Client: Dillard University
Location: New Orleans, LA
Sector: Facilities
Services Provided: Civil, Structural, Mechanical, & Electrical Engineering; Construction Administration
As the prime consultants, Infinity provided civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering designs for the improvements and upgrades to multiple systems throughout the Dillard University campus. The projects ranged from civil road work to electrical lighting and low voltage communications systems.
The designs included the removal of an existing guard shack and foundation in order to realign the entrance and intersecting roads to provide access control via a new guard shack. The roadway realignment also widened the existing roadway, drainage modifications, roadway curbs, sidewalks, and building landing and exit stairs in the parking lot of Albert W. Dent Hall. These designs allow for safe 2-way vehicular travel within that section of the roadway.
The new guard shack was built on a new foundation slab and automated for Wi-Fi, HVAC, and CCTV. Campus site lighting was installed under the oaks at the front of the university campus and a new circuit from the guard shack provides underground power to each fixture. Campus site security designs included the installation of a security intelligence system campus wide, point to point communication via a new fiber optic loop around campus to tie into new access control, new cameras, and new intelligence system, card access to walking gates with new camera surveillance, cameras at guard booths including a license plate reader camera at each booth, and repair of turnstiles at two entrances with the addition of card readers for access. Miscellaneous parking lot pavement repairs, directional signage, bike parking, sidewalks, and trash receptacles were also included in the designs.
