DESCRIPTION: This project included renovations and addition for a new surgical suite, new post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) space, and renovation of the existing surgery space to an LDR suite.

The electrical design included extensive modification to the main service electrical equipment and renovation of the emergency power system, including replacement and upsizing the existing emergency generator. The emergency power system renovation also included new NEC 517 emergency power branches for the new and renovated areas.

LOCATION: St. Maries, Idaho
CLIENT: Benewah Community Hospital
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: OMS Architects – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

DESCRIPTION: This project includes additions of the Endoscopy and the Supply, Processing and Distribution (SPD) areas. Both additions are second floor additions to existing structures, and include renovations where intertied to the existing second floor structure.

The Endoscopy addition includes exam rooms, four (4) procedure rooms, pre and post-op bays, scope/equipment storage, clean and soiled utility rooms, waiting and reception areas.

The SPD addition includes lab offices, equipment storage, scope cleaning, cart washing, prep and sterilization rooms, prep/sterilization storage, decontamination rooms, sterilizers, a walk-in lab cooler, lab storage, and a service elevator.

LOCATION: Spokane, Washington
FACILITY SIZE: 20,100 Square Feet
CLIENT: U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: NAC|Architecture – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design

LOCATION: Medical Lake, Washington
CLIENT: Washington State, Department of Social and Health Services
DELIVERY METHOD: N/A
PRIME CONSULTANT: Apollo Solutions Group – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical Consulting

DESCRIPTION: Lakeland Village is a state operated 24-hour facility with 52 buildings that provides all facets of training, education and health care for about 250 individuals with developmental disabilities. Lakeland Village is federally certified for 60 Nursing Facility (NF) beds and 190 Intermediate Care Facility/Mental Retardation (ICF/MR) beds.

The existing generator backed power system consists of a single emergency generator routed thru a step up transformer to feed a 15kV automatic transfer switch. The switch feeds a primary loop system with associated pad-mount transformers. Individual transformers are aggregated to serve multiple buildings and loads.

While this is one of the most efficient means of distributing generator backed power across the campus, unfortunately, it no longer meets current code, especially when buildings with different classifications are connected together. This study reviewed the existing campus generator backed power system, determined load calculations of the existing system and individual buildings, provided recommendations to bring each building up to current code, and provided budgeting for upgrades based upon the recommendations.

Multiple scenarios for replacement of the generation equipment were considered including utilization of distributed generation across the campus, utilization of a single generator, with different transfer switch configurations, and utilization of paralleling equipment with multiple generators for redundancy.

DESCRIPTION: Lakeland Village is a state operated 24-hour facility with 52 buildings that provides all facets of training, education and health care for about 250 individuals with developmental disabilities. Lakeland Village is federally certified for 60 Nursing Facility (NF) beds and 190 Intermediate Care Facility/Mental Retardation (ICF/MR) beds.

This energy-saving project involves replacing the two existing 225 ton campus chillers with two 300 ton units. Additionally outdated chilled water supply and return pumps were replaced along with the exterior cooling towers. Electrical work included replacement of the existing service entrance switchgear, modification of the existing motor control centers to include new VFD’s and harmonic filtering.

LOCATION: Medical Lake, Washington
CLIENT: Department of Social and Health Services
DELIVERY METHOD: ESCO
PRIME CONSULTANT: Apollo Solutions Group – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical Consulting

DESCRIPTION: The master plan was designed to find ways to consolidate the utilities, services, and functions between three distinct but contiguous DSHS (Department of Social and Health Services) campuses comprised of Eastern State Hospital, Lakeland Village, and Pine Lodge Corrections Center. The master plan was in response to the need to address some of the failing infrastructure across the Medical Lake Campus, with the goal of reducing the capital costs associated with upgrading the failing infrastructure. The information and estimates provided in the master plan was used by DSHS to develop their ten year capital request for the Medical Lake Campus.

LOCATION: Medical Lake, Washington
FACILITY SIZE: 1,575,000 Square Feet
CLIENT: Washington State, Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS)
ARCHITECT: NAC|Architecture – Spokane, Washington
Deneff Deeble Barton Associates – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical and Low Voltage System Planning

DESCRIPTION: The Clearwater Valley Medical Clinic provides a 20,000 square foot medical clinic separated from the Clearwater Valley Hospital to provide distinction between the two functions. The medical clinic consists of imaging, exam, office and physical therapy space and also provides classroom and conference rooms for local community events. The electrical design includes normal power, lighting, fire alarm, data/telephone, fire alarm and signaling systems.

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LOCATION: Orofino, Idaho
FACILITY SIZE: 20,142 Square Feet
CLIENT: Clearwater Valley Hospital
DELIVERY METHOD: Design-Bid-Build (DBB)
ARCHITECT: NAC|Architecture – Spokane, Washington
CONTRACTOR: Walker Construction – Spokane, Washington
SERVICES PROVIDED: Electrical System Design