Procter & Gamble Research & Development Facility Commissioning

HEAPY provided LEED Enhanced Commissioning services for Procter & Gamble’s 858,000 SF EXPANSION AND RENOVATION of the company’s largest Research & Development facility in the United States, located in Mason, Ohio. The facility is home to the P&G beauty product research division, housing 1,150 inventors, scientists, researchers, and consumer experts. The center includes modular, adaptable laboratory spaces (designed to meet cGMP requirements), manufacturing pilot plants, and space to conduct focus groups with consumers regarding new beauty products. This expansion provides a central location for all related operations, enabling streamlined business unit collaboration and innovation.

This four-year project involved the careful and COMPLEX PHASING of multiple simultaneous projects in nine buildings (three existing and six new), minimizing disruptions to ongoing operations.

Scope items for this project that go beyond the LEED requirements included fire protection, fire alarms, security and surveillance, ASHRAE 110 testing of fume hoods, room particle count testing, and filter challenge testing. Additionally, this project included all cGMP areas and required that commissioning comply with the Installation Qualification (IQ) / Operational Qualification (OQ) / Performance Qualification (PQ) standards required by the Owner’s master validation plan for the project. The project is certified LEED Silver.

This project also included the commissioning and design review of the modification to the existing on-site CHILLED WATER PLANT. This included two new chillers (one 2800-ton steam turbine driven centrifugal and one 1500-ton electric motor driven, winter operation centrifugal chiller), as well as one new counter flow cooling tower and associated condenser water pumps. This modification expanded the plant capacity to approximately 14,300 tons (from 10,000 tons) and also provided a more energy efficient design by providing the steam turbine driven chiller, which allows for base-loading the plant during summer operation.