Facility / MEP Design

The objective of this project was to solicit for Engineering, Design, and Construction Phase Services for a new Office of System Safety Department (OSSD) building to house the Harmon Yard Fire Brigade and Safety department. These offices were located in Buildings #6 and #14 in Metro-North’s (MNR) Harmon Yard. This facility is located near the entrance to the Harmon Yard to provide maximum support to all facilities in the yard. The scope was limited to providing Metro-North Railroad with a workable existing site and utility plan at the proposed building location as well as a brief description of the civil, geotechnical, and structural design requirements related to the new facility.

Garg Consulting Services, Inc. (Garg) provided the redesign of the Metro-North Office of System Safety Facility at Harmon Yard.

- Structural Design: As part of structural design Garg designed timber roof trusses, floor, load bearing walls, and shear walls per the Building Code 2015 of New York State. Modified the previous foundation design to accommodate new structure configuration and requirements.
- Site investigation, site survey, and subsurface investigations
- Landscaping-xeriscaping and storm water management
- Passive design, Day lighting, and LED Lighting
- Water conservation
- High efficiency building envelope
- Flood resiliency
- Green Codes
- Enhanced sustainable strategies