Project Summary

Expansion & Updates

The Robert E. & Holly D. Miller Building

Vermont Mechanical has been working on a 180,000 square foot, seven-story, inpatient bed building to create 128 single-occupancy patient rooms. Patients will be allowed to move out of shared rooms, some nearing 70 years old now, and be put into private rooms with modern amenities. Connecting the new bed tower to the main building are three connectors. One of the connectors is a 230' long, two-story sky bridge leading straight from surgery to the patients' rooms. The new building features five massive air-handling units, one weighing in at nearly 50,000 lbs. and moving 70,000 CFM of air. There are also over 200 VAV boxes, 215 chilled beams, and 144 toilets. Vermont Mechanical has also been a part of the supporting work at the Central Utility Plant.

Mother-Baby Unit

This project included the demolition of 14,400 square feet of existing patient rooms and a portion of the 7th floor of the Baird Building, resulting in a complete removal of all existing interior space down to the structure. The result was 25 new modern patient rooms designed to serve as post-partum recovery rooms for mothers and babies. Vermont Mechanical installed medical gas, plumbing and fan-coil unit zone systems for the individual heating and cooling of each room, as well as infrastructure upgrades for make-up air, heating hot water and chilled-water systems.

Cath Lab Renovations, McClure Building, Level One

Vermont Mechanical worked collaboratively with the design team to evaluate various means and methods of serving the infrastructure needs of the two upgraded Cath lab exam rooms. The hospital needed to dramatically improve upon the air-flow in this section of the hospital in order to meet requirements for Cath labs. The end result was an installation of a new supply and return duct system from the existing central air handling plant, which stretches across the entire McClure Wing. This wing now serves the Cath labs and provides capacity for future renovations and improvements.

Baird IAQ

Vermont Mechanical conducted a major infrastructure upgrade to a completely land-locked wing of the medical center. Our efforts included a complete replacement of the rooftop ventilation equipment, including custom air-handling and energy-recovery equipment, controls, and all related duct and piping infrastructure, while maintaining building ventilation for the occupied floors of the facility. As is often the case on primarily mechanical projects such as this one, Vermont Mechanical was also the General Contractor responsible for the coordination and scheduling of the subcontractors.