Baptist Memorial Health Care wanted to install an in-building wireless distribution system which provides complete, reliable wireless coverage throughout facilities, enabling the use of wireless medical devices that enhance the patient experience and patient care.

To increase production and meet growing demand, Newpark Mats & Integrated Services (NMIS) needed a faster and more consistent source of chilled water. Without the internal resources to design or install a chilled water system to support a custom process, NMIS turned to Johnson Controls under tight schedule for a turnkey solution.

The existing chiller had proved unreliable over the previous 3 years of operation with frequent refrigerant leaks resulting in ineffective air-conditioning for the building.

The building was equipped with four end-of-life Trane water cooled chillers, located in the basement. Johnson Controls installed four York water cooled centrifugal chillers with unit mounted variable speed drives and a total installed cooling capacity of 6,8 MW. Each chiller has a capacity of 1,6 MW (variable to 1.9MW depending upon condenser water temperatures). Johnson Controls needed to design the equipment in such way that it would fit the dimensional constraints of the existing plant area and plant access route but also the specific performance requirements of the client. Morgan Stanley required the chiller plant to match the building load profile, turn down to match the low load requirement when needed and provide an improvement in the Energy Efficiency Ratio across the entire operating range. Other requirements were a reduction in the chiller noise level to improve the working environment in the plant room and a wide operating envelope coupled with intelligent controls to allow possible variation in both flow rate and temperature. The latter was needed to leverage increased capacity from a reduced number of machines during the different installation phases and allow future enhancement to a variable primary flow system.