Cape Canaveral Hospital — Isolation Room Exhaust

Project Overview

Cape Canaveral Hospital in Cocoa, Florida required a dedicated exhaust system for an isolation room on the third floor. BEED Engineering provided mechanical and electrical engineering design services for that system.

Isolation-room exhaust is a specialized healthcare HVAC assignment. The room has to hold the pressure relationship the occupancy requires, and the exhaust path has to be dedicated rather than mixed into general return.

The Challenge

A third-floor isolation room in an operating hospital cannot borrow general exhaust and call it isolation. The design had to provide a dedicated exhaust system and the electrical service that system required.

The design had to:

• Provide dedicated exhaust for the third-floor isolation room
• Include the electrical engineering needed to serve that exhaust equipment

BEED Engineering's Scope

BEED provided mechanical and electrical engineering design. Plumbing engineering was not listed as part of this assignment.

Engineering Solutions

The mechanical design provided a dedicated exhaust system for the isolation room. Electrical design served that equipment. The work sits on the same Cape Canaveral Hospital campus as BEED’s Women’s Center MEP replacements, as a separate isolation-exhaust assignment rather than a full-floor renovation.