This new 600,000 SF specialty hospital in the North Indianapolis area is being developed for treatment of women and children in a healing environment. To achieve this, the high rise structure includes the hospital and MOB connected by a five story atrium. Specialized HVAC systems for conditioning, ventilation and fire emergency smoke control is provided.  A two story configuration was selected for the central plant to reduce site impact.

The hospital HVAC systems have air filtration that exceeds code required standards to insure providing a superior air quality environment. This includes HEPA air filters, ceiling mounted for laminar, unidirectional airflow in the surgery suites above the operating area. Air change rates also exceed minimum code requirements in these critical patient treatment areas for improved air quality that results in improved patient healing.

The central utility plant remotely houses all noise and vibration generating equipment.  Indoor cooling tower sumps provide immediate start-up capability year around. On-site fuel oil storage is provided as secondary fuel for the boilers and for the emergency generators.

A customer owner 15 KV electrical distribution system has been designed to distribute electric to the hospital from dual electric utility feeds. Substations in the hospital will distribute power throughout the building. Each substation is double-ended to provide redundant electrical feeds that improve the reliability of the system. An emergency generating plant with parallel generators constructed to provide emergency electrical power to all building critical areas.

The building is provided with state-of-the-art special systems such as intercom, supervised paging, master clock, patient physiological monitoring, voice and data, television, wireless communications, fire alarm with voice evacuation and nurse call with nurse tracking features.