Healthcare

Central plant in continuously operating acute care facilities.

In a hospital the mechanical plant is clinical infrastructure, and we treat it that way. Scope is defined against ASHRAE 170, NFPA 99 and NFPA 110, and Joint Commission utilities-management requirements, with testing intervals and documentation carried as obligations under the agreement.

Where we participate

We own the plant, and the availability risk.

We acquire the installed plant, carry the replacement program across the term, and hold the availability risk against contracted standards. Work is phased around clinical operation under a written plan agreed with the facility.

Assessment scope

Acute care facility

Group

Systems

CP

Central plant – chillers, boilers, cooling towers, pumping, primary distribution

AHU

Air handling and terminal units serving surgical, procedural, isolation, and inpatient areas

EPS

Emergency and standby power, switchgear, and distribution

BAS

Building automation, metering, and controls

GEN

On-site generation, heat recovery, and ground-source conversion where site conditions permit

Defined

Per asset, in the agreement

Measured

Continuously

Reported

To the owner

Regulatory framework

Scope is designed against the standards applied at survey.

ASHRAE 170

NFPA 99

NFPA 110

Joint Commission EC / UM

Ventilation rates, essential electrical performance, and environment-of-care documentation are specified at scope definition and reported continuously. Records are delivered to the facility as they are produced.

Community and rural hospitals

Capital access narrows sharply below the multi-hospital system. Plant replacement requirements do not.

Most of our work is here.

Assessment

Begin with an assessment of the plant.

Provided to the owner on completion.