Consulting-Specifying Engineer - November 2007 - (Page 18) Emergency power for today’s healthcare BY JAMES D. FERRIS, PE, TLC Engineering for Architecture, Healthcare Division, Orlando, Fla. An aging power grid, rolling blackouts, and natural disasters are constant reminders that healthcare facilities must be prepared to operate through m o re t h a n j u s t a f e w hours of power outage. Assessing risks It’s important to get in touch with the utility provider early in the project to determine some of these items. The utility staff can help identify the answers to some of these questions. For example, one hospital client, located in a high-growth area, is on a grid that is expected to have the addition of two commercial supercenters, one office quad, and a high-rise residential building, all within a year. At the same time, the hospital was poised to double in size. Working with the utility, engineers were able to determine that all of these buildings would be fed from one substation. However, the utility was pulling all new dual feeds to each, and replacing the wiring to the hospital with a loop feed. Also, the T here is an even greater need for hospital services during the types of emergencies that cause power events. And it’s a major challenge to the design team to determine the requirements for the emergency power system. As in all engineering projects, it helps to break down the design into individual tasks and decisions. The tasks consist of identifying potential power problems for the hospital, determining the essential system requirements and loads to be served, designing the emergency system, and protecting the system. The capital available for these projects is limited, so for each step, the system design must be evaluated on a cost basis to identify needs versus wants. 18 Consulting-Specifying Engineer • NOVEMBER 2007
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