Our second ‘IFHE’ article this month looks at the challenges of an emergency power generation equipment renewal project at full-service, 1,100 patient-bed hospital in Toronto.
Philip Chow, P.Eng, a senior project manager at H.H. Angus & Associates, ‘one of Canada’s oldest and largest private consulting engineering firms’, and Michael McRitchie, of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto in Canada, describe an emergency power generation equipment renewal project at the 1,100-bed hospital undertaken to increase the facility’s resilience and available capacity, which should also significantly cut its utility costs.
Emergency power systems are a lifeline for healthcare facilities. These plants provide an independent source of electricity to support vital systems on loss of normal power supply – a more likely occurrence today, given the increase in extreme weather events. It is no wonder then that facility managers are concerned when this all-important electrical equipment needs to be upgraded. They are faced with the challenge of replacing the critical infrastructure while minimising service disruptions and maintaining an operational means of back-up power. This is what Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre faced when it undertook a project to replace its existing emergency power generating plant in its entirety.
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