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| NASA Redundant Mechanical and Electrical Systems |
| Huntsville, Alabama |
Building 4207 is critically important to Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA’s ground support center for launch vehicles and systems. The building houses telecommunications, computer networks, and satellite communications - functions which must be always available and must not fail, especially during a mission. BWSC provided full A/E services to bring the building’s mechanical and electrical infrastructure up to NASA’s required reliability and performance levels. BWSC coordinated construction sequencing and switchover in order to accommodate NASA’s full schedule of launch and flight missions. BWSC’s designed solution was a fully redundant, concurrently maintainable mechanical and electrical system that was implemented with only one weekend’s downtime. This project is one of many under an Indefinite Delivery contract for which BWSC has performed field investigations, preliminary engineering reports, final design, renderings, cost studies, and feasibility studies on tasks including new buildings, demolitions, modifications and expansions of existing buildings and testing facilities.
Key Points:
- Fully redundant and concurrently maintainable mechanical and electrical systems
- Electrical redundancy includes bringing in power from two separate utility networks
- Included diesel generator as well as hookups for additional or backup truck-mounted generator
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