Contra Costa County Emergency Operations Center / Public Safety Building & Administration Building

3QC is performing Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning for 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.

Our Building Enclosure Commissioning scope of work includes performing building enclosure systems design review, development of an ASTM E2813 water testing plan including AAMA standards, development of specification language, back-check of bid documents, attending pre-installation meetings, performing site observations, witnessing of contractor-performed roof flood testing and water-spray testing. We are also maintaining a master issues log, performing a final punch list walk, and developing a final report.

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.