Kevin A. Smola and Assoc., Inc.

U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation - Headquarters

New Construction
85,000 Square Foot Office Building
34,000 Square Foot Laboratory Building
5 Level Parking Garage

Construction of a four story office building with floor by floor self contained variable air volume units, a single story laboratory research building with air scrubbers, dust collection system, laboratory gas systems, acid and industrial waste systems, etc. and a five level parking structure.

Occupancy January, 1993

U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation - Administration
Building (Boron)

New Construction
20,000 Square Foot Office Building

Construction of a two story office building with a ground mounted packaged variable air volume unit with perimeter hot water reheat. Unit was custom designed to allow for all cooling and heating systems to be factory installed in one enclosure requiring only power and piping connections in the field.

Occupancy December, 1992

Wells Fargo Bank - Office Building

Renovation

100,000 Square Foot Office Building

Renovation of building interiors, toilet rooms, changeover from constant volume to variable volume and the addition of a Direct Digital Building Management system.

Occupancy November, 1992

The Aerospace Corporation - Building A2 Labs

Renovation
34,000 Square Foot Office Building

Remodel of existing office space to electronics laboratories with the addition of redundant air handling and cooling systems, laboratory gas systems, de-ionized water, compressed air and vacuum systems an industrial waste system and expansion of the existing Direct Digital Building controls system,

Occupancy June, 1993

6300 Wilshire Office Building

Renovation
280,000 Square Foot Office Building

During the asbestos abatement, the entire HVAC system was modernized by converting the existing constant volume double duct system to a variable air volume double duct system. The process required all of the twenty-two stories to be converted as the building was being abated.

Upon completion of the shell and core work, we provided tenant design services for most of the twenty-two stories of office space.

Other Commercial Projects:

The Aerospace Corporation - Building D9 Labs

The Aerospace Corporation - Building A2 Office/Central Plant

Rockwell Fitness Center

Hughes Federal Credit Union

Los Angeles Community College District Administration Office

Huntington Oaks Office Building - shell and core modifications
Los Angeles Times - Tenant
McGraw Hill - Tenant
Transamerica - Tenant

Virgin Megastore - Sunset Boulevard
Costa Mesa
San Francisco
Las Vegas

New Construction - Tenant improvement
25,000 to 35,000 Square Foot Record Stores

Tenant improvement in an existing malls or stand alone buildings. The air conditioning systems consist of water source heat pumps or rooftop package units with architectural painted flat oval exposed ductwork.

(Sunset Blvd. Store) Occupancy November, 1992
(Las Vegas Store) Occupancy December 1997

The Disney Store - (Multiple Sites)

Renovation
2500 to 4200 Square Foot Retail Stores

Tenant improvements for retail stores in regional malls including air conditioning, smoke evacuation and plumbing systems.

Lakewood, California
El Cajon, California
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Santa Barbara, California
Brea, California
Orlando, Florida
Eatontown, New Jersey
Santa Rosa, California

San Francisco, California
Hoover, Alabama
Laredo, Texas
Nashville, Tennessee
Sherman Oaks, California

Gottschalks Department Stores (Various Sites)

New Construction
35,000 to 120,000 Square Foot Department Stores

New construction and additions for one and two story department stores at regional malls. Systems included fire sprinkler, domestic plumbing and loading dock sump pumps.

New Stores:
Hanford, California
Capitola, California
Eureka, California
Yuba City, California
Antioch, California
Palmdale, California

Remodeled Stores:
Fig Garden, California
Reno, Nevada
Mt. Shasta, California

Other Retail Projects:

J. J. Newberry
Weight Watchers
Santa Maria Mall Extension
Pep Stores (several locations)
Parts USA Stores (several locations)

We have provided design services for schools ranging from elementary schools to the college level. Included are three projects for the Los Angeles Southwest Community College which consists of two new buildings as well as a replacement chilled water central plant supplying chilled water to Buildings A and B.

The two new buildings are a 50,000 square foot physical fitness building with a gymnasium and a new 85,000 square foot lecture/laboratory building consisting of classrooms and laboratory classrooms. The laboratory classrooms contain fume hoods and chemistry gases piped to the laboratory benches.

We have also provided design services for four schools for the Arcadia Unified School District and for four schools for the La Canada Flintridge Unified School District. The La Canada Unified School District projects consists of three elementary schools and one high school. The elementary schools are modernization type projects while the high school includes a new classroom building and a newly enclosed gymnasium.

In addition to the larger projects listed above, we have provided design services for several small projects for the Los Angeles Community College District.

Some of these projects are as follows:

Arcadia Unified School District (four schools)

Bonita Unified School District (three schools)

La Canada Flintridge Unified School District (four schools)

Los Angeles Unified School District (five schools)

Los Angeles Southwest Community College (two new buildings)

Los Angeles Southwest Community College (new central plant system)

Los Angeles Pierce Community College - Energy Conservation Retrofit Project which includes the design of air conditioning for eleven buildings, a campus wide Energy Management System and a lighting retrofit throughout the campus.

East Los Angeles Community College (swimming pool drainage system)

Engineering reports are important to the owner during the decision making process. We have provided feasibility reports analyzing the economic feasibility of thermal energy storage systems. One of these feasibility studies was provided for the City of Beverly Hills Civic Center Complex.

Reports are also provided for owners on buildings which are under consideration for purchase. Analysis reports are also provided to owners for a selection of an HVAC system which may be more expensive on a first cost basis but is more efficient, and therefore less costly to operate. The latest (December 1996) report/energy study, an analysis comparing individual building systems versus a central plant, was provided for the campus of the Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California.

We have also provided an analysis to Greyhound Buslines, Inc. comparing standard air conditioning systems to a highly energy efficient cooling system for their proposed new terminal in Phoenix, Arizona. This report investigates the option of utilizing the low humidity levels in the Phoenix area to reduce their energy cost associated with comfort cooling.

All reports include a table of contents and appendices. For reports providing information on existing HVAC systems, pictures are provided and the report discusses the items indicated in the pictures.

Some of these reports are as follows:

City of Beverly Hills         -     Central Plant Analysis

City of Beverly Hills         -     Thermal Energy Storage System Analysis

Inland Center Mall         -     Thermal Energy Storage System Analysis

6300 Wilshire Building     -     Centrifugal Chillers versus Absorption Chillers Analysis.

Greyhound Buslines, Inc     -     Comfort Cooling via refrigeration versus indirect/direct evaporative cooling.

Rockwell Building 510        -     Report on existing HVAC system and an analysis of its capacity

Clean room design provides for rooms with a highly controlled atmosphere. Usually conditions are controlled to plus or minus one degree and plus or minus 5% relative humidity. Clean rooms have been designed for semiconductor fabrication as well as the pharmaceutical industry.

The Aerospace Corporation - Building A2 Labs

New Construction
2500 Square Foot Class 10000 Clean Room

Project consist a Class 10000 clean room, temperature control to plus or minus one (1) degree Fahrenheit and 3% relative humidity.

Cryopharm

New Construction
500 Square Foot Class 100 Clean Room
180 Square Foot Class 1000 Support Area
200 Square Foot Class 10000 Support Area

Project consists of clean rooms and support areas, temperature control to plus or minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity control to plus or minus 2.5 percent relative humidity.

Other projects include a 40,000 square foot medical research facility in Taipei, Taiwan. In addition to standard medical laboratories, this project included an animal research laboratory. The HVAC design was quite unusual due to the research of contagious viruses and bacteria. The project was owned by the National Defense Ministry Center of Taiwan.

Design services have been provided for health care facilities for several projects throughout the Los Angeles area. The projects listed below represent those facilities where design services have been provided by Kevin A. Smola and Associates, Inc. or its employees while at other firms. The list represents the depth of the experience of Kevin A. Smola and Associates, Inc. and its employees.

Sunnyside Nursing Home
Syrius Research Outpatient Surgery Center
Torrance Hospital
Los Angeles Childrens Hospital
USC Medical Center
Riverside County Hospital
Long Beach Hospital
St. Joseph Medical Center
Good Samaritan Hospital
San Bernardino Medical Center