MultiCare Health Systems – Auburn Medical Center
PLAN-SPEC
This project consists of two existing patient towers (1975 and 1981). Both are currently fed from their own individual air-handling systems. During the preconstruction phase, MacDonald-Miller worked with MultiCare, Abbott, and the design team on a plan to minimize the impact on patient care by installing one new larger air handling system in a new unoccupied location that will serve as the air handling infrastructure for both towers. The new air handling system will be located on top of the 1981 building’s penthouse. It will not require shutting down either of the building’s air handling systems until the new combined system is installed and fully commissioned.
All the work outlined in Phases 1 & 2 of the project plan occurs on the exterior of the building and will be installed without modification to the existing mechanical systems. In Phase 3 we move into the building interior where a scheduled block of rooms will be removed from service so the new terminal units and low-pressure distribution can be installed. After each block is complete and tied into the new infrastructure, it will be returned to service and a new block of rooms will be removed from service. This will continue until each phase is complete and both buildings are entirely served by the new infrastructure. The final phase of the project takes place within mechanical rooms or on the exterior of the building and consists of removing the old, now abandoned, mechanical infrastructure.
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