2024
Gold Award
Specialty Contractor, Electrical

Projects of Distinction

Project

PPD-Thermo Fisher Scientific, PPD Building 15 LCMS & General Laboratory

Winner

Faith Technologies Incorporated (FTI)

Location

Middleton, WI

Owner

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Designer

Strang Inc.

About the Project

Thermo Fisher Scientific, located in Middleton, Wisconsin, began an expansion project of their PPD Building 15 LCMS & General Laboratory in June 2022. FTI was brought in to provide pre-construction efforts, which included design consulting, estimating, engineering and prefabrication through Excellerate™. The customer needed power distribution, which included lighting installation, branch power access control, structured cabling, fire alarms, monitoring, electrical metering and sizing of equipment, which included an 800 KW generator and UPS 700 KVA. Challenges to this project included delays in procurement, shipping and manufacturing of equipment. Shipping delays of generators and switchboards negatively impacted scheduling and mechanical startup; however in partnership with the local utility, ownership and engineering teams to analyze electrical loads and power demands, we overcame material delays by working on solutions to stay on schedule with temporary power. Our safety team was proactive and there were zero safety incidents onsite. They went above and beyond to address global project issues such as exhaust in buildings and staging areas.

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