patient base. Clinical spaces included clean and soiled utility rooms, exam rooms, training rooms and student shared offices. Existing HVAC and plumbing systems systems were reconfigured to meet the new program space.

Cleanroom Conversion – Confidential Client

Serving as the Mechanical engineer for the fit out of an existing 9000 square foot shell space to be converted into a cleanroom, Ron was responsible for the mechanical design sizing and selection of a make-up air unit, air-cooled chiller, sensible cooling coils to account for space loads, gas-fired humidifier, and pumps with piping specialties. The cleanroom area included ISO 7 and ISO 8 clean spaces that had both positive and negative pressure requirements to adjacent rooms. The plumbing design included a reverse osmosis system and process piping for multiple process gas systems.

York County Community College Addition – Sanford Maine Campus

Ron was the mechanical engineer for the 10,000 sq ft addition to an existing building. The new addition included a welding classroom, pipe fitting classroom, virtual welding classroom, and two teaching classrooms. The design included a dust collection system, ventilation and exhaust systems for the welding classroom. The remaining classrooms were designed to have a variable refrigerant volume system and dedicated outside air unit. Plumbing included restrooms connected to the existing building plumbing infrastructure and specialty gas piping for the welding lab.

Steam Boiler Plant Replacement – Pratt and Whitney

As mechanical engineer for the replacement of the boiler plant at Pratt and Whitney, Ron’s responsibility was to design the piping layout and pipe sizing. The design also included selection of the steam and condensate specialties. The boiler plant consisted of two new 400 HP boilers, surge tank, and deaerator.

Acute Care (COVID-19) Facility – Westchester County

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Ron was the mechanical engineer for the transformation of the Westchester County Center and its adjacent parking area into an Emergency Medical Treatment facility for 110 patients suffering from COVID-19. Ron designed all necessary HVAC and exhaust needed to provide negative air pressure to the treatment rooms. Inside the facility, four Treatment Pods or wings were installed on the arena basketball court. All Pods were fitted out with necessary clinical spaces such as a Nurses Station, Med Room, Nourishment Area, Nurses Lounge, and storage for linen. Four additional pods with all the above spaces were installed in tents in the arena parking area. Each of the four tents could provide treatment space for 14 patients, bringing the total patient count to 110.

Ambulatory Surgical Care – Signature Health Brockton

Ron was the mechanical engineer for the renovation of an existing imaging suite inside the hospital into an outpatient surgical care center. The new program for the space included pre- and post-operatory areas, two operating rooms, waiting area, and other support spaces. The design included a new air handler to serve the two operating rooms and an existing packaged rooftop unit was replaced with a new unit to serve the pre- and post-operatory areas and support spaces. Cooling redundancy was provided in the operating room air handler by providing a chilled water coil that was fed from the central chiller plant and a DX refrigerant coil fed from a new condensing unit. Humidification was provided using steam from the central boiler plant. Medical gases and vacuum were designed and connected to existing services.