Service: Mechanical Engineering
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
Expansion Program
The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre is the only hospital in Barrie serving city residents as well as patients from a large geographical region, including Simcoe County and the districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound. It specializes in acute care, cancer care, surgical services, critical care, mental health rehabilitation services, and women and children’s programs.
HH Angus undertook a major development / expansion / renovation program of 300,000 ft2, including:
- new four-bunker Cancer Centre
- new/expanded Emergency Department
- new/expanded Diagnostic Imaging Department
- surgical suite expansion
- addition of six 34-bed patient pods
- infrastructure upgrades, including re-routing and upgrading incoming 44KV services and additional diesel generator capacity
- extension and upgrades to various building systems such as chillers, boilers, fire alarm, nurse call, security & CCTV, and the Building Automation System.
The project was conducted through Infrastructure Ontario as a design build construction, with the Hospital retaining control of the design. HH Angus worked closely with the Hospital under tight time constraints to successfully design and implement a phasing plan that allowed the Hospital to continue operation during construction, and to produce a concise set of documents suitable for competitive tendering.
The project was heavily phased and much detail was spent on determining how the mechanical and electrical design was to be integrated with the phasing. The concept, design and contract document stage was completed in about twelve months.
As the redevelopment doubled the size of the facility and the existing heating and cooling plants could not be expanded due to space constraints, a second plant was constructed. To help the Hospital with operations and to improve redundancy, HH Angus integrated the two plants so that each plant could heat/cool the entire facility under restricted operation. The existing control system was upgraded and expanded so that Facilities Management could manage a single control system for both new and existing areas.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Lighting Design
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 300,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 2013
LOCATION
Barrie, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Major development, expansion and renovation | Phased construction to permit ongoing operation | Second heating and cooling plant integrated with existing plant
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
M-Wing
HH Angus has been providing mechanical and electrical engineering at the Sunnybrook campus since 1945. The complex now totals more than 2,000,000 ft2. In that time, a great many individual projects have been successfully delivered.
M Wing was a major redevelopment project. Other large project examples from our work at Sunnybrook include the Toronto Sunnybrook Cancer Centre and the Sunnybrook High Voltage Emergency Power Renewal.
M Wing
The expanded M Wing facility benefits Sunnybrook’s functioning in many ways: the main entrance now features a retail galleria with a pharmacy, gift shop, courtyard café and optical services; it provides more convenient patient pick-up and drop-off areas, and bus and taxi stops, and M Wing supports increased cancer care services.
M Wing was built in two phases - an initial 5-storey building with a four storey addition, under the Redevelopment Phase. The addition was approximately 620,000 ft2. M Wing consolidated services that had been dispersed throughout the hospital, including:
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 200,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 2010
LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Redevelopment of M Wing | Added retail galleria with a pharmacy | Introduced patient pick-up and drop-off area | Renovation in a 5-storey building with an additional 4-storey that helped consolidate services throughout the hospital
- 16 operating rooms to replace the aging surgical suite
- An 18-bed critical care unit and a 12-bed cardiovascular intensive care unit
- Support services for the new surgical suite and critical care units, including new central sterile processing
- Expanded outpatient services
- Expanded radiology services
- A new surgical day procedure service incorporating specimen collection, a testing centre, day surgery, minor procedures, urology/cytoscopy and pain clinic
- Perinatal and gynecology program (relocated from Women’s College Hospital)
M Wing was a major redevelopment project.
Other large project examples from our work at Sunnybrook include The Toronto Sunnybrook Cancer
Centre and the Sunnybrook High Voltage Emergency Power Renewal.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
High Voltage Emergency Power Renewal
HH Angus has been providing mechanical and electrical engineering at the Sunnybrook campus since 1945. The complex now totals more than 2,000,000 ft2. In that time, a great many individual projects have been successfully delivered. The high voltage emergency power renewal described below was a large infrastructure improvement project. Other large project examples from our work at Sunnybrook include M Wing and the Toronto Sunnybrook Cancer Centre.
High Voltage Emergency Power Renewal
The renewal project involved replacement and upgrades of existing forty-year-old standby generators and associated infrastructure. The specifics included: installation of 8.75MW of diesel generators, new medium voltage switchgear, a selective catalytic reduction system for each new generator (for emissions control), fuel oil system upgrades and replacement of a campus-wide PLC-based load management system. The selective catalytic reduction systems allow Sunnybrook to use their plant for offsetting peak loads during summer months and to realize savings in annual hydro expenditures.
The high voltage emergency power renewal project replaced the existing 4160V generating capacity of 4.3MW with 8MW of new 4160V generating capacity. A 600V, 750kW generator replaced an existing 400kW generator.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Prime Consultant
PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Completed 2015
LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Large infrastructure improvement project involving architectural and structural design for a building plenum expansion | Installed 8.75MW diesel generator | Added selective catalytic reduction system for each new generator | Multi-phase project to ensure service redundancy for critical functions
Prime consulting services
HH Angus was the Prime Consultant, as well as the electrical and mechanical engineer for the project. We retained the services of an architect and structural engineer to design a building plenum expansion for the new diesel generators. The general trades work included extensive structural steel work, excavation and concrete work.
HH Angus managed equipment procurement for the project and helped Sunnybrook Health Sciences select an equipment supplier to provide a .9 million CDN (2013) equipment package.
Phasing for service redundancy
The project was multi-phased to allow temporary power to maintain service redundancy for critical healthcare functions while existing diesel generators were decommissioned and the new structure constructed and plant equipment installed.
Confidential Client
Data Centre Refresh & Expansion
This 1992-designed data centre had reached its capacity in power, white floor space and cooling. With hot spots and legacy equipment throughout, the entire power plant needed replacement.
This was a major project to conduct on a live data centre for a premier financial institution. From 2008 to 2013, HH Angus was involved in more than 15 projects on the site. Starting with “bridge” programs to get the data centre through difficult transitions in data, power and cooling deficiencies, to the completion of a 6 MW power upgrade with new power plant and cooling capabilities that allowed for the complete removal of the aged UPS and generator systems. This required hundreds of hours of planning and phased construction, including temporary generators and additional UPSs.
As Prime Consultant for all the projects, HH Angus was responsible for structural, architectural, noise abatement and air emissions subconsultants. We managed the contracts and contractors for the mission critical facility - everything from MOP, design, schedules, budgets and strategies planning were within our role and responsibilities.
The largest single project was $80M in value and involved an expansion with new generators, UPS, batteries and distribution gear. The new facility was then tied into the existing building infrastructure, path by path, until the entire building was brought over to the new infrastructure.
Reconfiguring the rack layouts assisted in optimizing cooling capabilities, upgrading capacity of undersized CRAC units, while at the same time implementing tighter cooling tactics with hot and cold aisle and ducted returns.
We then converted the entire DX building plant to a chilled water system in a 100% loaded 7/24 data centre, providing large savings in capital expense and lower operating costs by over $100,000 per year. The program was incorporated into a roof replacement and CRAC equipment refresh that saved more than $1 million in deferred capital expenses.
HH Angus was deeply involved in supporting the confidential data centre’s strategy over six years. Our roles included Strategic Planning, Feasibility Analysis, Prime Consulting, Procurement, MEP Engineering, and Commissioning services. The projects were many and varied, from condition assessment reports and feasibility studies, to a significant number of small to large projects to meet the challenges of rapidly evolving data centre business needs.
SERVICES
Prime Consultant | Strategic Planning | Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Communications Design
PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Completed 2013
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Introduced multiple projects over five years to replace entire power plant in a live, mission-critical data centre | ‘Bridge’ projects required to support transitions in data, power and cooling deficiencies | 6 MW power upgrade | Conversion of DX building plant to chilled water system, resulting in large CAPEX savings and $100K+ OPEX savings
Government of Canada Public Works
Millhaven Penitentiary, New Maximum Housing Unit
Millhaven Penitentiary is a maximum institution serving 400+ male offenders. It opened in 1971 and was built to replace Kingston Penitentiary, another maximum security prison (now closed). A riot at the Kingston Penitentiary forced Millhaven to open prematurely.
The Millhaven facility is in Bath Ontario, near Kingston and, together with a lower security prison, occupies 640 acres. Millhaven also comprises the federal intake assessment unit, and is one of two identically-designed institutions; the other is in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec.
This project represents the fourth of four residential-style living units on site. It created 96 new cells at the facility. HH Angus and Associates reviewed the federally-approved standard plans for prison housing and designed adaptations unique to this site, in order to permit construction of the new facility within the existing compound.
HH Angus conducted a review of the electrical infrastructure, and reworked mechanical loads to suit new climatic conditions. As well, we updated documents to ensure compatibility with current ASHRAE standards.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 38,500 ft2 | Status: Completed 2013
LOCATION
Kingston, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Provided federally-approved standard designs for prison housing | Reviewed & reworked electrical and mechanical infrastructure to suit new climate conditions | ASHRAE standards