US Coast Guard Training Center

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US Coast Guard Training Center

Location: Petaluma, CA
Architect: GLASS Architects
Photography: Tom Rider

This 90,000 square foot, three-story steel frame tel/data and electronics technician training facility was provided with state-of-the-art power distribution and electronic equipment grounding systems, as well as a sophisticated wire and cable management distribution system, designed to meet the ever-changing equipment connection requirements that this facility demands. The facility-wide, in-floor cable management system allows regular and rapid routing of system cabling, from any point on any floor of either wing of the facility to any other point - regardless of the distance involved, without disruption of any other system, equipment or classroom in between. Highly sophisticated power conditioning, connection and grounding systems were provided to accommodate the numerous advanced, military-grade navigational, communications and diagnostic/repair equipment available at the time of the original construction, and likely to be developed well into the 21st Century. Highly-specialized approaches to classroom lighting and radio frequency interference-protection were also provided wherever necessary throughout this modern training complex.