ASHRAE’s Illinois Chapter has recognized GBA’s engineering design of the new Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) at Endeavor Health’s Glenbrook Hospital with its 2024 Excellence in Engineering Award. The project will go on to compete in the ASHRAE Region VI awards program this spring.
The $170 million addition to the Glenview, IL, hospital, which opened earlier this year, comprises a 165,000-square-foot surgery center designed to accommodate three additional patient floors in the future. Although this building is adjacent to the existing hospital, it utilizes a dedicated central plant and air-handling systems. The design reflects the client’s priorities for energy efficiency, safety, redundancy, resiliency, and staff and patient comfort.
The HVAC needs of the CVI are met by five air-handling units, plus a dedicated energy recovery ventilator unit that serves two of the five AHUs. The building’s cooling needs are served by two 500-ton centrifugal chillers, plus two water-cooled dehumidification sub-cooling chillers for seasonal HVAC cooling loads. In addition to the main centrifugal chiller systems and sub-cooling chillers, the design provided heat recovery chillers for the year-round process loads (including imaging equipment in the cath labs, EP labs, and hybrid ORs). These paired nicely with the condensing boiler plant used for space heating. A dedicated steam generator handles the building’s humidification loads.
Key design features included an energy recovery ventilator with integral enthalpy plate heat exchanger; heat recovery chillers; a low-temperature hydronic water system; surgery air-handling units that use reject heat from the chillers’ condenser water system; and pandemic response features. Review our case study for more design information.
GBA designed mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, and medical gas systems, with electrical engineering by Dickerson Engineering Inc. Key team members included Jim Shults (Principal-in-Charge); Todd Soukup (Project Manager); Tony Zappia, Jeffrey Cochran, Kevin Vander Klay, Robert O’Neill, William Wylie, Alex Schultz, Jeff Dacey, and Russ Williams.
GBA congratulates Endeavor Health, Glenbrook Hospital, owners’ rep Integrated Facilities Solutions, and its team members for these innovative design efforts, combining energy efficiency and long-term sustainability.
Photo: Darris Lee Harris Photography
