Banner Health’s 672,000-sq-ft hospital in Tucson is the first in Arizona to implement chilled beams for patient rooms, but it’s the tower’s mini-central plant taking up the fourth floor that makes the facility one of a kind.
“The fourth floor is everything,” says Charlie McGowan, mechanical engineer at AEI | Affiliated Engineers. “The idea is to centralize utilities and the bulk of maintenance work, to park staff there and they don’t need to be in patient spaces.”