Public & Civic Qualifications

SoCal Edison, Irvine Operations Center

Alhambra, CA

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Tenant Improvement 135,890 SF

AlfaTech provided mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services for the Southern California Edison Irvine Operations Center, which is a 135,890 SF data center. The critical cooling systems supporting the data center include a single water-cooled chiller plant for heat rejection. The existing chiller plant is internally N+1 component redundant and consists of four (4) 2,970-GPM open-circuit cooling towers, four (4) 570-RT water-cooled chillers, four (4) 1,500-GPM condenser water pumps, and four (4) 1,500-GPM primary chilled water pumps. The water-cooled chiller plant provides chilled water to a secondary chilled water distribution loop by way of four (4) 1,800-GPM secondary chilled water pumps. The secondary chilled water pumps route chilled water to the CRAH and AHU units distributed throughout the facility and back to the chilled water plant.

The scope of this project included developing the scope and ROM cost estimate for a future facility renovation to provide a redundant air-cooled chiller plant to replicate the heat rejection capability of the existing water-cooled plant.

AlfaTech worked with RY+AO on this project.