The Project
St. Mary’s Regional Hospital needed to replace aging electrical infrastructure that had operated well beyond its service life. The modernization required replacing all primary electrical systems while maintaining uninterrupted patient care across the hospital campus.
Project Challenges
Maintaining 24/7 hospital operations: The replacement required hundreds of coordinated overnight outages, each planned around patient care schedules with independent provisions for temporary power.
Relocating from the basement to the roof: All existing electrical equipment was located in the hospital’s lower level, with no space to relocate it within the building. This required creating a new electrical room on the hospital roof.
Moving massive emergency power loads: The hospital’s three generators carried critical power throughout the campus. Relocating the infrastructure meant safely transmitting enormous electrical loads across the facility.
No room for equipment disruption: Moving large, heavy electrical equipment from the basement to the roof while maintaining operations demanded creative logistics and precise coordination.
The Solution
Conducted comprehensive facility assessment to evaluate existing conditions, identify risks, and develop recommendations for hospital leadership on project scope and pricing.
Managed contractor selection process through competitive RFP, ensuring St. Mary’s secured qualified teams capable of executing complex work.
Engineered innovative pathway for electrical distribution by repurposing an underutilized elevator bank as a vertical conduit, routing power from the basement to the new rooftop electrical equipment.
Coordinated hundreds of overnight outages, maintaining hospital operations while crews installed new equipment, paralleling gear, and transmission infrastructure.
Achieved significant cost savings through strategic contractor negotiations and value engineering, even while upgrading breakers to meet higher power transmission requirements.
Standout Numbers
50%
Savings from initial contractor pricing
100s
Of overnight outages coordinated and executed
0
Unplanned interruptions to hospital operations
