The Owner’s stated goal was to retrofit a new development cleanroom into their existing campus and increase utility capacity to support ongoing increases demanded by new tooling and processes added in research and development. The second, and equally important goal, was to reduce the construction cost from an estimated $70 million to $40 million while maintaining cleanroom size, class, and still providing the same capacity increases to the utilities.

Glumac creatively met these challenges by partnering with the Owner and the site General contractor to work off of a common cost estimate, Value Engineer the former program, evaluate the short and long term utility matrix needs, streamline system and equipment redundancies, and reposition almost all major equipment upgrades in a more cost effective manner.

Glumac was the prime AE consultant and provided project management and design coordination, MEP engineering. Local architectural, civil and structural engineering was sub-consulted and incorporated into the team seamlessly for the Owner.

Glumac and the Owner collectively met the staffing challenge of the project by collaboration both locally to the site and remotely:

• Owner: on site and drawing on staff in California, Arizona, and Texas
• Glumac: on site, and drawing on staff in Silicon Valley, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle

Scope Included:

• Class 10 cleanroom retrofit into an existing office building
• New cooling plant and heating plant
• Upgrade of existing condenser water plant
• New OFA/HPOFA plant
• New cleanroom grade make up air for two fabs
• Innovative FFU with- perimeter cooling coil scheme
• New campus site power feed and substations
• Power distribution and two emergency power generators, SAG and UPS
• Validate and rebalance site campus power loads thru 29 load models
• Perform Computational Flow Dynamics to validate cleanroom laminarity