These recent projects involve sustainable and energy efficient building engineering design features.
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Saco Fire Station – Saco, Maine
 Allied Engineering completed this $6M, fast-track, Design/Build project with PC Construction and Port City Architecture for a new 23,000 s.f. fire station in Saco, Maine. The project was completed in March 2011
The new fire station is a two-story structure with apparatus bay, administration areas, and living quarters. It is designed to LEED Silver standards with an advanced hybrid geothermal heating system. The geothermal heating system features ten 500-foot wells that deliver well water to heat pumps for building heating and cooling. The building also has a backup system made up of two natural gas condensing boilers and a rooftop solar hot water system.
As a result of the work designed by Allied Engineering, a significant grant was presented by Efficiency Maine Advanced Buildings program. The program offers strategies and incentives to help Maine owner-builders, developers, architects and engineers to design high performance buildings.
Hampton Inn – Presque Isle,
 Maine - Solar Thermal System This project is for a 4-story, 93-guestroom limited service hotel with porte-cochere, indoor swimming pool and exercise spaces. Other spaces include various guestroom types, lobby, breakfast area and prep (limited kitchen), meeting room, elevator, commercial hotel laundry, typical hotel back-of-house and administrative support areas. AEI has provided full service design for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, and fire protection engineering.
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| University of Maine Farmington, Emery Arts Center – Farmington, Maine – Geothermal System AEI worked with DesignLab Architects to develop construction documents for the Structural, Mechanical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, and Electrical design for a new Community Arts Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. The facility houses two exhibit galleries and a central performance space. It incorporates systems which optimize energy performance and represent sustainable design principles. The structure is an addition to the existing Alumni building, maintaining the “doorway to campus” façade. This project included a geothermal system.   |
