Maintaining and improving academic facilities—administrative buildings, utilities, underground networks, water and wastewater systems, and world-class research & development facilities—remains one of the most challenging tasks for all institutional administrators. Today’s educational, medical, and other institutions are subject to many of the same facility, infrastructure, environmental, and economic pressures as public and industrial facilities. However, these institutions often face even greater scrutiny because of perceived public health or safety concerns to vulnerable populations, including students and medical patients, as well as complex state and local building codes and enhanced scrutiny by federal and state environmental agencies.
CDM works closely with our clients to meet their diverse needs—economically, responsively, and in compliance with all codes and regulations, while achieving the project’s objectives, budget, and schedule. Of course, we also make sure that project decisions and material selections are balanced with more pragmatic factors like cost, durability, maintainability, vandal and corrosion resistance, safety, security, and consistency, delivering sustainable and practical project solutions. We provide value engineering through energy evaluations, cost estimating, equipment procurement strategies, instrumentation & controls analyses, power generation systems evaluations, and construction and operations needs assessments. Our planning, design, construction, and related services include:
Architectural - programming, space planning, design, value engineering, renovation/rehabilitation/expansion, interior design, and LEED® certification
Electrical - power distribution, communications, life safety systems, lighting and security systems, data processing power supplies, equipment fit-up, and energy conservation
Instrumentation and Control - HVAC systems, environmental process systems, software development, control systems programming
Structural - foundations, framing, wind/earthquake, vibration analysis, investigations and inspections, special equipment
Mechanical - heating, ventilation, air conditioning, clean room systems, data processing installations, fire protection, plumbing and drainage, air compressor systems, energy conservation and management
Industrial Engineering - facility layout, process flow diagrams
LEED Services - design, certification