Project
Profiles
Kaiser Baldwin Park Medical Center,
Infrastructure Replacement
Project Overview
Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center
is set to undertake an estimated $180 million
infrastructure upgrade project. We’re providing our
mechanical and plumbing design expertise for this
replace and rebuild effort at the hospital, central
utility plant building, and medical office building.
Our team is replacing existing air handling
units, chillers, heat exchangers, cooling towers,
humidifiers, fan coil units, exhaust fans, and
controls. In the first phase, we are providing design
options which will include sustainable design for
each system to lower the building Energy Use
Intensity (EUI) from 230 to 160. The strategies will
include heat recover chiller design to save heat
energy on the domestic hot water system, convert
constant air volume distribution to variable air
volume system, design air handlers with separate
cold and hot decks to optimize economizer mode,
to name just a few of our improvements. The new
Direct Digital Control (DDC) system will optimize
the building’s energy use and will automate the
entire HVAC and plumbing systems to minimize
maintenance.
As part of the project, P2S provided BIM modeling
for all relevant infrastructure, including 3D laser
scanning for all mechanical and electrical rooms.
Kaiser has benefitted greatly from the more
accurate models and full mapping of their site
infrastructure at Baldwin Park.
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