This 35,000-square-foot maintenance facility with training and administration areas is the highest LEED Gold rated project at the base, as well as the highest Gold rated building of its type in the country. Belay Architecture worked with Bristol Design Build Services LLC on this design-build project that was contracted by the Army Corps of Engineers.
A system that added to the structure’s sustainability is InSpire by ATAS International Inc. InSpire is a transpired solar collector that preheats air before it enters a building, lowering energy consumption and decreasing utility bills. InSpire typically is installed on a south-facing wall to maximize sun exposure. The sun’s rays hit the metal wall panels heating the surface, which in turn creates solar-heated air. Ventilation fans at the top of the wall draw this heated air through perforations in the panels and into a cavity behind the collector. The air is then passed into conventional ductwork in the building’s ventilation system.
TEMF features 4,500 square feet of InSpire (BWS390) 0.032-inch aluminum panels in Black. The system was combined with an in-floor radiant heating system in the shop to provide greater comfort, optimize performance and improve indoor air quality.
“I was excited by the simplicity of InSpire,” says Cindy O’Neill, quality control manager with Bristol Design Build Services. “It is such a basic technology, easy to install and relatively inexpensive. But it helped us beat the ASHRAE 90.1-2004 baseline energy consumption for this type of building by 41.2 percent.”
The project also features an OptiLiner high-performance insulation system from Owens Corning, and distributed by Therm-All Inc. The metal building system is from Varco Pruden, and was built by CHG Building Systems Inc.
Owner: Army Corps of Engineers
Design-builder: Bristol Design Build Services LLC, Anchorage, Alaska
Builder: CHG Building Systems Inc., Renton, Wash.
Architect: Belay Architecture, Tacoma, Wash.
Insulation system distributor: Therm-All Inc., Kent, Wash.
Insulation system: Owens Corning, Toledo, Ohio, www.owenscorning.com
Metal building system: Varco Pruden Buildings, Memphis, Tenn., www.vp.com
InSpire solar collector: ATAS International Inc., Allentown, Pa., www.atas.com