Hospital Central Utility Plant Replacement
A new central utility plant for a medical campus, cut over from the old plant without one unplanned loss of power, steam or chilled water.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Southeast
- Market
- Healthcare
- Capital value
- $120M
- Size
- 18 MW · 6,000 tons cooling
- Delivery
- Design-Build
- Duration
- 28 months
- Completed
- 2025
What was at stake.
Every building on the campus depended on the old plant, and it was failing. The new plant had to be built, commissioned and cut over one system at a time, with each outage approved by facilities and clinical leadership. The design-builder's schedule showed construction but not the outage sequence that decided the finish.
How we controlled it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers did on this project.
Outages as activities
Each utility cutover was a named activity with its own prerequisites, approvals and backout plan, linked to the work it depended on.
Commissioning levels
Chillers, boilers, generators and switchgear were tracked through L1 to L5 commissioning, so readiness was measured, not assumed.
Weather windows
Chilled water cutovers were placed in cool months and steam cutovers in mild ones, with the schedule showing what a missed window would cost.
Change control
Every field change was priced and its schedule effect shown before approval, keeping the guaranteed price intact.
The result.
In a utility plant the outage plan is the schedule. Everything else is just getting ready for the outage.
Project controls manager, AdenTurton
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