Description
The P-1132 CIS Project design and construction of a new Communications Information System (CIS) Operations Complex across three separate sites: 12 Area, 24 Area, and 27 Area, with the majority of the work being performed at the 12 Area. This $79-million, ground-up, masonry federal project is a four-building campus that includes a headquarters for mission-control and emergency operations and tactical data centers, a cable supply warehouse and two critical communications nodes for real-time situational awareness, decision making and command. The design-build project includes highly advanced antiterrorism projection features that encompass all aspects of physical and cyber security. In addition to storage, the cable supply warehouse contains critical radio systems and communications-equipment facilities for the first- responder operations, vehicles and equipment. In all, the two story, 79,000-sq-ft campus marks the first time a federal project has incorporate such a large data pod and complex data system.
The campus incorporates more than six miles of underground utilities and outside plant infrastructure that extends along the sites. The LEED Silver project underwent a one-year design process in which dozens of engineers and experts collaborated to create a first-of-its-kind facility. The project team interviewed individuals from each campus user group during design and asked them to describe real-world scenarios and features they would require from the campus’ numerous spaces.
The project team used Virtual Reality (VR) to model the architect’s and MEP designer’s 3D renderings and kept the VR equipment onsite trailer easily accessible to trade partners and end-users to identify tissues so that the team could correct or mitigate them. For example, a maintenance technician noted that the working space around a piece of mechanical equipment did not allow for the oversized wrench than was needed for the maintenance of that equipment. Using the VR, the maintenance technician was able to visually walk through the mechanical room and see real dimensions and clearances, noting a needed change. Standard 2D drawings would not have revealed the problem and might have resulted in rework.
To meet net-zero-energy requirements, team members installed a micro grid that incorporates off-grid and grid-connected renewables, prompting facilities and systems interconnection development. Material and colors for the complex conform with Camp Pendleton’s other structures and include a standing-seam metal roof and colored split-face concrete block arranged in horizontal colored bands.
Client
NAVFAC Southwest
Location
Camp Pendleton, California
Period of Performance
2015-2019
Contract Value
$70M