Gilead
Project Summary
The Gilead Sciences project in Foster City, Calif. involved the design and new construction of a four story, 200,000 square-foot office building with R&D lab, biotech lab and office space. The new building included specialty formulation rooms and downflow booths built to ISO 5 Certified Class 100 operating standards Explosion proof receptacles were standards. Explosion-proof receptacles were coordinated and installed in stainless steel panels designed to minimize bacterial growth and maximize cleaning. For the lab space, Cupertino Electric prefabricated and installed 3,400 feet of custom wire mold and coordinated and powered up tablet coating machines, walk-in refrigeration units, and a human-to machine interface (HMI) dispensary carousel.
Under the scope of CEI, a fully-deployed 3D BIM model was used for project coordination among trades for field installation of fire alarm, smoke control and spill notification systems with hallway pull stations and installed throughout the building as well as main control panels in the fire alarm room. Additional systems included grounding and low voltage tray for the data and security systems, a 1500kW generator with three separate ATS to distinguish between back-up, required life safety emergency power systems, a 360kW uninterruptable power supply (UPS) for the IDF rooms and to support other sensitive equipment in the new Gilead building.
Designed for Unique Site Conditions
The building was constructed on auger cast piles
extending down 130 feet, requiring additional
underground electrical infrastructure coordination. A
fully-deployed 3D BIM model of the project helped
with trade coordination and difficult ceiling installs that
varied greatly in height due to Gilead’s specialty
equipment. The entire electrical design and the construction lifecycle was
roughly 14 months.
Size
200,000 sq ft
Market
Commercial Office
Owner
Gilead
Delivery
BIM, Design Build
