Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth – Chiller Replacement

Fort Worth, TX

At Certus, we have a passion for highly technical MEP infrastructure projects that allow aging facilities to stay in tune with the latest technologies and energy efficiency strategies. Our partnership and long-standing relationship with Texas Health afforded us the opportunity to demonstrate our creativity and ingenuity to expand and upgrade one of their major campus cooling plants.  Driven by the need for redundancy, reliability, and expansion capability, Certus was engaged to design the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth Chiller Replacement Project. Project scope included replacement of two existing chillers while maintaining service to the fully operational Hospital. The original 7,300-ton plant was expanded to 7,900-tons and maximized the chiller and infrastructure plant capacity to ultimately expand to 11,000-tons within the existing real estate. Additionally, the chiller plant capacity and efficiency were optimized while improving flow and temperature deficiencies of the existing systems. Working closely with our design assist partners, Dynamic Systems Inc. (DSI) and Cummings Electrical, Certus was able to deliver the project in a significantly shorter time frame by incorporating fabrication, detailing, and procurement of equipment in parallel with the design phase. This process reduced the anticipated construction schedule by six months and allowed the full plant capacity to be operational before the upcoming summer of 2020.