Baltimore, Md. — RMF Engineering today announced receiving three certificates of appreciation from the University of Virginia (U.Va.) for the firm’s excellence in design and customer service on the University’s Old Jordan Hall HVAC Infrastructure Replacement Project, which involved the overhaul of the nearly 40-year-old HVAC and emergency power infrastructure for the mission-critical research laboratory facility at the University’s School of Medicine. The certificates were presented to RMF during a ceremony at U.Va. in Charlottesville, Va., held on Feb. 13.
Brian Pinkston, Supervisory Senior Project Manager at U.Va., led the ceremony that celebrated RMF’s exceptional design and construction support (for a complex project in an important building), an award that the University seldom distributes. RMF team members who accepted the certificates on behalf of the firm were:
“These honors mean a great deal to our entire team at RMF because they represent the recognition of everyone’s hard work,” said Duane Pinnix, president and CEO of RMF. “We are a very thankful and proud to be recognized by the University of Virginia not only for excellence in design support, but also for the prompt, responsive, and reliable customer service we pride ourselves in providing to our partners.”
The Jordan Hall project was recently featured in an article authored by Domby for HPAC Magazine. An excerpt from the article follows:
In 2010, U.Va. hired RMF Engineering Inc. and DPR Construction to overhaul Jordan Hall’s HVAC infrastructure. The work, which was to be performed while the building remained operational, included the replacement of eight 30,000-cfm air handlers, as well as the steam, reheat, and chilled-water systems and supply and partial-exhaust ductwork, and the addition of a major energy-recovery system. The most significant engineering and construction challenge was posed by the transition from 200 stand-alone exhaust fans to a central high-dilution-exhaust-fan system.
The use of building information modeling (BIM) by the project team allowed the transition to occur in an organized manner clearly understood by the client, the contractor, and facility users.
Read the full article here.
About RMF Engineering
Founded in 1983, RMF Engineering provides planning, design, engineering, commissioning and facility assessment services globally to clients in the healthcare, higher education, laboratory/research and government sectors. The firm leads the industry in the development of new engineering production methods and technologies, including Building Information Modeling (BIM), carbon reduction strategies, and in-depth assessment technologies. A privately held company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, RMF has more than 200 employees in 11 U.S. offices.
