Control Center
Design
Critical Facilities Expertise
The Leader in System Operations Building Design
You have your vision, now it’s time to add the detail. Lamb’s Detail Design brings to life all of the concepts from your Planning Study, delivering 3-D renderings, detailed drawings, and specifications suitable for permitting and construction. These documents allow you to move seamlessly to competitive bidding for project construction.
Control Centers are the core nerve centers that ensure life’s essentials. It is critical that the design of these facilities is completed with meticulous attention to detail. Our professional Architects and Engineers focus on functionality, efficiency, durability, ergonomics, and 24/7/365 reliability.
With Lamb, you get a fully customized Control Center, planned, designed, constructed, and delivered turnkey from a team whose expertise drives industry best practices.
Control Center. Data Center. Nuclear ERF. Whatever your facility type, Lamb understands and designs it.
See your vision come to life.
Defining Industry Standards
DESIGNS THAT SET YOUR FACILITY APART
Considering a greenfield System Operations Center? Corporate headquarters? Data Center? Need to renovate or expand your existing Control Room? We make the design seamless, adhering to industry best practices for every detail, from the ground up. Utilities and companies of all sizes count on our expertise to deliver their 24/7, next-gen project.
Full-Building Design
We bring all of our design disciplines to bear on:
- Functionality — Day-to-day facility operational needs.
- Structural resilience — Weather hardening up to EF5 tornados, protection from hurricanes and seismic events, EMP shielding for man-made threats.
- Redundancy – MEP based on ANSI/TIA-942.
- Security — NERC-CIP compliance, exterior fencing, barriers and berms, interior cameras, and badging.
- Sustainability — Electric vehicle parking stations, stormwater management, indoor air quality.
Control Room Design
The Control Room is the heartbeat of your operations. Design matters. We design from the operators out, putting their needs at the forefront — from their personal workspace, to how they interact with others, work with technology, and use employee amenities. We develop an environment that helps attract and retain operators, maximizing productivity and situational awareness.
Control Room Ergonomics
Seating and air quality for operator comfort, sight lines to video displays and appropriate lighting to reduce eye strain, acoustics to reduce distractions, all guided by ISO 11064.
Custom-designed Consoles
Ergonomic workstations that offer leading-edge technology, durability, sit-stand capabilities, personal environmental controls, storage, and collaboration spaces.
State-of-the-art Video Solutions
Video display options, such as narrow-bezel LCD, video cubes, and direct-view LED, and innovative processing options.
Adjacencies
Overview and conference rooms, kitchens, break and bunk rooms, and fatigue-mitigation rooms based on client-specific needs.
All Under One Roof
Our Control Center Design Team
Each of our in-house Architects and Engineers has extensive mission-critical expertise — many of them more than 25 years. These are designers who, like you, live and breathe system operations centers. We employ all design disciplines under one roof, where they are accessible and accountable to each of our clients.
Work with a design team with a reputation for excellence.
Architects
Architects
Creative and detail oriented, our Architects develop conceptual and detailed designs for your customized, state-of-the-art Control Center. They design from the operator out, ensuring building codes and ergonomic principles are top of mind.
Civil Engineers
Civil Engineers
Understanding the complexities of zoning and permitting, our Civil Engineers analyze site suitability, stormwater management, security, traffic flow, parking, wetlands, all while adhering to land use regulations and environmental initiatives.
Structural Engineers
Structural Engineers
Meticulous problem solvers, our Structural Engineers design the critical facility’s shell, from foundation to roof, to ensure protection from natural and man-made threats.
Mechanical Engineers
Mechanical Engineers
Our Mechanical Engineers evaluate the most efficient and reliable design options for HVAC, plumbing, and fire protection systems for your Control Center, understanding the technical needs for your critical environment.
Electrical Engineers
Electrical Engineers
Our Electrical Engineers’ goal is to ensure continuous operations. They identify and design for all your system operations power needs, from load calculations and redundant protected sources, to security and appropriate workplace lighting for operators.
EMP Design
EMP Design
Our Control Center designers understand and implement the rapidly developing and highly technical specifications required to protect 24/7 facilities from electromagnetic pulse damage.
Transformative Designs
for your High-Reliability Facility
Designing a mission-critical Control Center is not something most architects do.
We do it every day.
Trust Lamb — your company, investors, operators and customers will thank you.