GK Engineers provided full MEP design for the campus redesign at Houston County Electric Cooperative’s headquarters in Crockett, about 64,000 SF of new buildings on an occupied campus. The work includes a new administration building with dispatch, offices, a server room, locker rooms and a lineman ready room, plus pre-engineered metal warehouse and support buildings and a reworked utility yard.

Because the co-op dispatches crews around the clock, the electrical work is phased: the existing service and generator stay live while a new utility transformer, normal and emergency distribution and new transfer switches come in, with the communication room powered throughout. The administration building gets its own generator, server room CRAC units, and split DX systems with condensers in a screened mechanical yard.

GK issued the permit set in October 2024 and three addenda through December 2024, including underground refrigerant details the subcontractors had left out of their bids, then reviewed submittals and RFIs through construction.

Image: design rendering.