The mechanical redesign proposal for Agricultural Engineering Building located at University Park, Pennsylvania was done on this report. Technical Reports 1, 2, and 3 helped developed the the redesign and the breadth topics as well.

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The main focus of the mechanical redesign is to do a economical analysis comparison on having building’s own cooling and heating plant and connected to the campus utility loop. A thorough examination will be performed for operating cost, connection cost, building energy usage, and break even point. For the cooling plant, two chillers were selected, centrifugal air cooled and water cooled chiller with cooling tower for the comparison. Another alternative is the heating plant redesign, looking at condensing and non condensing, and electric boiler. Using the model from the Tech Report 3 as the baseline, the Trace700 will be used to model and do life cycle cost analysis.

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The breadth topics includes acoustical analysis on the mechanical equipments and isolation requirements and the daylighting analysis on overhangs at east and north windows. Lastly, the work schedule for spring semester was drafted.