The Health System Chilled Water Precinct includes two plants, a north and south, to provide chilled water and cooling to educational, research, clinical facilities, and the hospital. This project installed the last chiller in an open bay in the South Chiller Plant and emergency power generators for cooling the critical patient care areas of the hospital. The chiller installation consists of a chiller, cooling tower, pumps, piping, and the systems to control these. The chiller provides N+2 capacity for the Health System, to assure that even if two chillers were out of service, there is capacity to cool all space within the system.

During a power outage at the health system, life safety needs are provided by emergency generators for each of the facilities. There is also a need to provide for critical patient care areas within the hospital during such an event.

Two 2,500 kW generators and the controlling switchgear have been installed in a new generator farm located between the Lee and 11th street garages. Systems were operational in June 2011.