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Concord Consulting Engineering

Case study · 2017–2020

Affordable-housing apartment building, Bergen County, NJ

Concord designed the HVAC, plumbing, sprinkler and fire alarm systems for an affordable-housing apartment building in Bergen County, New Jersey, and inspected the work during construction.

The challenge

The apartments sit above covered open parking, so the exhaust vents had to leave the building through the parking soffit.

What Concord did

  • Design taken from 90% design development to 100% construction documents in 2017.
  • Packaged through-wall HVAC units.
  • Exhaust vents routed through the soffit of the covered open parking.
  • Sprinkler system with a booster fire pump, and a fire alarm system.
  • Periodic field inspections during construction, and a final walkthrough on December 4, 2019.

Outcome

  • Concord's final-completion acceptance letter of April 17, 2020 confirmed the building conformed to the HVAC, plumbing and fire alarm contract documents, and that the punch list was complete.
  • As-built MEP set issued in August 2020.

Project facts

Location
Bergen County, NJ
Years
2017–2020
Sector
Multifamily affordable housing (NJ COAH)
Trades
HVAC, plumbing, fire protection (sprinkler with a booster fire pump), fire alarm

From Concord's site visits

Three-story apartment building with vinyl siding above covered open parking, with snow on the ground, Bergen County, New Jersey
The covered open parking under the apartments, at the final walkthrough. Photo: Concord Consulting Engineering, December 2019.
Brick and vinyl-sided apartment fronts with columned entrance porches along a sidewalk, Bergen County, New Jersey
Street frontage at the final walkthrough. Photo: Concord Consulting Engineering, December 2019.

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