GK Engineers provided full MEP design for Little Stars’ conversion of an existing single-story building in Texas City into a Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Center, a state-licensed day facility for medically fragile children. The program includes nursing stations, an isolation room, oxygen storage, linen rooms and children’s bathing.

Three gas-heat rooftop units carry MERV 13 filters, UV lights, hot gas reheat and economizers, and exhaust fans hold ASHRAE 170 pressure relationships, with the isolation room on its own roof fan. A new 200A, 277/480V service feeds a service-rated transfer switch and an 80 kW natural gas generator sized to the state’s emergency power rule, with life safety, critical and equipment branch panels.

The permit set was issued in October 2024 and carried through city comments and two rounds of state licensing review in 2025, with GK site visits during construction and rated assembly details for the state’s life safety survey in February 2026. The owner has engaged GK again for its Woodlands and Katy centers.