Procter & Gamble

Project Overview

HEAPY provided LEED Enhanced Commissioning services for P&G’s 608,000 SF expansion of the Mason Business Center (MBC). The facility is now the largest research and development center in the world and home to P&G’s beauty product research division, housing 1,150 inventors, scientists, researchers, and consumer experts.

The center includes laboratories, pilot plants and space to conduct focus groups with consumers regarding new beauty products. This expansion now provides a central location, enabling more stream lined business unit collaboration and innovation.

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.

This project also included the Commissioning of the modification to the existing 10,000 ton site chilled water plant. This included two (2) new chillers (one (1) 2800 ton steam turbine driven centrifugal and one (1) 1500 ton electric motor driven, winter operation centrifugal chiller), as well as one (1) new counter flow cooling tower and associated condenser water pumps. This modification expanded the plant capacity to approximately 14,300 tons and also provided a more energy efficient design by providing the steam turbine driven chiller that allows for base-loading the plant during Summer operation.