Cape Fear Valley Health Pavilion Vertical Expansion
HEAPY is partnering with Cape Fear Valley Health by providing building commissioning services for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems for the vertical expansion at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, located in Fayetteville, NC. The 93,000 SF Valley Pavilion Vertical expansion is being built atop the emergency department area of Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and will bring 100 new patient beds to the local community. As the building was designed during the COVID-19 pandemic, local lessons learned for patient isolation rooms were considered as the construction documents were completed by revising the plans to include that approximately 40% of the patient rooms will be operating or quickly enabled for isolation control.
HEAPY supported the design and construction teams, starting in design, by performing commissioning and operational-based design reviews. Working with the design engineer, clarifications of sequence of operations were provided to ensure system design, bidding, and setup were matching the expectations of the owner and the needs for state regulatory requirements. Additionally, stairwell pressurization delivery types, methods, and controls were discussed and improved upon during the design-assist process with the construction manager.
The existing five-story emergency department has existing mechanical equipment located on the roof, which will become an interstitial mechanical floor with a new air-handling unit to service the floor above. To reduce onsite construction time, the construction manager has implemented prefabrication of all major hallway system utility racks and restroom pods. Coordinating with the construction manager and mechanical contractor, HEAPY will verify duct pressure and pipe testing for sections of each utility rack and again once all final connections are made to ensure no system leakage exists prior to ceiling grid completion.
The scope of work includes the addition of a 2MW diesel generator for emergency power systems for the entire campus. The new 2MW generator will be the 5th generator in the central energy plant, and once installed, it will assist in providing up to 10 MW of emergency back-up power to the site. HEAPY will work with the facility team and contractors to verify the new equipment operation and revisions to the existing system to ensure ATS transfers and paralleling gear sequencing. With respect to the new patient floors, the team will verify emergency power delivery to the specified systems upon power transfer.
