Contra Costa County, Emergency Operations Center & Public Safety Building

3QC performed LEED Fundamental and LEED Enhanced Commissioning for the two new facilities for Contra Costa County. The first facility is a new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Public Safety Building (PSB). The Sheriff’s administrative offices and centralize field operations with administration and emergency services division will be relocated to this new facility. The new 38,000 SF facility will be an assembly of three components that will house Sheriff training and awards programs, the Sheriff’s Administration building, and Emergency Operations. This EOC/PSB is an essential services structure and seismically separated from the abutting Sheriff’s Administration building.

3QC provided commissioning and verification of the both the typical MEP, HVAC and control systems, as well as the Critical Infrastructure systems. We commissioned the emergency power, security and communications systems to verify building operation during a potential emergency event.

In addition to providing LEED Enhanced Commissioning, in support of this LEED certification goal, the design review services include an emphasis on building enclosure. This process not only identified weaknesses in the installed enclosure systems but also created a more energy efficient and healthy building environment.

3QC provided significant value to the owner through technical leadership and collaboration with the Design-Build team. Helping to balance the Owner’s Project Requirements with the contractor’s value engineering process, 3QC assisted by proposing engineering and systems control strategies to balance the projects’ competing priorities. This included a significant collaborative effort with final development of control strategies for a two-pipe heating/cooling infrastructure, providing a cost-effective, energy-efficient and maintainable system. This project achieved LEED Gold certification.

Photo credit: Kyle Jeffers Photography