An interesting success story, carried out in a multinational medical device company in the Dominican Republic, had the participation of SAEG to restore the building in different aspects.
By ACR Latin America
Projects in spaces related to medicine always have an additional challenge, since the demands and knowledge must be greater to deliver desired facilities and with the operation and results desired by customers. For that reason, we highlight this success story that has to do with the health sector.
Located in the free zone of San Isidro, in the Dominican Republic, a manufacturer of products related to medical equipment, also known as "medical devices"; it needed to restore or rehabilitate the building with which they sought to create new facilities to expand their operations.
The contractor SAEG advised this company (whose name was not disclosed, due to confidentiality) for the restoration that consisted of the civil, electrical and electromechanical reconstruction of said building.
Eng. Edmond Desueza, General Manager of SAEG in the Dominican Republic, explained how the selection and installation of air conditioning equipment for this project was. "Since the client's operation merits controlled spaces, the air conditioning system was designed in the United States and reviewed in DR by SAEG, at the request of the customer. The installed system is based on ice water with high efficiency filters, specialized handlers, temperature and humidity control of the spaces."
As explained by Eng. Desueza, two 350-ton Chillers Carrier were installed there, in the ice water part, with BAC - Baltimore Air Coil cooling towers, Taco water recirculation pumps and handlers, which were provided by the customer of a manufacturer in Puerto Rico.
Likewise, the fire protection system includes the installation of two ITT Bornemann pumps, diesel. And in addition, SAEG installed a 1.5-megawatt Caterpillar generator, Ingersoll Rand compressors, water treatment plant system, vacuum system, and boiler.
Because the building to be rebuilt was abandoned in the Free Trade Zone of San Isidro, SAEG specialists had to do anti-seismic reinforcement at the level of civil works, due to the structural deterioration of the building.
For this particular project, the client provided the design of the systems and equipment that would be placed in the building, so no comparisons were made with other models. SAEG conformed to the specifications of the design supplied by the customer.
The integration was another of the important aspects taken into account in this project, as explained by the general manager of SAEG in R. Dominicana, "this client, having several operational buildings in the place, technologically integrated their operations, centralizing them at the level of monitoring of the operational part, as well as at the level of networks, database and so on."
Challenges overcome
As in most projects, mishaps appear at any time, for which you must be prepared. In the case of SAEG, they also had to act promptly before the appearance of some inconveniences that were solved and that did not generate problems in the work.
"Given the short time available for the implementation of the project, there were no major difficulties; the mishaps due to delays (not exceeding 5 days) related to supplies (Logistics) caused us some pressure in the execution of the project due to the fear of delay. These mishaps were not significant, being able to deliver the phases of the project in the agreed time," said Eng. Desueza, who added that the greatest technical difficulty they had "was with the civil works, given that the building had to be reinforced seismically; the government permits did not come out in the scheduled time, delaying the activities related to the construction process of the civil works".
From this experience, the manager stressed that "from this we extract lessons learned: deliver to the client by spaces or area".
Customer reaction
Because it is a special case, in which confidentiality was requested, and there were other types of requirements, Eng. Edmond Desueza concluded about the satisfaction of the end user in the face of this technology that "the client is extremely satisfied, given that in order to carry out the operations, objective of the project, we had to comply with a validation protocol of the areas / phases delivered; this validation was carried out satisfactorily, complying with the protocol of levels of particulate matter and bacteria allowed in a controlled environment".
Overview
- Installation signature:
SAEG Engineering Group Dominican Republic
- Manufacturers involved:
Eaton (Electrical Panels)
Nora (Flats)
Price (Grids and diffusers)
Carrier (Chillers)
Baltimore Air Coil (Pumps)
Ingersoll Rand (Compressors)
2 BAC cooling towers capacity of 1050 GPM
4 Bell & Gossett pumps
