Community Redevelopment
PS 281M
PS/IS 281M is the new school that has been incorporated into the East River Residential Development. This school, accommodating 612 local students will service children from Pre-K through 8th grade and have dedicated spaces for children with special needs. Accommodations were made to best utilize the exciting, newly developed space surrounding the school, while still maintaining a focus on the most effective learning environment for the students. The construction of this school also presented with many challenges that had to be overcome to incorporate this school structure into the existing community such as modifications to mechanical plans to account for noise of equipment. DVL Consulting Engineers, Inc. provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection design services for the building and played a critical role in making the changes and modification necessary to make this challenging project a success.
PS 342M
DVL is currently providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering design services for a new public school to be nestled within this new development on the West Side of Manhattan. The plan for this underutilized portion of the city is to create mixed use structures including both residential and commercial spaces and a new school building for the local children. The new school will be an 85,000 sq.ft. facility built within a 43 story building following the program and design requirements approved by the New York City School Construction Authority.
PS 464M
DVL Consulting Engineers, Inc. was the Engineer of Record for the PS 464M project. The PS 464M school was constructed to occupy the lowest nine floors of a 40 story high rise building in Manhattan. Given the mixed usage of the building, constant, focused coordination was necessary with the Developer’s team to ensure that utilities provided for at the onset of construction are appropriate for both the residential, retail spaces and the school.
Hunters Point North
The Hunters Point North Development-PS/IS 312Q project involved a full scale development including a proposed 40 story residential tower, parking facility and new park and playing field overlooking the East River in Queens, NY. The school includes a gymnasium, 300 seat auditorium, cafeteria, science, art and music rooms and will be home to students grade K through 8. DVL Consulting Engineers, Inc. provided design services for all MEP systems for the school and coordination with residential developer to ensure the two mechanical systems and incoming utilities worked in harmony, given the contiguous nature of the main two structures.
Community Redevelopment
The 26 Broadway project consists of three different schools designed to occupy several leased spaces within a 32 story high rise office building located in the area near Wall Street in New York City. The first school designed was the Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women, which occupies three floors of the building. The space was modified with new mechanical systems to provide for general heating, ventilation and air conditioning requirements and accommodate new facilities such as science laboratories and locker rooms. New energy efficient lighting fixtures were provided for the school as well as a variety of electrical systems, including a local access network, intercommunication and television distribution systems, video surveillance and fire alarm systems. Plumbing systems were modified or extended and new systems were also designed to accommodate the new student population. In a similar fashion two other schools were created within this existing facility, including one which was renovated from a museum.
Full gut rehabilitation of a six story high rise building formerly occupied by the New York State Court System. DVL Consulting Engineers, Inc. was the Design Engineer for HVAC, electrical, fire protection and plumbing systems for a $65,000,000 project. The HVAC system for this facility needed to be specialized to accommodate the very low slab to slab distances. The innovative HVAC design employed central rooftop HVAC units, and dual temperature, floor mounted, fan coil units within each space. Chilled water to fan coil units was obtained from a roofmounted, modular, air cooled chiller. This very special adaptation to the existing structure required that a new floor be added to house a new gymnasium with an interstitial space between the existing roof and the floor of the new gymnasium floor. The interstitial space accommodated mechanical equipment for the project. Intensive coordination and acoustical calculations were performed to ensure the HVAC system met the noise criteria in each space. All new incoming utilities and services were provided for this project.
The PS-347X is a standalone five story primary school with a total area of the building is 50,000 sq. ft. Key features include being located adjacent to an elevated track of the NYC Subway System and structural system being all concrete poured with prefabricated exterior wall assemblies. The HVAC design consisted of air cooled modular chillers for cooling and gas fired condensing type boilers for heating; air systems consisted of roof top variable air volume units for service of classrooms and constant air volume units for service of assembly spaces (cafeteria and exercise areas).
DVL Consulting Engineers, Inc. provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering services for the creation of this new charter school. This new five-story, 125,000 sq. ft. school was created as part of the Harlem Children’s Zone initiative to provide quality education for children in Harlem from Preschool to High School and to offer resources to the community. Promise Academy offers an extended school year and school day, additional academic assistance and extensive extracurricular activities. Harlem Children’s Zone is also open 24 hours a day to provide family assistance including Health Clinic to serve the community.
DVL Consulting Engineers, Inc. provided engineering services for the this brand new school building being incorporated into the Petrides School Campus in Staten Island, NY. DVL provided all mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection design engineering for this new 51,000 sq. ft. school designed on the lot of the previous school’s annex building.
The Mayor of NYC’s Universal Pre-K Initiative led to the creation of several new school spaces intended to provide preschool education for all children throughout New York City. DVL provided MEP/FP engineering to modify existing spaces to create these new schools, many of which required significant modifications to leased floors in high rise buildings. These projects required significant coordination and strategic efforts to maintain progress to meet strict schedule requirements. The following Pre-Ks were created as part of this initiative: PS 695K, PS 77R, PS 66R, Kew Gardens PreK, Regina Pacis PreK
Simultaneous design and construction of one of the largest school campuses in the history of the NYC School Construction Authority. The project consists of three (3) schools: Two (2) intermediate schools (PS/IS 208 and PS/IS 266) and one (1) High School for the Teaching Professions. The project consists of approximately 450,000 square feet of educational space. DVL is providing full HVAC, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems design and construction services for a design builder. The project also includes full site lighting design coordinated to compliment the aesthetics of the neighborhood and the site.