JonesDBR is pleased to be working with Gensler and Turner Ramirez Architects on the Southside Campus design for Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Designed to be built on a 96-acre tract at Rodd Field Road and Yorktown Boulevard, the new campus will enable the College to expand signature programs such as architecture, engineering, biotechnology, and culinary arts with state-of-the-art facilities. The design also includes facilities to teach basic core courses needed by transfer students, as well as developmental education, dual credit, workforce, and continuing education programs.
Phase I includes over 280,000 sf of facilities to include a Main Building & Library, STEM Building, Culinary Institute, and a Central Plant, in addition to 1200 parking spaces.
The Central Plant chilled water system consisted of centrifugal water-cooled chillers with heat recovery for space heating, reheat, and dehumidification. The heating water system consisted of fully condensing high-mass firetube boilers. In order to the maximize boiler efficiency and the heat recovery from the chillers, the hot water loop was designed with a low supply water temperature.
The Culinary Institute utilized kitchen demand control ventilation and kitchen hoods with tempered make-up. In the laboratory of the STEM Building, venturi valves for airflow control were provided to vary the supply/exhaust airflows and maintain pressurization. Both of these strategies reduce air conditioning and fan motor energy. Further energy savings was accomplished by routing the general exhaust of the laboratory through a cross-flow enthalpy plate heat exchanger to reduce the load on the outside air serving the laboratory.