ANTRIM AREA HOSPITAL - HV INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE (RE-ISSUE)

Description

Antrim Area Hospital has undergone extensive construction and refurbishment work over the past 20 years. It is the intention to provide a fully maintainable critical infrastructure without resulting service disruption. The works involve the demolition of the current HV building and building of a new and improved HV building which will: • Retain the existing HV ring, HV RMUs, LV switchboard and the LV generators within the buildings which they serve, apart from the LV generators serving the HV sitewide ring and the main hospital as these will be replaced. • Transfer of circuitry from existing LV Switchboard to new LV switchboard • New HV intake formed to accommodate the increased demand • New HV switchboard – complete with fully withdrawable Vacuum Circuit Breakers • New LV/HV Step Up Transformers • New HV/LV Step Down Transformers • New LV switchboard inclusive of 20 percent spare capacity • Provision of interlink facility to interface supply with a future battery storage arrangement. • New 3 x 2.5MVA LV generators – each set to provide acoustic attenuation and fire protection and associated incorporated day tank storage. • New N + 1 controls system • Remote HV switching