West Virginia Executive Spring/Summer 2020 | Page 69

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102 Leeway Street, Morgantown, WV 26505
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Dominion Energy Transmission Headquarters in Bridgeport, WV.
David Simpson, PE, SECB, MBA, established
Allegheny Design Services (ADS) in 2002 in
response to the region’s lack of local structural
engineering design access. Over the past 18
years, he has built a small, agile team of native
West Virginians who provide structural and
mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP)
engineering services on a variety of projects,
including sports and recreation, health care,
higher education, industrial, K-12, government,
office and commercial buildings.
More than 80 percent of ADS clients are
repeat customers, and some of its noteworthy
patrons include West Virginia University
(WVU), Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Mon General
Hospital and many area architects. The
ADS staff is particularly proud of its work on
Dominion Energy Transmission Inc.’s office
building in Bridgeport, WV.
“We’ve designed dozens of buildings in the
region, but this was a great project because it
was a design-build done in conjunction with
March-Westin as the general contractor and
The Thrasher Group as the architect,” says
Simpson. “We performed the structural and
MEP system designs. This project is a prime
example of why ADS was established. A local
design and construction team was instrumental
in delivering the project on schedule
and on budget. Our employees are all West
Virginia natives, with engineering graduates
from WVU and West Virginia Tech’s Montgomery
campus. Our team gets a sense of
pride from helping improve our community.”
The plan for the 106,000-square-foot, fourstory
office building, located in the White
Oaks Office Park, included high-efficiency
packaged DX rooftop equipment, VAV units
with hot water heat from a modular condensing
boiler system, a precision cooling
server room air conditioning system and
water conserving plumbing fixtures.
The $35 million project also came with
unique challenges in meeting Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED,
standards, which measure a building’s sustainability
and resource efficiency. Upon
completion, the Dominion building was the
first privately owned LEED Gold certified
project in West Virginia.
“I was in charge of the mechanical and
plumbing design for this project,” says
Project Manager David Cotton, PE, LEED
AP. “This project had some unique energy
goals to meet the LEED certification. It has
a high-efficiency HVAC system, comfort
controls, increased ventilation and outside
air monitoring. It also has a high-efficiency
condensing central boiler system for heating,
and the air conditioning is provided by a
central rooftop mounted unit with variable
compressors, multiple compressor circuits
and variable speed fans. On the plumbing
side, there are natural gas condensing water
heaters that provide the hot water for the
building, and the plumbing fixtures are high
efficiency, low flow to reduce water usage.”
MEP Department Manager Mike Chancey,
PE, LEED AP, served as the project’s electrical
engineer of record.
“I was part of anything that had a wire
connected to it,” he says. “In terms of the
lighting and power, we designed using LED
lighting and lighting controls like occupancy
sensors and ensured there was only so
much wattage per square foot of the building
to meet the LEED standards. The sheer
size of the building coupled with the LEED
certification shows that we have the background
and expertise for projects like this.
I’m proud to say I was a part of it.”
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