King County Multi-Service Center

The King County North Multi-Service Center is a 25 year old facility providing health care, mental health counseling, and other county services to the public.

The aging mechanical systems on this 36,000 sf building were becoming unreliable, inadequate and noisy. The FSi team was selected by the County partially based on its experience working in occupied facilities. FSi worked with the county to develop the scope given the available funding, and met with the permitting agency to negotiate an electrical clearance variance. FSi assembled a mechanical bid package that detailed the limitations on the contractor including two phasing sheets detailing the various evening and weekend hours the individual spaces would be available for construction, and the requirement that the contractor have the system fully functional by morning. Even given this challenging phasing and operational constraints in a volatile bidding climate, the mechanical bid was within 2% of FSi’s estimate.