CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL OFFICE BUILD ING CINCINNATI, OHIO Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is among the top five children’s hospitals in the country. Founded in 1883, Cincinnati Children’s provides family-centered care and pioneering research in pediatric medicine. Ex- periencing significant growth in its patient care practices serving children with disabilities, expansion was a must. With a desire to expand, while at the same time serving the redevelopment needs of the Avondale neighborhood just across Burnet Avenue from its main campus, Cincinnati Children’s stepped in with a major proposal. They would build a new medical office building as a key element of the Avondale revitalization effort. One of the first steps to be taken in the Burnet Avenue Revitalization was a master plan. DNK Architects, Dynamix Engineering and The Neyer Company, the construction manager, partnered to refine and implement the planned revitalization effort led by Cincinnati Children’s investment. DNK Architects designed the new medical offices for the best in care plus the utmost in convenience for the young patients and their families as they moved from the institution’s campus to a neighborhood setting. In turn, Dynamix Engineering designed the HVAC system to provide patients and staff with the highest level of comfort, air quality and reliability. Environmental Air Products Strategy ClimateCraft’s local representative, Environmental Air Products, had a long history of doing business with Children’s Hospital and enjoyed a good relationship with the owner. Children's had used another air handling manufacturer for a previous building, but asked EAP to get involved with the Medical Office Building project upon learning about ClimateCraft’s new FanMatrix™system. To help then learn more, Bill Stacey, Sr. of EAP, took representatives of Children’s to Northwest Community Hospital in Chicago, where ClimateCraft had installed several large FanMatrix units. The representative from Children’s was very impressed and upon returning asked the consulting engineer, who had already designed the MOB’s HVAC system using a competitor’s product, to include ClimateCraft as an acceptable bidder. In addition he asked the consulting engineer to add some key features of the FanMatrix design.
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Mar 13, 2016
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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is among the top five children’s hospitals in the country. Founded in 1883, Cincinnati Children’s provides family-centered care and pioneering research in pediatric medicine. Ex-periencing significant growth in its patient care practices serving children with disabilities, expansion was a must. With a desire to expand, while at the same time serving the redevelopment needs of the Avondale neighborhood just across Burnet Avenue from its main campus, Cincinnati Children’s stepped in with a major proposal. They would build a new medical office building as a key element of the Avondale revitalization effort. One of the first steps to be taken in the Burnet Avenue Revitalization was a master plan. DNK Architects, Dynamix Engineering and The Neyer Company, the construction manager, partnered to refine and implement the planned revitalization effort led by
Cincinnati Children’s investment. DNK Architects designed the new medical offices for the best in care plus the utmost in convenience for the young patients and their families as they moved from the institution’s campus to a neighborhood setting. In turn, Dynamix Engineering designed the HVAC system to provide patients and staff with the highest level of comfort, air quality and reliability.
Environmental Air Products Strategy ClimateCraft’s local representative, Environmental Air Products, had a long history of doing business with Children’s Hospital and enjoyed a good relationship with the owner. Children's had used another air handling manufacturer for a previous building, but asked EAP to get involved with the Medical Office Building project upon learning about ClimateCraft’s new FanMatrix™system. To help then learn more, Bill Stacey, Sr. of EAP, took representatives of Children’s to Northwest Community Hospital in Chicago, where ClimateCraft had installed several large FanMatrix units. The representative from Children’s was very impressed and upon returning asked the consulting engineer, who had already designed the MOB’s HVAC system using a competitor’s product, to include ClimateCraft as an acceptable bidder. In addition he asked the consulting engineer to add some key features of the FanMatrix design.
The key features included individual fan isolation and the ability to make fan selections that achieved the design fan operating point at 60Hz. A 60Hz design condition was critical, as hospital personnel wanted full design CFM capability if the unit ever had to operate on mechanical bypass. Ultimately, although the pricing was about equal, the purchasing contractor, Peck Hannaford and Briggs chose EAP’s proposal and the ClimateCraft FanMatrix product was provided. Bill Stacey brought the customer to the ClimateCraft Oklahoma City factory for inspection and testing of the unit before shipping.
ClimateCraft’s fan array products allow for fans to be turned off for safety, repair, and maintenance purposes. ClimateCraft’s fan array products are not designed to turn individual fans on and off for the purpose of improving fan array efficiency, and ClimateCraft does not endorse turning individual fans on and off for the purpose of improving fan array efficiency. Any statement to the contrary is not supported by ClimateCraft.
As a result of this experience, Bill is working on another 95,000 CFM FanMatrix Unit for Children’s Hospital. ClimateCraft is being used as the basis of design. The Children’s FanMatrix unit is rated at 160,000 CFM and 8.0” TSP, and consists of two 80,000 CFM air tunnels each with return fan economizer section, prefilter section, heating and cooling coil sections, humidifier section, supply fan section and provision for HEPA filters. Each return fan FanMatrix consists of 4 towers with two fans each and each supply fan FanMatrix section consists of 4 towers with 3 fans each. Both tunnels can operate simultaneously for full CFM, or independently during routine maintenance or service. The overall design provided Children’s with high levels of efficiency, redundancy, reliability and serviceability, and quiet operation. The witness testing of the air handler was done in the ClimateCraft Oklahoma City factory. The unit was tested for cabinet leakage, air delivery, and vibration and all tests exceeded the customer’s expectations.
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