McKenney’s team worked closely with Atlanta Medical Center to successfully develop a plan that would minimize downtime, maintain equipment redundancy, and maximize available boiler capacity throughout construction of the new boiler plant.

1. Performing Mechanical
“Heart Surgery” at Atlanta Medical Center

2. Atlanta Medical Center, formally known as Georgia Baptist, was
originally founded in 1901, and has been an Atlanta landmark since the
1940’s. Last fall, McKenney’s worked in conjunction with The Segars
Group on plans to replace the facilities aging central steam plant.

3. This plant is considered the “heart” of the facility by providing vital
steam to not only the HVAC systems, but also critical hospital systems
such as the sterilizers, domestic hot water, and kitchens. Given the
critical nature of the facility, where people’s lives are at stake, it is
crucial that there would be no loss of service during this renovation.
McKenney’s team worked closely with Atlanta Medical Center to
successfully develop a plan that would minimize downtime, maintain
equipment redundancy, and maximize available boiler capacity
throughout construction of the new boiler plant. All of this being
accomplished while we completely removed and replaced critical
infrastructure in a plant that is over 50 years old.

4. To better execute this plan,
McKenney’s utilized leading
edge laser scanning
technology to develop a
virtual as built model of the
existing planting prior to
beginning construction.
Our team used this model to produce a state of the art BIM model of
the new plant within the crowded infrastructure of the existing
mechanical room. This model allowed the end users to review every
aspect of the new plant before construction ensuring all customer
needs were being met.

5. This also decreased project cost and schedule impacts by allowing
McKenney’s to maximize the use of prefabrication in our in-house
fabrication facilities to the greatest extent possible. We are proud of
the success that this project team has experienced thus far as
construction of the plant is complete, and we are moving into start up.
This approach has been leveraged with a high level of success, and can
be applied to numerous other renovations of various building types to
meet our customer needs.

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