The Fourth Floor and the 117 Unit HVAC Air Handler System: The Backbone of the Internal Air Environment

After the concrete floor was poured on the fourth floor, it was hard to comprehend what the vast expanse, with an additional six-feet of ceiling height, would look like in a few month. At first one could see and walk from one end to the other with no obstructions. As of February 2019, the landscape has completely changed.

HVAC Air Handlers

The heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is essential to for indoor environment comfort. For large structures it takes large HVAC Handlers to evenly distribute the air for comfort and air quality. This is especially true in a hospital environment. The fourth floor of the podium is the dedicated mechanical room for the HVAC Handlers, which will serve both the Children’s and Adult Hospital towers. On January 14, 2019, a new crane was brought in and assembled for the specific purpose of hoisting 117 HVAC Handlers up and over the Children’s Hospital tower and lowering them through a large opening in the podium’s roof where they will be position, by size, weight, and capacity on reinforced pads on the fourth floor. For approximately ten days, the crane will off load 117 of these HVAC Systems and carefully lift them up and over the tower. Depending on the size and capacity of these units, they weigh approximately 7,500 to 12,000 pounds each.

The feature photo depicts a unit being lowered between the two towers, which is a very tedious process as you will see in this post