LSW Engineers: Projects: Holy Rosary Medical Center

Holy Rosary Medical Center
Ontario, OR
Holy Rosary Medical Center,Ontario, OR

This 22-acre complex is undergoing a five-phase, 100,000 SF expansion program and includes a new central plant. LSW is acting as a subconsultant for the hospital expansion and acted as the prime consultant for the utility master plan and central plant. The plant provides 1,200 tons cooling, a 36,000 -pph steam boiler plant, and 2.0 MW of emergency power.

The hospital expansion includes the following major departments:

Central Sterile Supply
Emergency
Pre-Op
Recovery
Surgery (8 suites)

The central plant includes the following design features:

Campus-wide distribution of normal power, emergency power, chilled water and steam
1,000 foot utility trench
Medical air, compressed air, oxygen, vacuum, and medical gases
Communications and Fire Alarm Systems
Utility Coordination and Negotiation

The emergency power generation system features two diesel generators with paralleling equipment and switchgear located in the central plant. To comply with the residential neighborhood's ambient sound criteria, the cooling towers are equipped with inlet and discharge sound attenuation. The towers use variable frequency drives for capacity control.

Owner: The Dominican Sisters of Ontario
Size: 100,000 SF (expansion)
Construction Cost: $46 Million Expansion Total; $5 Million Central Plant and Distribution
Completion Date: 2002 (building expansion); 2000 (central plant)

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