Mary Immaculate Hospital Design and Construction Management

Client/Owner: Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens

Project location: Queens, New York

Construction cost: $3 million

The Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens contracted DMJM Harris to provide design and construction management services. To make the heating season, the project was into three contracts: Boiler Pre-Purchase and Fabrication, Demolition of a single boiler, and a Boiler Plant Piping and Hookup.

 

The facility’s staff was uncertain of the steam loads and the amount of high-pressure steam required so DMJM Harris’s Energy Services Group performed an analysis of the latest three years of fuel bills and weather data to determine all steam loads.

 

Following the energy analysis, the construction management team performed a constructability review, where it was discovered that there was no economically reasonable way to bring in packaged boilers. DMJM Harris decided to install four job-erected prefabricated and tested high-pressure steam boilers with burners capable of firing on No. 2 fuel oil or natural gas. Because DMJM Harris properly allocated space, the hospital was able to increase savings.