ESBD_459152_1760459014437_0006461 Attachment I - Utilization & Modernization Construction Narrative.pdf

26 July 2024

Secretary of State

Program Utilization & Modernization of the JE Rudder Building

Construction Narrative

General

Main Lobby on level one (historic area) will have no work.

No work to café.

Add steel canopy and signage outside south basement entry for better visibility.

Replace skylights on roof.

Coordinate with DM work for additional elevator work.

Coordinate with DM work for envelope evaluation and potential window work.

Improve occupant health and comfort

Improve air quality, daylighting with tie into lighting controls, new blinds with controls from bottom up, upgraded break rooms with more appliances, added mother’s room, new furniture, acoustic mitigation at two story space and in cube areas ensure equitable space allocation.

Finishes

1. Assume all concrete columns will be refinished in a manner that looks good, but takes as little dimension as necessary (plaster?)

2. All toilet rooms will receive new flooring walls counters and partitions.

3. All breakrooms will receive new cabinets, quartz counters and stainless steel sinks, TVs and multiple refrigerators minimum 2, 3 where space allows, including additional power and data. All new flooring, ceilings and paint and furniture.

4. All doors will be aluminum frame. Doors into suites, conference rooms and offices to have an 18” - 24” sidelight. (not shown in plans)

5. Add new blinds that pull up from bottom at all exterior windows in occupied areas.

6. New signage to meet Capitol complex sign standards.

7. Flooring to be carpet in office areas, ceramic tile in breakrooms, toilet rooms and elevator lobbies, and LVP in corridors.

8. Ceilings to 2 x 2 suspended grid with gypsum in elevator lobby and conference rooms. Due to the existing floor to floor heights and concrete beams it is expected that some areas may have areas of exposed ducts with acoustic tiles on underside of deck for sound attenuation re extensive gypsum board furrdowns for changes in ceiling levels to accommodate ducts.

Architecture

1. Re-establish rated shaft construction at all vertical shafts.

2. TAS compliance in toilet rooms, break rooms and public entry, doors, drinking fountains signage and generally throughout except front entry will remain as is due to historic status.

3. Elevators: refit elevator cabs with new finishes, fully fire/smoke seal hoistways and lobbies per code including new overhead or sliding smoke rated door enclosures at elevator lobbies, tie elevator controls into security system, ensure TAS compliance.

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Furniture

1. All new systems furniture, including in offices, systems cubes, breakrooms, and conference / training rooms.

2. Reuse existing file cabinets (we hope they eventually go away)

3. Provide screens and data connections in conference / training rooms.

4. Provide televisions and data in each breakroom.

Security

1. Update security system and its tie into elevator controls, add cameras at elevators and in public area and added card readers as needed.

2. Provide an additional security guard desk and person at basement public entry.

3. Remove wiring back to core salvage for reuse as appropriate. Rewire to accommodate new layout supplement as needed.

Data

1. Remove data wiring back to core. Store for reuse as appropriate. Supplement with new as needed for new layout.

MEP

1. Update fire protection system to new layout and uses.

2. Replace all fan powered boxes (FPBs), with ranging capacities, and associated reheat coils and hot water piping, and DDC controls.

3. Replace all six (6) air handling units (AHUs), two in the basement and one on each of floors 2 through

5, along with supply and return CHW and HW piping, and DDC controls.

a. Access for large items is limited. The existing units in the basement require the removal of a wall to set them in place and then build the wall back.

4. Add a Dedicated Outside Air Unit (DOAS) on roof for preconditioning outside air for all building AHUs.

a. Outside air (OA) is currently being ducted to the units with sheet metal plenums built to enclose louvers that from East side of building.

b. Replace Return Air / Relief Air (RA) fans that assist in pulling RA back to the units and to relieve the air from the building through an enclosed chase up to a rooftop louvered penthouse.

5. Replace all ductwork, supply and return air diffusers and grilles, and all associated insulation, hangers and supports.

6. Replace all lighting with new LED lighting throughout the building.

7. Add new Restrooms with all associated supply and drawing piping, lavatories, urinals, toilets as needed.

8. Existing restrooms will have all lavatory faucets and flush valves replaced with tempered water supplies.

9. The building water heaters (7 or so) are past useful service life and need replaced along with T&P relief valves.

10. Upgrade / update the existing building DDC system interface which reports data / information back to a central monitoring location at the Sam Houston Building.