Harlow's Casino and Resort

The exciting Harlow’s Casino and Resort in Greenville, Mississippi, was designed to provide one-shop entertainment for all guests.  Built upon the idea of a 33,000 square foot floating casino on a tributary of the Mississippi River, the owners of Harlow’s envisioned a hotel with premium restaurants, fine accommodations, and multiple venues of entertainment.

HAL-PE served as a the lead mechanical, electrical, and plumbing designer on all phases of the project.  The multi-purpose arena will safely seat up to 2,500 guests for all forms of entertainment.  The in-house buffet restaurant and separate café provide guests with 24/7 dining options.  The hotel consists of over 100 luxurious rooms and suites with many rooms offering a Jacuzzi tub, and separate shower.  Finally, the HAL-PE designed the site electric for over 73 acres of primary electric distribution, parking and roadway lighting.

Renovate Shower and Toilet Rooms

In 2011, HAL-PE was contracted to prepare construction documents to renovate seven shower and toilet room spaces in Building 101 on the Danville, Illinois VAMC campus.  The general intent of the project was to allow for more patient privacy, while improving the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems in these spaces.  The new design would provide for new flooring, wall finishes, ceiling systems, and all new plumbing fixtures.

This project is being designed with BIM software and systems to provide the VAMC with the best coordinated and executable design possible.  The image shown above is a finished rendering from the AutoCAD Revit program.

Chalmers P Wylie Ambulatory Care Center

The MRI Suite will include a waiting area, reception room, interview & preparation room, sub-wait area, MRI magnet room, equipment room and control room. The scope of work includes demolition and new construction of existing areas to allow for the installation of new MRI equipment. Project will include concrete, masonry metals, wood, plastics & composites, thermal & moisture, openings, finishes, specialties, equipment, furnishings, fire suppression, plumbing, HVAC, electrical and communications.

Cincinnati VA Medical Center

HAL-PE was contracted to replace both the Public Address and Paging systems in the Cincinnati VA Medical Center Hospital complex as part of this Recovery and Reinvestment Act procurement.  The project involved work in all major facilites, not limited to Buildings #1, #3, #6, #7, #8, #13, #15, the Fisher House, Trailer C, Safety Trailer and the Patient Safety Trailers #1 and #2.

HAL-PE provided all labor and materials based off the contract documents.  The project was finished on time and on schedule with no change orders except those requested by the government.  HAL-PE incurred no accidents or injuries during this project.

Currently, Southshore consists of the first tower with 73 units covering approximately
173,600sf, a 175,000sf parking garage, a clubhouse and swimming pool atop the
garage.  HAL-PE engineers had to work with local companies for all new utility services to the development.  All new primary electric had to be provided to the site and existing utilities relocated under the scope of work. The flexible design of the units allow the
individual owners the opportunity to customize their space to meet their needs
with lighting and low voltage requests.

The elevator main elevator shaft and the stair towers are equipped with pressurization systems integrated into the fire alarm system to control smoke migration during a fire.  HAL-PE provided the complete design, wrote a testing procedure, and administered the testing of the systems.

The emergency system consists of two generators located on the second floor of the
garage to avoid the flood plain.  All emergency life safety systems, not limited to the voice notification of the fire alarm system located in the fire command center, were designed by HAL-PE.

Mountain Home Chiller Building

The scope of work is to expand the existing chilled water system capacity at the northeast end of the existing campus chilled water distribution loop in order to provide new redundant cooling systems for Buildings 162 and 37.

The new design will include a new cooling system to supply new cooling capacity for Buildings 162 and 37. System redundancy shall include new primary and secondary chiller(s)/chill water system and cooling tower(s)/condensing water system. At least one source of condensing water cooling shall be from geothermal wells unless investigation and calculations reveal that local site conditions do not provide adequate flow and/or heat sink.

Project Cost: $1,970,000

The intent of the project scope of work is to repair and replace up to three chilled water pumps, install a new plate and frame heat exchanger, and the replacement of a 600 ton cooling tower.  In addition, HAL-PE had the requirement to update piping, valves, and controls to allow for full automation and use of any combination of chiller with any cooling tower.  All work is to be performed at the Building 67 Chiller Plant, which is to remain in operation (minimum of two (2) each chillers and cooling towers available) until the end of 2011 Cooling Season.

Project Cost: $650,000

HAL-PE Associates completed the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for First Financial Bank’s regional banking center in West Chester, Ohio.  The mechanical systems included a VAV air handling system with chilled water cooling and hot water heating.  The chilled water system utilized an air cooled, scroll chiller with full thermal storage.  By generating ice during off-peak hours, the chiller was able to completely shut down during times of peak energy use.  This load shifting and peak metering provided substantial savings on the Bank’s electric utilities.

HAL_PE Associates was contracted to design all the plumbing systems for the Ascent as part of a design-build contract under Ken Neyer Plumbing.

More than a luxury condominium, The Ascent is an aesthetic statement and a towering architectural achievement. Its signature arcing profile invites a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to be part of an exclusive community that literally lives in an original work of art.