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GSFC Facilities Challenges

NASA - GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

Agenda

GSFC Facilities at a Glance

Evolving Mission Requirements

Challenges

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GSFC Facilities at a Glance

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GSFC Facilities

IV&V

WSTF/TDRSS

GISS

GBLT

WFF

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CSBF

GSFC Facilities

Facilities at a Glance

1,126

3,724

1,568

8,574

6,187

1,289

1,031

1,149

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Site Area

Gross Building Area

Replacement Value

NASA Site Population

Greenbelt Wallops

Acres

kSF

$M

Employees

Established in 1959

50+ year-old infrastructure

Established in 1945

70+ year-old infrastructure

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Facility Facts

5.7

11.2

140.5

25.0

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8.2

20.0

20.5

3.0

1.0

290.0

155.0

35.0

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Steam Distribution

Chilled Water Distribution

Total Paving

Airfield Paving

Electrical Distribution

Natrual Gas Distribution

Sanitary Sewer

Storm Drainage

Ductbank

Seawall

Fencing

Greenbelt Wallops

Evolving Mission Requirements

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Funding levels and priorities for aging buildings and

infrastructure

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Building “Suitable” facilities to support future GSFC mission is a challenge due to:

• Evolving Mission Set: Certain activities (such as launches at Wallops) have grown, others have

transformed (Mission Communication, Data Centers);

• Configuration: Like-functions and activities are not ideally distributed across a site, which impedes

their efficiency and effectiveness.

1960’s NASA Mission



Future NASA Mission

Technical Requirement Transformation:

The Challenge of Staying Ahead of the Mission

Explorer-1 (1958)

1st US made satellite

JWST (2018)Seeing the 1st light

60 Years Ago Present

Size of Satellite Tennis Racket Tennis Court

Temperature Control +/- 20F +/- 0.50F

Electrostatic Control 5,000V <250V

Molecular Control N/A Silicon material

Technical Requirement Transformation

Current clean rooms require tremendous amount of monitoring

and control to keep facilities within specification

Typical clean room monitoring system display in I&T Complex

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GSFC Master Plan Neighborhoods

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Facility Challenges

Facility Services

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This is what people usually think of when you mention the word "Facilities“…

Traditional

View

•Custodial Services

•Refuse Handling

•Landscaping

•Grass Cutting

•Maintenance and Repair

•Mod and Rehab Program

•Construction Management

•Quality Assurance

•Snow Removal

•Central Plant Operations

•Outage Coordination

•Utilities

•Customer Requirements

•Building Management

Regulatory

Requirements

•Air Permitting & Emission Limitations

•Water Discharges & Monitoring

•Erosion & Sediment Control

•Wetlands Permitting

•Fire Protection & Detection

•Construction Safety

•Mishap Prevention & Investigation

•Contractor Safety

•Hazardous Material Management

•Asbestos / Lead Abatement

•Emergency Preparedness Response

•Land Management

•Reduce the Footprint

Federal

Requirements

•President’s Management Agenda

•Executive Orders

•Mission Criticality Assessment

•Mission Dependency Index

•Master Planning

•Deferred Maintenance

•Facilities Condition Index

•Sustainment Program

•Real Property Authorities

•Space Utilization

•Facility Utilization

•Energy Management Goals

•Pressure Systems Certification

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Achieving Federal Sustainability Requirements

Growth of Environmental Requirements Applicable to Federal Agencies

RHAA AA MBTA

FWCA

HSBAA

FIFRA CAAFAHARSA SWDA

LWCFHUDA HBAWQA 4(f)NHPA FOIA

FAHAFAHAWSRA NEPACAA URAFAHA CWACZMA

MMPA ESASDWAAHPAFNWA TSCAMSFCMA

RCRA SWDACAA EO 11990

EO 11998CWA CRAARPA CERCLA

ANILCA LAAFPPA RRA

CBRA HSWAEPCRAEWRA

STURRA CWACAAA

NAGPRA ADACZARA OPASNARTA ISTEA

EO 12898MMPA EO 13007

SDWA EO 13061EO 13101 TEA-21EO 13089 EO 13112EO 13148 EO 13186

EO 13212EO 13211EO 13221 EO 13302

EO 13327 EISA

EO 13423EO 13514

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Apollo Future ProgramsShuttle

Facilities Challenges

Funding levels and priorities for aging buildings and infrastructure

Staying ahead of mission


Adapt to climate change (not only environmental but also policies)

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Funding levels and priorities for aging buildings and

infrastructure

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• Approximately 75 percent of GSFC facilities are more than 50 years old and need

significant maintenance and upgrades to preserve the safety and continuity of

operations for critical missions;

In FY15 GSFC spent $22.7M (58%) out of $39M of Facilities funding on annual

maintenance, yet still retained a maintenance backlog of $18.8M. This includes

$3.4M in major repairs (<$25K), and $15.4M in routine maintenance;

• At these current maintenance funding levels, facilities will continue to

degrade – leading to a “run to failure” philosophy;

• Even if current risk is considered acceptable, failures will increase over time

without an increase in maintenance funding.

Obsolescence of facilities and supporting infrastructure makes it difficult to

support latest technology flight systems and maintain state of the art technical

capabilities;

Current Agency policy to ‘Reduce the Footprint’ requires a greater than 1:1 ratio

on new construction.

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Staying ahead of the Mission

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New Executive Orders such as 13693, Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade, shape the metrics of the Federal government sustainability goals, which in turn has required GSFC to:

Update Master Plans and Capital Improvement Plans to inform construction and demolition investments;

Recognize operational and mission risks, such as: direct mission risks (schedule, cost, technical); safety, security and health; legal requirements; and climate risks (short term, long term, and extreme events) in all facility designs;

Assess climate change vulnerabilities with partners in the local community and state and federal neighbors; and

Design NET Zero buildings for all new construction

A building that is design, constructed, and operated to require a greatly reduced quantity of energy to operate, meet the balance of energy needs from sources of energy that do not produce greenhouse gases and be economically viable. (Executive Order 13514 definition of zero-net-energy building).

Achieving Federal Sustainability Requirements, con’t

Adaptability: decisions at the inception of project design to incorporate elements and concepts that will assist with future adaptations to a building can facilitate change in the future;

Building to readily facilitate horizontal and vertical expansion;Analyzing the building structural concept, i.e. structural grid, dimensions, and floor-to-

floor heights that allow for flexibility in internal layouts; demountable walls;Functional Quality: decisions to incorporate the use of hard walls for offices and workspaces vs. flexible 'furniture' systems have a significant impact on functionality of a building;

Buildings support multiple functions: office/laboratory/server rooms;

Existing buildings are not optimized for energy efficiency; Older buildings with HVAC systems designed in 1960’s;

Laboratories or server rooms adjacent to office areas;Offices that used to be laboratories or server rooms.

Adapt to climate change – Challenges

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Energy Climate change has the potential to create new and unaccounted energy demands on an already

challenged facilities system;

Bringing climate change into facility capital investment discussions provides a potential catalyst for empowering decision makers on Center to engage the problem and solutions.

Water Goddard needs to develop a strategic vision for water management and sustainable site design for

the next 20 years and utilize it to leverage resources to implement the Center vision – Chesapeake Bay.

Sea Level Rise Models predict sea level rise poses a real risk to Wallops Island infrastructure and assets within the

next 100 years;Structures and equipment will be elevated, as practicable, to as much as 13 feet above sea level.

Wallops Island Shoreline Before and After Restoration

Wallops Island Shoreline Restoration In Action

Adapt to climate change - Challenges

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Other Climate Change Effects

Communication, appreciation, and cooperation of operational and cultural changes to Center personnel are critical to meet the facilities demands for future missions; End users needs sometimes are in conflict with the need to find ways to reduce

energy load, increase efficiency, and maximize the use of renewable energy sources in federal facilities;

The strategic vision must include providing resources for maintenance of structures once they have been installed. These costs are expected to have significant impacts on the CM&O budget.

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GSFC Facilities Challenges

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