Living Coast Discovery Center

Living Coast Discovery Center Field Trip

Sustainable and Resilient Design

Our recently completed project, P-249, F-35 Communication Building & Infrastructure Upgrade at MCAS Miramar, won a recent award from the Department of Energy.  Congratulations to R.A. Burch Construction and the design team:

• Architecture - Vasquez Marshall Architects

• Interiors - K. Killman

• Structural - Wildman & Morris

• Civil - BDS Engineering

• Landscape - KTU&A

• Mechanical - MA Engineers

• Electrical - MEI Engineering

• Fire Protection - Coffman Engineering

Dept. of Energy - 2021 Federal Energy and Water Management Award

U.S. Marine Corps

Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, CA

The MCAS Miramar team partnered with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to design and install a new efficient, resilient, and cost-effective data center, which achieved its target power usage effectiveness (PUE) of an incredible 1.2. (The industry average PUE is 1.6.). Completed in 2020, the project also leveraged the data center's backup diesel generator as an asset for the entire installation by integrating it with the installation's microgrid. This way, the microgrid connected data center generator provides an additional 1.5 MW of power to the entire installation when isolated from the utility. The cooling towers were designed to use recycled water for additional savings. Combined with other efficiency measures representing savings of around $500,000 per year, the project has resulted in an overall 35% drop in energy consumption.

Additional information can be found in the publication below by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL):

https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/marine-corps-air-station-miramar-and-nrel-allies-in-energy-efficiency-systems-integration-and-resilience.html