Dufoe Consulting Engineers

Dufoe Consulting Engineers Our firm specializes in Mechanical Engineering and provides comprehensive HVAC, Control Systems, Plumbing and Fire Protection design services.

11/20/2018

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Dufoe Consulting Engineers! Martinelli's anyone?

We had a great time golfing last Friday with Sillman Wright Architects! Mark Baker, Tanasa Fischer, Jeff Dufoe & Marc St...
10/22/2018

We had a great time golfing last Friday with Sillman Wright Architects!
Mark Baker, Tanasa Fischer, Jeff Dufoe & Marc Stock Encinitas Ranch Golf Course!

Thank you for hosting this years Oktoberfest at last weekend!
10/08/2018

Thank you for hosting this years Oktoberfest at last weekend!

Sustainable designs and protecting our environment are the motivating forces behind DCE designs. DCE single projects, in...
08/19/2015

Sustainable designs and protecting our environment are the motivating forces behind DCE designs. DCE single projects, in excess of 250,000 sq. ft., have exceeded the State of California's stringent Title 24 Energy Requirements by more than 35%, earning our clients hundreds of thousands of dollars in rebates and incentives. Clients such as Qualcomm, Poway Unified, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center and Tri-City Medical Center have utilized DCE's Energy designs.

POWAY UNIFIED SCHOOL #39: Poway Unified School #39, a 22-acre site, included the design and construction of a 156,000 ...
07/23/2015

POWAY UNIFIED SCHOOL #39:
Poway Unified School #39, a 22-acre site, included the design and construction of a 156,000 SF, specialized K-8 school with a capacity of approximately 1,500 students. DUFOE CONSULTING ENGINEERS provided complete HVAC & Plumbing Engineering Design Services for the project, consisting of an administration, two large 2-story classroom buildings complete with several collaborative spaces, ESS/ASES & Student Information Centers and a multipurpose facility which included an 8,000 SF multipurpose-theater room, music facilities, fitness classrooms, boys and girls locker & shower facilities and a full service kitchen with servery and indoor food court. The campus Mechanical and Plumbing systems design utilized high efficiency, variable air volume units in the majority of spaces, high efficiency, fully controllable domestic hot water systems and low water use fixtures.

QUALCOMM COGENERATION PLANTThe Building P Plant project started in early 2013. The project was initiated with a comprehe...
07/22/2015

QUALCOMM COGENERATION PLANT
The Building P Plant project started in early 2013. The project was initiated with a comprehensive piping analysis of the entire chilled water, condenser water and heating water distribution systems. As a result of the study, it was found that the plant required comprehensive upgrades of the chilled and condenser water systems. Through a complex phased approach, our design allowed for the new systems to be installed in parallel of the existing systems, and transitioned to the new systems, to insure there were no periods of outage on the systems critical campus. The piping system hydraulic and 3D models developed by DCE were used to coordinate closely with the structural team to insure building loads did not exceed existing structure capabilities.

QUALCOMM, SAN DIEGO - 'Q' BLDG ADDITION:This challenging project added 237,000 SF on four floors and a basement to the e...
07/13/2015

QUALCOMM, SAN DIEGO - 'Q' BLDG ADDITION:
This challenging project added 237,000 SF on four floors and a basement to the existing building 'Q' to serve an additional 1,000 new employees and provide basic services to nearby buildings for a campus like environment. For this reason the project included a 328 seat Lecture Hall, an indoor Dining Area for 180 people and outdoor dining for 120, a commercial kitchen facility to serve the campus and 42,000 SF of research and development dry computer laboratories.
The project included a main distribution frame, server room and UPS room with redundant unit and system computer room units, protected by a Novec 1230 clean agent fire suppression system. Multiple rack rooms with chilled water in-row cooling units were designed on each laboratory floor. Multiple fan array rooftop air chilled water air handling units provide uninterrupted Variable Air Volume HVAC services to their high power density laboratories and offices, taking advantage of the site's outside air economizer usage potential. A new 4.6 Megawatt natural gas cogeneration plant provides self generated electric power and chilled water for the campus, with a Solar Turbines Mercury 50 natural gas turbine and a1,570 Ton absorption chiller. Plate and frame heat exchangers added to three existing electric chilled water plants allow the campus to make use of the chilled water generated using the turbine's waste heat, with new underground chilled water pipes distributing chilled water to the new and existing buildings. The project had five main phases and packages: Site Grading and Utilities, Central Plant, Parking Garage, Core and Shell, and Tenant Improvement. They were all designed by our MP team using Revit MEP to a BIM Level of Development 300 that allowed critical coordination of multiple utility layers.

DEL LAGO ACADEMY - CAMPUS OF APPLIED SCIENCE:The Del Lago Academy is a specialized small high school for 500 to 800 stud...
07/13/2015

DEL LAGO ACADEMY - CAMPUS OF APPLIED SCIENCE:
The Del Lago Academy is a specialized small high school for 500 to 800 students on a 34-acre site. Final construction cost was approximately $69 million. The school was designed around a village model, with 220 students in two villages at each grade level. The model assigns four teachers to each 110-student village. DUFOE CONSULTING ENGINEERS provided complete HVAC & Plumbing Engineering Design Services for the project, which consisted of an administration, a science and arts building and a multipurpose facility which includes a fitness room and gym. The multipurpose building also has a theater, cafeteria, art rooms, dance room, and library, which will be known as the “academic commons” because of its emphasis on collaborative space. 4 biotech labs on the 2nd floor of the Science and Arts building, the largest being 2,800 square feet, were built to industry standards, mimicking the research space found in local biotech companies.

SHARP HEALTHCARE CHULA VISTA CANCER CENTER:DUFOE CONSULTING ENGINEERS provided complete HVAC and Plumbing Engineering De...
07/13/2015

SHARP HEALTHCARE CHULA VISTA CANCER CENTER:
DUFOE CONSULTING ENGINEERS provided complete HVAC and Plumbing Engineering Design Services for the project, including design of shell space mechanical systems. The facility was designed with full central utility chilled water and heating hot water systems. The central chilled water system is provided with Hartman Loop Plant Optimization Controls. The roof mounted central plant equipment incorporates vibration isolation systems minimizing vibration and sound transmission to occupied spaces within the facility. The facility was provided with redundant multiple fan array air handling units and pressure independent constant air volume boxes. The systems are designed to be compliant with the OSHPD 3 requirements of constant, or monitored variable airflow, to all clinical spaces. The facility HVAC and Lighting Control Systems as well as the Hartman Loop Control systems are integrated into the facility campus wide BAS for minimized energy consumption on the site. The facility is being designed to exceed the requirements of the “California Green Energy Code”.

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San Diego, CA
92123

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Tuesday 7:30am - 5:30pm
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Thursday 7:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 11:30am

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(858) 368-8630

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