Tenant Coordination | Central Plant Malls Benefit from MEP Tenant Reviews
Posted on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 @ 08:49 AM
Roger Hauser
rhauser@tesengineering.com
An independent review of Tenant MEP drawings can protect the owner’s investment by ensuring compliance with current mall MEP systems - generating long term cost savings, quicker move-ins, and fewer construction issues. Our drawing reviews help the Landlord confirm a comfortable shopping experience is achieved for the customer.
In central plant malls, many tenant engineers design plans to get “chilled media (air or water)” based on an irreverent corporate-mandated criteria such as 1.5 cfm per square foot in VAV malls and 1 gpm per 100 square foot in chilled water malls, regardless of tenant’s HVAC load calculations. Even worse would be a stipulated requirement in rooftop unit terms of 250 square feet per ton because this criteria doesn’t easily translate into central plant terms.
A basic review of tenant’s drawings will validate the HVAC equipment is sized in accordance with actual tenant HVAC load calculations. A simple clause in the lease agreement stipulating that the tenant’s plans must meet MEP tenant review approval will protect the mall from a tenant who has instructed their engineer to design based on an arbitrary load resulting in over sized equipment or worse, overstated requirements from the Landlord’s central plant. Let the MEP reviewer verify the tenant’s equipment is sized to handle its actual load and maximize mall system efficiency.
TES Engineering has experienced Tenant Coordinators and MEP Engineers who work together to be sure your tenant fits into your building properly.
