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Owner: U. S. Army Corp of Engineers / General Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Company - Austin, Texas / Contract Amount: $4,224,000

Ivey Mechanical Company provided HVAC and plumbing systems for the new maintenance dock facility. The systems installed include domestic water, chilled and hot water, steam, nitrogen, vacuum, compressed air, hydraulics, and aircraft conditioned air. The hangers are designed to accommodate two B-2 Stealth Bombers.

Owner: U. S. Army Corp of Engineers / General Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction, Inc. - Austin, Texas / Contract Amount: $7,100,000

Award of Excellence in Construction - National Associated Builders and Contractors

This $28 million facility one of the most advanced and sophisticated military training centers in the world and trains all branches of the U.S. armed services and its allies for detection and decontamination of chemicals associated with chemical warfare. The facility contains classrooms, training and administrative areas, support facilities, controlled interior decontamination areas, a medical clinic, and a laboratory. Ivey self-performed 80% of the $7,100,000 contract, which included all HVAC, plumbing, controls, test and balance, commissioning, and a highly advanced system for the removal and filtering of chemical agents used in training. Ivey worked 47,448 manhours with no recordable accidents.

Owner: Choctaw Maid Farms / General Contractor: Universal Construction - Huntsville, Alabama / Contract Amount: $7,401,183

This project was a combination of several contracts to expand and renovate an existing poultry processing facility from 59,800 to 314,800 square feet. This renovation created Mississippi’s largest poultry processing facility (and one of the world’s largest) then becoming the Corporate Headquarters. The new plant processes 364 birds per minute. Mechanical features include 6,250 tons of refrigeration and 2,900 gallons of water well capacity per minute with 150,000 gallons of storage. One of the greatest challenges was meeting the one-day down time allowed for converting from the existing to the new processing plant. The first contract started on August 29, 1995, and the last contract finished on March 15, 1997.

Owner: Wackenhut Corrections / General Contractor: White Construction Company / Contract Amount: $4,436,505

This facility is a 230,000 square-foot psychiatric prison containing four housing pods, one support and one maintenance building. Ivey performed the HVAC, plumbing and utility work for the prison and the piping for the 500,000-gallon water tank. Architectural design of Wackenhut’s 1,000-bed prison called for exterior walls to be constructed of tilt-up panels. A challenge for Ivey was to maintain plumbing rough-in beneath slab until all exterior walls were formed, poured and tilted on the actual building slab. Ivey set 14 roof-top units, ranging from five to 30 tons each, on the support building’s exterior, running duct up along exterior walls and through the attic. Sixteen 20-ton split HVAC systems were installed in the housing pods. Ivey pre-fabricated 128 plumbing risers on site. Ivey worked 67,062 manhours with no recordable accidents.

Owner: Florida State Department of Management Services / General Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction / Contract Amount: $6,778,612

This new correctional facility will house up to 1,500 medium and close custody adult male inmates. The $69.3 million project included an administration building, maintenance shop, support building, dormitory building, three housing units, segregation building, gymnasium, and industry building. The buildings total 277,000 square feet. The mechanical contract included the installation of 2 - 450 ton chillers, 50 chilled water air handlers, 6 split systems, 130 exhaust fans, 8 VAV boxes, and 33 roof ventilator hoods. All of the underground sewer piping and the above ground domestic water piping over the housing units was pre-fabricated on site. Ivey worked 76,000 man hours with no recordable incidents.

Owner: Jackson Hospital and Clinic / General Contractor: Robins & Morton - Birmingham, Alabama / Contract Amount: $14,300,000

Ivey completed the HVAC and plumbing on both the new patient tower and powerhouse for Jackson Hospital. The new powerhouse was constructed to provide mechanical, plumbing and electrical services to both the new and existing facilities. Built to replace the existing powerhouse, the new powerhouse is a two-story, 14,449-square-foot structure. . Ivey installed three centrifugal chillers (2,700 tons), three cooling towers, three steam boilers (900 HP), one deaerator, 12 HVAC pumps (215 HP), five domestic water heaters (1,800 gal./2,700 GPH), one clinical 30-HP vacuum pump, one clinical 40-HP air compressor, one duplex 110-GPM water softener, one domestic water booster pump (700 GPM/40 HP), and 8,465 linear feet of piping.

Owner: Brunswick Industrial Authority / General Contractor: Canam Construction - Edmond, Oklahoma / Contract Amount: $5,481,000

In March 1998, Ivey Mechanical Company completed the HVAC and plumbing for ten buildings at the new 1,500-bed correctional facility. The complex includes administration, classrooms, dining hall, kitchen, greenhouse, guard house, maintenance, and six two-story modular pre-cast concrete cell buildings. Installation included 73 rooftop units ranging from 10 to 25 tons each and over 1,500 plumbing fixtures on the 18-month design/build project.

Contract Amount: $3,845,000 / Start Date: August 1995 / Completion Date: May 1997

Merit Award - Missississippi Associated Builders and Contractors

Ivey installed HVAC, plumbing, process piping, and medical gas for the new 175,000 square foot hospital. The hospital consists of two connecting four-story buildings.

Owner: Nissan Corporation / General Contractor: W. G. Yates & Son Construction - Philadelphia, Mississippi / Contract Amount: $44,000,000

Ivey completed the mechanical designs and installed the HVAC systems, plumbing, ventilation, process piping, and controls in the new 2.6 million square foot auto manufacturing plant. The facility is situated on 1,400 acres and is a series of small plants linked together. The mechanical contract on this $960 million project was more than $46 million. Ivey set 174 exhaust fans; placed 76 air-handling units weighing 22,000 pounds each; installed 170,000 (32 miles) of pipe and fittings; and installed 1,830,000 pounds of sheet metal; and round, oval, and rectangular duct. Other equipment installed were 28 intake hoods, 10 split systems, 10 Liebert unit systems, 18 pumps, 3 heat exchangers, 3 cooling towers, 3 duct collectors, and 4 Carmon exhaust systems.

Owner: Retirement Systems of Alabama / Contract Amount: $27,500,000

Award of Merit - Mississippi Associated Builders and Contractors

Best Mechanical/Electrical Project - South Central Construction Magazine

The 35-story RSA Battle House Tower stands at 745 feet, makint it the tallest building in Alabama. The skyscraper construction was part of a larger project which included the renovation of the historic 238 room Battle house Hotel. Ivey's mechanical contract included the plumbing, heating and air conditioning systems, and fire protection for all of the buildings. The renovation and expansion of the Battle House Hotel included public space connections with ballroom, meeting rooms, and lobby and extends out to form the first eight floors of the new tower with additional guest rooms. Ivey worked 217,802 man hours over the period of three and a half years to complete this project.

Owner: Triad Hospitals / General Conractor: Bovis Lend Lease / Contract Amount: $15,224,030

This facility is a 391,196 square foot, seven-story replacement hospital. Ivey installed the plumbing, HVAC, medical gas piping, and owner furnished hospital equipment. The materials installed included 508,000 pounds of ductwork and 33,000 feet of HVAC piping. Three 850 ton centrifugal chillers, three 1700 GPM cooling towers, and nine air handling units were installed to cool the medical facility. The new structure houses an ER department (2 trauma units, 3 cardiac care units,) radiology, intensive care unit (16 beds,) cardiology department (3 cath/angio labs,) OR department (9 suites,) labor and delivery (2 c-section suites, 8 delivery rooms,) and a patient tower (163 beds.) The medical center also contains a two-story medical office building. Patients were transferred to the new facility in February 2002.

Owner: Wackenhut Corrections Corporation / General Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction / Contract Amount: $5,366,577

The Rivers Correctional Institution is a campus design with four housing buildings, recreational areas, a central programs building, an administrative building, a prison industries building, and four perimeter towers. The design of the facility enables cost effective utilization of security staff supplemented by modern electronic surveillance. Plumbing and HVAC on the 1,450-bed, low-security adult male corrections facility began in February 2000. The project completed in February 2001 after 79,000 manhours with no lost-time accidents.

Owner: Retirement Systems of Alabama / Contract Amount: $27,500,000

Award of Merit - Mississippi Associated Builders and Contractors

Best Mechanical/Electrical Project - South Central Construction Magazine

Owner: Wachovia Bank, NA / General Contractor: Holder Construction - Atlanta, Georgia / Contract Amount: $11,265,609

Project of the Year Award - Contractor Magazine

Wachovia Silas Center, a $65 million technology center, was built to support the growing needs of Wachovia's ever-expanding customer base. Known as the industry benchmark for data centers, Wachovia features full electrical and mechanical system redundancy allowing 24-hour operation. The new two-story data center totals 170,000-square feet, with 105,000-square feet computer room raised access floor, 5,000-square feet office area, and 60,000-square feet mechanical and electrical infrastructure and support space. Weekly design coordination began in January 1998, before construction started in April. Ivey Mechanical Company had all equipment online by December 1, and substantial completion was on January 3, 1999. The fast-track project completed under budget and with no lost-time accidents.

Owner: Tucolameta, Inc. / General Contractor: White Construction Company, Inc. / Contract Amount: $4,433,700

The Walnut Grove Correctional Facility built at Walnut Grove, Mississippi is a 376,000 square foot juvenile detention center. Ivey installed 43 units in the attic. The project completed in 13 months.

Owner: Federal Bureau of Prisons / General Contractor: The Haskell Company - Jacksonville, Florida / Contract Amount: $13,819,000

The medium security Federal Correctional Institution at Yazoo City is a design-build project with a total project amount of $90 million. The project consists of 3 general housing units, 1 special housing unit, and 13 other support buildings with a combined square footage of approximately 500,000 square feet. The facility will house 1,200 medium security inmates.

Owner: Nissan Corporation / General Contractor: Malouf Construction - Madison, Mississippi / Contract Amount: $596,200

The facility was constructed to treat the industrial waste produced from the manufacturing of automobiles at the new Nissan plant in Canton. The project was funded by the State of Mississippi, and, upon completion, ownership and operation of the plant was transferred to Nissan. Ivey Mechanical was responsible for two contracts. The first contract involved the installation of the plumbing and HVAC for the building which houses the plant. The second contract included the fabrication and installation of the pipe systems for the plant and the hook-up of the tanks, pumps, and other equipment supplied by the State of Mississippi. Ivey completed both contracts on this project with no accidents.

B-2 Support Facilities

Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri

Owner: U. S. Army Corp of Engineers / General Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Company - Austin, Texas / Contract Amount: $4,224,000