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Axiom Engineers: Commissioning

WEST VALLEY COLLEGE CAMPUS CENTERS - Saratoga, CA LEED Commissioning

This LEED project includes Fundamental Commissioning on a completely remodeled campus center. The campus center includes offices, classrooms, multi-media rooms, kitchen, game room, and conference rooms.
The ventilation system includes five rooftop packaged air handler units, numerous variable air volume boxes with heating coils, and dedicated computer room split system air conditioning units.
Building cooling is provided by a water-cooled chiller and cooling coils in the packaged rooftop air handler units.
A cooling tower provides heat rejection for the water cooled chiller.
Building heating is provided by a boiler and heating coils in the packaged rooftop units and the variable air volume boxes. Occupancy sensors were utilized throughout the building to minimize electrical energy usage.
During the initial design reviews several improvements were made to the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning sequence of operations to maximize supply air temperature reset controls and reduction of system use when portions of the building are opened to the outside.


Project Summary


• 39,000 sq. ft.
• 15 Variable air volume boxes with heating coils
• Interior lighting on controls utilizing occupancy sensors
• High efficiency rooftop air handler with water cooled chiller and cooling tower
• Complex controls to disable portions of the air handling system when portions of the building are opened to the outside.

Project Accomplishments


• Found numerous improvements to the mechanical controls sequence of operation for maximum use of reset strategies
• Provided reviews and improvements recommendations for the Owner Project Requirements and Basis of Design

Selected Projects


LEED® 2.0 Commercial Interiors
LEED® 2.2 New Construction
LEED® Existing Buildings: Portola Hotel & Spa
CSUMB Dining Commons
Caldecott Bore 4 Tunnel
Doyle Dr. and Highways 101 and 1 Tunnel
East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library
Live Oak Community Resources Center
Monterey Peninsula College, Student Center
Naval Postgraduate School, Boiler Replacement
Nordic Naturals
Presidio of Monterey
Vandenberg Air Force Base
West Valley College Campus Centers