Project Details

WFT Engineering provided mechanical, electrical, and fire protection engineering design services for this predominantly electrical fast track design build project. WFT Engineering provided a separate life safety generator and emergency power distribution system for the intensive care suite in the central hospital on the Bethesda campus of the National Institutes of Health. The hospital authorities decided that the intensive care suite was too important to rely on the hospital’s central generator plant for their life safety power support. The client chose to install their own system, which was designed and installed to their specifications exclusively for their own use. WFT Engineering provided the specification for the contractor to pre-order all long lead time equipment prior to the actual design completion, allowing for the equipment to arrive on site at the beginning of the construction phase of the project. This enabled the contractors to simultaneously install all portions of the equipment, dramatically shortening the construction. The design required interface with the existing life safety control system, short circuit calculations, over current protection coordination and system one-line diagram updates.