Higher Education
The College of Charleston
90 Wentworth Street (c.1859)
This project involved the design for renovations at 90 Wentworth Street, a College of Charleston building which is utilized for student housing. The existing 3-story building totals approximately 3600-square feet and is an historic Charleston Style Single Residence. Engineering services included fire alarm, fire sprinkler, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical engineering design.
Renovations on the first and second floors included the laundry, bathroom, and kitchen areas of the building. The second and third floor renovations included HVAC replacement, and plumbing upgrades.
Charleston Southern University Athletic Center
Charleston, SC
This project included the design for fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical services for an approximate 19,000 square foot, two-story, new facility located on the Charleston Southern University Campus. The building houses locker rooms, conference rooms, offices, and support spaces for the Athletic and Kinesiology departments.
Design challenges included meeting ventilation requirements for extensive locker room / shower spaces, while maintaining proper temperature and humidity set-points inside building.
Charleston Southern University
Charleston, SC
Charleston Southern University is one of South Carolina’s largest accredited, independent universities, enrolling 3,600 students.
The new 26,800 square-foot facility Leadership Center for Charleston Southern University is located at the center of the campus and features classrooms, lecture halls. conference and seminar facilities.
Constantine Engineering provided fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical design services through construction administration. Systems included chilled water HVAC with ice storage for energy savings, energy efficient lighting, and building wide automation system tied into Owner management backbone.
Trident Technical College, The Culinary Institute of Charleston
Palmer Campus, Charleston, SC
Thank you to Eric Hamilton, Director of Facilities Management
The 22,000 square foot renovation of the Culinary Institute of Charleston provides an attractive, modern, and efficient space for culinary arts training. This advanced culinary arts center complements the recently completed center at Trident Technical College’s Main Campus. The renovation allowed for an increase in student capacity to 1,500 and provided many new features to faculty and students. Some of the many features include: a 50-seat restaurant, production kitchen, training kitchen, baking lab, nutrition lab, mixology classroom, gallery, 100-seat auditorium with demonstration kitchen, pre-function, and administrative and support offices. This $7- million dollar project included interior renovations, as well as additions and new façade. Engineering services included plumbing, mechanical, and electrical design, bidding and construction phase services.
College of Charleston
This project involved design for new fire sprinkler systems to serve three dorm buildings for the College of Charleston. The first two buildings are adjacent single style historic homes, 3-stories each located at 15 and 17 St. Philip Street. Both are occupied as sorority student housing. The third building, a 3-story building also used for student housing, is located at 300 Meeting Street.
The 15 and 17 St. Philip Street buildings are each 3,000-sf gross and required new fire line taps/meters and risers. The 300 Meeting Street building is 2,140-sf gross and required only a new riser.
Clemson University Dominion Energy Innovation Center
Mechanical and electrical engineering design services provided for new AHU’s utilizing the two existing 95-ton air cooled chillers, which CEA provided mechanical services for in 2018, repurposed to provide space cooling. The space includes a 15-MW generator (approximately 20,000-sf in area and 55-ft high), and 7.5-MW generator (approximately 15,000-sf in area and 40-ft high). Services provided through the construction administration phase.
Charleston School of Law
This project involved relocating the library.
CEA provided fire protection, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical engineering design and drafting services.
Trident Technical College, Nursing Sim Lab Upgrades
TTC desired to improve the quality and efficiency of simulation-based learning experiences utilized in the TTC Nursing program, both in-person and virtually. The third-floor seminar room was converted into a large group sim room with the ability to run between 1 – 4 sim sessions at a time.
CEA provided plumbing, mechanical, and electrical engineering design services continuing through the construction phase.
College of Charleston Bell Building
The Bell Building was built in the 1930’s to house the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company switchboard operating system. The building now houses classrooms for the Lowcountry Hall of Science and Math as well as College of Charleston faculty and administrative offices.
This project involved the mechanical and electrical design for HVAC equipment upgrades serving the fifth Floor Data Center for the College of Charleston. The College desired to provide secondary and tertiary cooling backup systems for the Data Center while replacing HVAC equipment that is at or near the end of useful life.
Charleston Southern University
Charleston Southern University is one of South Carolina’s largest accredited, independent universities, enrolling approximately 3,400 students.
This project involves the analysis and design for replacement of one of two air-cooled chillers and one or both hydronic boilers serving The Science Building at Charleston Southern University, North Charleston, SC. Also included are evaluations of the overall building HVAC operations with the goal of improving efficiency through equipment and controls upgrades and modifications.
Constantine Engineering provides mechanical and electrical engineering design and drafting services as necessary to deliver sealed construction documents.
College of Charleston, Craig Hall
Design for extension of an existing fire sprinkler and alarm system at the College of Charleston Craig Hall Dormitory building. The project is for the 2nd and 3rd floors of approximately 43,400-sf.
CEA provided fire sprinkler and alarm engineering design
K-12
Charles B. Dubose Jr Middle School
Charleston, SC
This project involved upgrades to the campus wide HVAC systems at Dubose Middle School. It included space-by-space infrastructure evaluations and analysis, and life cycle cost comparisons, for the design of the HVAC replacement throughout the school for 275-tons (existing). Areas included:
Building 100: Special Education, Media, and Administration
Building 200: Classrooms, Teaching
Building 300: Kitchen, Teaching, and Laundry
Building 400: Classrooms
Building 500: Band Room, Wood Shop, Health Classrooms, and Locker Rooms
Building 600: Kitchen and Cafetorium
Northwoods Middle School – Life Safety Improvements
North Charleston, SC
This project involved adding an emergency egress for Northwoods Middle School in North Charleston, SC to the North End of Wing C for second floor classrooms C223, C225A, and C225B.
CEA provided fire protection, mechanical, and electrical design services.
Charleston Collegiate School
The project was for a private school located on Johns Island for grades Pre-K through 12.
CEA provided mechanical engineering services in order to correct problems with water intrusion into the gymnasium.
North Charleston High School
CEA provided mechanical engineering services for the analysis of the chilled water piping insulation at the school.
Winyah School
National Register of Historical Places – 1988
Complete rehabilitation of an abandoned school building, including the Theater, Classrooms, Toilets, etc. to be used as a Medical Surgical facility, as well as commercial lease space. Services included structural, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection design.
Murchison School
Work on this project included mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection services for the renovation of a historic 3-story, 23,000 square foot building. This building is being used as a ninth-grade public school.