LOCATION
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

AREA
38,000 GSF

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Oklahoma City’s first television station to sign on the air relaunched the television program with a high-tech news set and media center in order to better serve it’s audience. The KFOR television facility contains a new two-studio complex that was built adjacent to the existing studio. The new facility utilizes the existing central plant, which Alvine Engineering also designed.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

• Complete HVAC systems including connections to existing central plant, air handling equipment, air distribution ductwork, and piping systems. HVAC systems were designed to comply with sound transmission requirements for studios.
• Central plant and building air-handling equipment provide primary cooling to raised floor area for increased building efficiency and reduced operating costs.
• Standalone, redundant cooling system consisting of ceiling-mount fan coil units and computer room air conditioning units with air-cooled condensing units for critical spaces including television studio data center.
• Double-interlocked pre-action fire protection system serves critical spaces.
• Portable generator connection for quick disaster recovery response time.
• High-efficiency UPS system with maintenance bypass for concurrent maintainability of critical load.
• Raised-access floor for distribution of power and network cables.
• Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing system design accommodated a seamless transition from the existing building to the new building, where both buildings are operational and without downtime for the television studio.
• Plumbing systems including all plumbing fixtures, domestic water piping, sanitary sewer piping, and sanitary vent piping were designed in accordance with applicable code.
• Electrical distribution systems were designed, including connection to the existing electrical service in the central plant.
• Telecommunications structured cabling design (voice and data) was provided.

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Photography credit: Joseph Mills Photography