FDA Research Center White Oak ESPC
Client: Honeywell Building Solutions
Completion Date: 2013
Location: Silver Spring, Md.
Summary
Burns & McDonnell provided third-party, independent retro-commissioning services for the previously completed $70 million central utility plant expansion at the General Services Administration-owned Food & Drug Administration Research Center White Oak.
Honeywell implemented Phase II of an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) per the Department of Energy energy efficiency program, which consisted of a major expansion to the existing central utilities plant serving the Food and Drug Administration campus. Major equipment installed under this expansion included four 4.5-MW natural gas combustion turbine generators with heat recovery boilers, one 2,000-ton absorption chiller, three 2,000-ton electric centrifugal chillers and all auxiliary equipment required to support the expansion. The expansion also included the addition of a balance-of-plant control system for system integration and automatic control.
To confirm operational performance for the ESPC, Burns & McDonnell performed a comprehensive retro-commissioning of the newly installed equipment. Scope included these systems:
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Emergency power
- BAS
Services
- Retro-commissioning
- Warranty and operation-phase commissioning
- Commissioning plan
- Equipment checklists
- Vendor review and documentation coordination
- OPR and BOD review
- Corrective issues log
- Commissioning meeting leadership
- Pre-functional startup tests
- Functional performance tests
- Functional test witnessing
- Test and balance verification
- Operation and maintenance manuals
- As-built review
- Commissioning report
