mshields
Senior Member
- Location
- Boston, MA
In what is now and what will continue, by and large to be, an outpatient clinic, a client wants to put in an Interventional Radiology suite which will need to meet DPH Checklist (something unique to MA but which merely breaks down the FGI (2014) guidelines for any given facility) IP16. Right away, IP stands for Interventional Radiology and it is clear that this room at least requires a Type 1 or possibly 2 EES system.
But only this room needs to meet IP16 AND the facilities generator is a) loaded to the gills and b) too old to be considered reliable.
The, out of the box solution that has been floated is to us a UPS.
I'm not sure I like this idea at all and would be interested on your collective take but the other thing they want to do is to have a single panel off this UPS feed the only loads we are going to have which are:
a) select receptacles
b) A small AHU serving only the room with 2-3HP fans.
This strikes me as an obvious no no. Since the receptacles should be on critical with the fans being on equipment. Since they are neither fractional nor single phase, they cannot go on Critical.
But tell me this, if we use the UPS for our EES, and we separate out panels such that one is for critical and one is for Equipment, can we make that separation after the UPS OR do we need dedicated UPS's?
By the way, they want to handle select lighting with battery packs. The building's generator provides egress lighting in the hallways.
Isn't their an admonition about mixing and matching Generators for one thing and battery for other parts of the EES. I seem to remember running into this.
So what do you think?
But only this room needs to meet IP16 AND the facilities generator is a) loaded to the gills and b) too old to be considered reliable.
The, out of the box solution that has been floated is to us a UPS.
I'm not sure I like this idea at all and would be interested on your collective take but the other thing they want to do is to have a single panel off this UPS feed the only loads we are going to have which are:
a) select receptacles
b) A small AHU serving only the room with 2-3HP fans.
This strikes me as an obvious no no. Since the receptacles should be on critical with the fans being on equipment. Since they are neither fractional nor single phase, they cannot go on Critical.
But tell me this, if we use the UPS for our EES, and we separate out panels such that one is for critical and one is for Equipment, can we make that separation after the UPS OR do we need dedicated UPS's?
By the way, they want to handle select lighting with battery packs. The building's generator provides egress lighting in the hallways.
Isn't their an admonition about mixing and matching Generators for one thing and battery for other parts of the EES. I seem to remember running into this.
So what do you think?