Located on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Wilcox Medical Center was in desperate need of replacing its outdated, 30-year-old backup generators. Layton Construction was tasked with replacing the aging generators, while working around an open, fully operational medical center. The generator system replacement included adding a second floor to the existing central utility plant to house three 1,000-KW emergency generators and associated electrical and mechanical equipment.
The facility is a Level II trauma center and the largest medical center on Kauai, so an up-to-date emergency generator system was vital and the project team knew they could not risk shutting down the central utility plant and potentially impacting patient care.