Space Satellite Manufacturing & Testing Facility

The brief

Design and construction of a space satellite manufacturing and testing facility. The multi-storey (varying internal heights) steel frame building consists of offices, clean rooms, STC suites, SVC suites, vibration room, 4 levels of internal plant space and an external plant space which runs the full width of the building at roof level. The building also includes numerous ISO 5 and ISO 6 classification clean rooms served by central HVAC plant.

MEP services included HV / LV / generator, LED lighting throughout, external lighting (LED), fire alarm, security & access control, CCTV, specialist earthing, data cabling, disabled systems, public health, natural gas, liquid and gaseous nitrogen, compressed air, LTHW & LGHW heating, CHW cooling, process cooling, AHU ventilation, DX local cooling and trend building management system.

Added value

This was a very highly serviced building with critical control parameters, the design was developed in close liaison with the building users to ensure their exacting standards were met. The specialist clean rooms & vacuum chamber contractors were an integral part of the design team, allowing a fully accessible service void to be incorporated into the building design. Secondly, the three main plantrooms were stacked one above the other, which simplified the required interfaces between the various services. All this taking place in a fully operational (24/7), occupied building.

This was the third of three phases on the overall project maintaining the same delivery team & sub-contractors was key to the success of the project.