Beehive Clothing Facility - The Beehive Clothing building in American Fork, Utah is a large, state-of-the-art sewing facility. Beehive Clothing was designed with several unique mechanical and electrical systems, including displacement ventilation, outside air heat recovery, ice storage, indirect cooling economizer, light harvesting and dimming fluorescents. Besides possessing a security control system that manages card access and security detection and a building management and control system (BMCS) that maintains occupant safety and comfort by managing and controlling comfort and safety systems via direct digital controls (DDC), Beehive Clothing takes control to the next level.
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Facility managers are able to monitor levels, capacities, temperatures and other variables for a variety of systems and machinery, such as boilers, chillers, and lighting systems, from one location in the building using a graphical user interface on a PC. The BMCS and security systems send the information over phone lines so that managers may access the information from the main Beehive Clothing facility in Salt Lake City.
The use of natural lighting and integrated lighting controls maintains comfortable, safe and evenly distributed lighting levels (70 foot candles). The lighting system may be powered down, or some rows of lights may be switched off, while natural, indirect light illuminates the space. Baffles suspended from the ceiling help to reduce glare. As light reaches the interior through four modified clerestories, it hits the baffles and is diffused, mitigating uncomfortable and unsafe glare issues.
Air compressors, used to power pneumatic sewing machines, and the building’s chillers are connected to the BMCS, which monitors these systems and will notify facility managers and the main Beehive facility in Salt Lake City if there is a problem. DDC sensors and switches can automatically shut down equipment if there is a problem (i.e. if dangerous freon is detected escaping from the chillers).
Proper design and programming of these control and management systems provides control of the various technologies found throughout the building, increasing efficiency and ease of operation. It is the graphical, intuitive, point-and-click man-machine interface that makes it possible for facility managers with minimal technical training to effectively control, start, stop and adjust these energy saving systems. Without such easy-to-use controls, the mechanical and electrical systems designed and installed to save energy may not be able to do so.
Total Building Commissioning commissioned the following systems:
• Building Management Control Systems (BMCS)
• Direct Digital Controls (DDC)
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