The University of Central Florida (UCF) chose Hanson to perform an equipment condition assessment (ECA) for 60 facilities on UCF’s main campus in Orlando, Florida.
Hanson serves as UCF’s continuing contract professional services firm for engineering and commissioning projects (including energy-related services). Hanson has provided a wide range of services, including facility condition assessments, planning, investigations, analysis, studies and designs for energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy management projects.
As part of a continuing contract for commissioning and energy-related services for UCF, Hanson has provided equipment condition assessments services for 70 of the buildings on the university’s main campus. Hanson has also conducted equipment condition assessments for the utility buildings on the main campus, including sanitary lift stations, water/wastewater treatment plants, central energy plants and co-generation plants.
The work has included a visual survey and evaluating the characteristics of the facilities’ equipment. At each facility, Hanson has assessed heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment such as cooling towers, air-handling units, hydronic pumps, boilers, chillers, split-system and packaged heat pumps, fume hoods, fan coil units, exhaust fans, chilled beams, variable-air volume boxes, series and parallel fan terminal boxes, lab air valves and zone reheat coils. For each piece of equipment, the visual evaluations have been based on factors including unit tag, unit type, location, manufacturer, model number, serial number, electrical characteristics, installation year, age, ASHRAE-recommended life span compared to age, estimated life remaining based on age, condition rating, condition assessment date, estimated replacement cost and general observations.
The team has prepared a Microsoft Excel worksheet for each building that included the specific data for every piece of existing mechanical equipment in that building. UCF has used the estimated replacement costs for each building to assist in preparing its future capital expenditures budgets.
