“As a world premier hospital and teaching facility, Johns Hopkins prides itself on excellence, discovery, leadership, and integrity. Losing a major utility system doesn’t fit
into that equation.”
Dave
AEI Project Engineer
South Power Plant - Phases I & II
N+1 redundancy. AEI designed the new Johns Hopkins Hospital power plant for ultimate reliability and redundancy, providing 21,000 tons of chilled water, 10 MW of emergency power, and supplying critical medical gasses to multiple hospital buildings. The plant is integrated into a new 2,000-space parking deck and central loading dock facility. The new utility plant increases overall reliability and efficiency of the existing systems to N+1 standards and is scaled to provide the critical utilities for a major expansion of hospital facilities.
Innovations in the design and operation of the South Power Plant include variable flow pumping in the chilled water systems, counterflow cooling towers, a new power generation system designed for peak shaving during high electric demand periods, and duplex chillers allowing single-compressor use during times of lower cooling demand. The limited tunnel footprint is optimized, stacking the prep kitchen-to-hospital food transfer over the utility distribution.
Services: Utility Infrastructure, Cost Estimating
Size: 21,000 tons; 10MW emergency power
Location: Baltimore, MD
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