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.
K-12
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.
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
Dorchester School District Two - Gymnasiums
Dorchester County, SC
Design for HVAC installation at four previously unconditioned Middle School Gymnasiums in Dorchester County School District Two: Dubose Middle School, Gregg Middle School, Alston Middle School, and Oakbrook Middle School.
The project involved electrical and mechanical engineering design for HVAC upgrades of the four gymnasium buildings in the school district, and included feasibility and energy cost studies. This enabled the selection of one system type that could then be applied to the design of all four schools, thereby providing the School District some costs savings.