Airbus Military NA (previously CASA NA) needed a maintenance repair and overhaul facility in North America to service its customers in the Western Hemisphere. The project included a 29,500-square-foot hangar and office building. The work was completed as a design/build project with Dunn Building Company. This award-winning structure came in on time and under budget. GSE provided all design services for the project, including civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, life safety and fire protection.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GSE partnered with ANF Architects to provide engineering design for various Chili’s restaurants. New restaurants opened in the following cities: Auburn, Madison, Mobile, Fultondale, Decatur, Gadsden, and Montgomery, AL, and also in Madison, MS. Each restaurant was a 5,500-square-foot new prototype restaurant for Chili’s. GSE’s scope of work included structural, mechanical, electrical, civil site and fire protection design. Services included master planning, shallow foundations, HVAC systems, plumbing, drainage design, fire alarm, data/telecom, low voltage, grading and paving, lighting controls, load-bearing masonry and load-bearing timber.
GSE provided engineering services for multiple Walk-On’s locations in recent years, helping this once-local restaurant grow into a multi-state chain. Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical and Fire Protection design services were provided for the Site Plan Development. Other services included stormwater modeling, site utilities, ventilation systems, shallow foundations, steel framing, HVAC systems, medium voltage, fire alarm, plumbing, lighting control and data/telecom. A specialized HVAC design was also provided for a porch area with roll-up garage doors.
The Lighthouse Resort is an oceanfront condominium located on the beaches of Gulf Shores, AL. GSE’s scope of work included mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection design for this 25-story multi-family resort. Services included HVAC systems, ventilation systems, plumbing, low voltage, lighting controls, fire alarm, bid assistance, panel boards, fire pumps, transformers, data/telecom, water supply, construction inspections, lightning protection and stairwell pressurization.
GSE provided complete engineering services for Bilstein’s first mill constructed outside of Germany. Built on a 61-acre Greenfield site, the facility is strategically located to serve the region’s growing automotive industry. Detailed design for Phase 1 of the facility included a cold rolling mill, eight batch annealing bases and a high-speed slitting line with a 52-foot-deep looping pit, main steel processing facility with adjacent driveways and access, separate access points for truck/employee/visitor traffic, stormwater collection and detention facilities, and planning for a future rail spur. Site and utility design included grading, paving, storm drainage, fire water, domestic water, sewage, electrical, communication lines, rail spur design, and handled permitting with local and state agencies.
SSAB North America (formerly IPSCO) chose GSE to provide all design services for the new heat treatment and quench line 6 (QL6). The new facility has the capacity to produce 300,000 tons of hardened steel per year. Scope included all utilities, building and equipment foundations, and the 1 million gallon quench system. Additional projects for SSAB include the expansion of quench line 5 (QL5), the addition of a vacuum tank degasser (VTD) to their existing melt shop, and water treatment facility design, along with various maintenance projects throughout the site. GSE has further supported SSAB’s operations and construction with conventional surveying techniques, construction support, aerial mapping/construction tracking capabilities and crane rail alignment surveys.
