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611 West Sixth Street
Los Angeles, California
Epstein is providing interior design, as well as M/E/P engineering services, for this $40 million adaptive reuse of this 42-story skyscraper, the largest project of its kind in downtown Los Angeles. The upper 26-stories of this aluminum and concrete tower built in 1967 will be converted from offices into 322 luxury condominiums. The building will also provide 454 parking spaces for residents located on the first three levels.
611 West Sixth Street has been served by a common heating and cooling central system of centrifugal and absorption chillers, as well as gas-fired hot water and steam boilers. Because of the change of use and occupancy of the building, and due to the age of some of the infrastructure, the MEP/FP systems are to be separated for the commercial and residential sections of the building.
Epstein's engineering scope of the services for this project is to provide all new mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems for the residential section of the building and to provide a new and independent heating and cooling central plant which would then tie into the existing distribution system for the commercial and retail spaces. This scope would also include any electrical support for the new commercial central plant.
Epstein's MEP engineers developed a few alternative energy solutions for 611 including incorporating a solar thermal system that would take advantage of the high solar intensity in Los Angeles and heat the proposed swimming pool.
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