In the heart of New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter, the former Maison Blanche Department store underwent a massive renovation and restoration to become an 87-unit residential property. GSE partnered with John C. Williams Architects, LLC, to provide mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection design for the 5-story building, including a new level for parking between the existing 1st and 2nd floors and a new penthouse level.
Service: Mechanical Engineering
Mobile Container Terminals
GSE partnered with Han Padron and Associates (HPA) to design the 100-acre container port on a prepared site. GSE’s project scope included the design of all site utilities (water, sewer, stormwater, electrical, and fire water), administration and maintenance buildings, assorted site structures, site lighting, fire protection design, and construction assistance. GSE oversaw all communication with local governmental agencies and utilities.
Oceaneering
Oceaneering provides engineered services and products primarily to the offshore energy industry and focuses on deepwater applications. GSE provided planning, design, and construction supervision for a new undersea pipe umbilical facility built on a brownfield site. The project’s scope included renovating a 165,000-square-foot manufacturing space with two 50,000-square-foot circular buildings designed to spool pipe umbilicals. Detailed design included the manufacturing facility, spooling building, guard building, and gate. Site and utility design included grading, paving, storm drainage, fire water, domestic water, sewage, electrical, and communication lines.
Temporary Inmate Housing
The Templeman III and IV jails were demolished in 2007 due to damage sustained from Hurricane Katrina. GSE provided a complete engineering design for phase II of the new Correctional Complex Plan, a 500-bed inmate housing facility built in New Orleans, LA, funded by FEMA. The 40,000-square-foot medium security facility consisted of four identical inmate buildings, a two-story visitation and staff building, and outside recreational areas. Scope of work included project management of the civil design and survey coordination along with structural, fire protection, electrical and mechanical engineering design.
NASA Area 47/48
GSE designed modifications to Building 103, a 45,000-square-foot facility in Area 47/48, to allow the transition from External Tank manufacturing to Space Launch Systems (SLS) manufacturing. Area 47/48 will be used to integrate SLS core stage sub-assemblies, including liquid hydrogen tanks, engine sections, intertanks, liquid oxygen tanks, and forward skirts. In addition to the final integration of the above-listed sub-assemblies, Building 103 will also house the installation of engines, feedline and press lines, systems tunnels with applicable wiring, and final testing and systems checkout. GSE provided structural, mechanical, electrical and fire protection design services for the renovated facility.
Community Safe Room
GSE provided complete engineering services for the community and recreation center planned for construction at Gay-Lemon Park in Ocean Springs, MS. The ten-acre site houses soccer and baseball fields. The scope of work included structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, and fire protection design for the 18,000-square-foot facility. To ensure the facility could serve as a storm shelter, GSE designed the building to withstand 200 mph winds in accordance with FEMA 361.
University of South Alabama
GSE was responsible for mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering design for a 25,000-square-foot renovation of the existing engineering lab building at USA. The design included the plumbing design for a wave pool that researchers will use to study wave action in coastal regions. Revisions and additions to the existing HVAC were required, including the chilled/hot water loops and controls. GSE also provided the fire alarm design for the project. Plumbing design included routing plumbing water from an adjacent building. Additionally, GSE provided the mechanical and electrical design of the 3,000-square-foot Intramural fieldhouse and the Marx Library.
Columbia Southern University
GSE partnered with McCollough Architecture, located in Baldwin County, to provide mechanical, electrical and fire protection design for the 3-story headquarters of Columbia Southern University. The 67,000-square-foot building houses offices, classrooms, and meeting rooms.
Phillips Preparatory School
GSE partnered with Forrest Daniell & Associates to provide mechanical, plumbing, electrical and structural design for the renovation of Phillips Preparatory School, with a construction budget of $7.6 million. Phillips was initially constructed in 1954. GSE’s scope of work included the design of a new cafeteria, kitchen, gymnasium and classrooms, as well as a complete mechanical upgrade of the air conditioning and central heating units, plumbing, roofs, security doors and technology infrastructure.
Cedar Lake Oncology
This 10,000-square-foot outpatient oncology center provides care for patients throughout the Mississippi Gulf Coast. GSE provided this facility’s civil site, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection design. Services site utilities, paving and grading, drainage design, shallow foundations, lighting controls, fire alarm, deep foundations, HVAC systems, panel boards, data/telecom, low voltage, medical gas, transformers and a hazardous exhaust system.
