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NIEHS:
EPA Central Utility Complex Overview
F. Mitchell Williams,
P.E., NIEHS
Abstract:
The National Institutes of Health and the forerunner to the Environmental
Protection Agency have developed a 509 acre site originally deeded
in 1965 as the U.S. Public Health Service Research Park. A site
Master Plan developed in 1970 provided for a National Environmental
Health Sciences Center for the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS), an Air Pollution Control Office for the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and centralized support
facilities. The two agencies have generally followed the concepts
of this original master plan with the NIEHS completing construction
of its research facility and the first phase of the central support
facilities in 1980 and adding a significant laboratory addition
and associated utility plant expansion in 1996, and with the addition
of the EPA Research and Administration facility and its National
Computer Center and an expansion of the central utility plant completion
occurring in 2002.
The NIEHS - EPA Campus central utility complex consists of a master
electrical substation with primary switchhouse, a central utility
plant providing the campus cooling needs through a site chilled
water system and its heating needs through a site high temperature
hot water system, a central incineration plant, a hazardous waste
storage and handling facility, as well as the NIEHS' engineering
support and central warehouse facility. The joint occupancy of
the campus by the two separate agencies recently has involved the
integration of expansions of these central support facilities,
including:
- increase of the master substation electrical capacity with
the installation of dual 30/40/50 MVA transformers;
- expansion of the campus chilled water system capacity to 19,000
tons of refrigeration;
- expansion of the campus high temperature hot water (HTHW) system
heating capacity to 200 MBH;
- expansion of the centralized hazardous waste storage and handling
facility;
- installation of a new medical-pathological waste incinerator;
and,
- operation of these central support facilities through interagency
agreements covering operation and maintenance of the central
utility complex by the NIEHS, the allocation of franchised utility
costs between the agencies, and use of the hazardous waste storage
and handling and joint incineration facilities.
Biography:
F. Mitchell Williams,
P.E. has a B.S. in mechanical engineering and mechanics from Old
Dominion University, and is registered as a professional engineer
in the State of North Carolina. He has worked as a mechanical engineer
and supervisory facilities management engineer with the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the
National Institutes of Health. He has 14 years of experience in
the design and construction of biomedical research laboratory facilities
and campus-type central utility systems, and as.
Mr. Williams is currently employed by the NIEHS as the Chief,
Contracts Management Section, Facilities Engineering Branch. His
section is responsible for contracting and administering facility
services for the NIEHS including: physical security; operation
and maintenance of its central utility plant; grounds maintenance;
janitorial; and, maintenance and repair of facility-related equipment.
He serves on the U.S. Public Health Services' (USPHS) Engineers
Professional Advisory Committee charged with providing advice and
consultation to the Chief Engineer, USPHS, and the Surgeon General
on matters relating to the professional activities and personnel
issues affecting PHS engineers and architects, and is in his third
year as chair of the Mentoring Subcommittee.
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