Los Angeles Music Center’s Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles Music Center’s Disney Concert Hall
By providing piping packages to help offset installation costs and to take advantage of their space–saving features, Griswold Controls provided a cost-effective solution for the hot and chilled water fan coils and air handlers.
Project Overview
An Iconic Venue for an Iconic Solution
The Concert Hall was designed by Frank Gehry, an internationally recognized architect whose many credits include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the American Center in Paris. The ceiling of the building features wavy, steel forms which are designed to appear like a ship with billowing sails at full mast.
Groundbreaking commenced on the project in late 1999, and the Concert Hall was finally dedicated in 2003 at an ultimate cost of $274 million. This ‘monument to music’ became the key to the resurgence of downtown Los Angeles and a beacon for the extensive commercial and condominium housing development which has followed.
The Griswold Controls Solution
Griswold Controls’ Los Angeles rep, Mahendra Mistry, owner of JD Sales Co., worked with the project’s mechanical engineering firm, Levine/Seegel Assoc. of Santa Monica, CA, to obtain favorable specifications for Griswold Controls automatic FCVs, calling out individual FCVs for various terminal units per the piping arrangement shown on the drawings.
ACCO Engineered Systems of Glendale, CA, the principal mechanical contractor, was intent on using piping packages to help offset installation costs as well as take advantage of their space–saving features without compromising the piping arrangement shown on the drawings. Mahendra worked closely with Frank Falcone, Bill Traub and Mike Masterman of ACCO to sell nearly 200 Isolator™ Y coil piping packages for installation on the VAV boxes and another 60+ automatic flow controls on the hot and chilled water fan coils and air handlers.
- ~200 Isolator™ Y Coil Piping Packages Installed on VAV boxes throughout the facility.
- 60+ Automatic Flow Controls Installed on hot and chilled water fan coils and air handlers.
- Quickset® Manual Balance Valves Installed on pump discharge risers in low-headspace basement conditions.
Overcoming a Unique Installation Challenge
Another challenge presented itself regarding the flow measuring devices specified on the pumps. The pumps were installed in the basement with limited headspace below the ceiling. None of the specified devices could be accommodated because of their requirement for normal upstream and downstream pipe diameters on the vertical discharge risers.
Although not specified for these manual devices, Mahendra worked closely with ACCO through 4 submittals to gain approval of Griswold Controls’ Quickset® manual balance valves, utilizing their disturbed flow technology as the only alternative that would fit in the low headspace and still provide the specified accuracy.
Griswold Controls and JD Sales are very proud of their involvement in this world–class project.
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