The Western Maryland Health System is constructing a new seven floor, 585,000 GSF hospital on Willow Brook Road in Cumberland, Maryland that will replace two existing hospitals- Memorial Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital. The hospital will feature three floors of diagnosis and treatment areas and a patient tower with 275 beds. The full service hospital contains 16 total operating rooms consisting of 7 cardiac, 6 out-patient, and 3 specialized procedure rooms.

Electrical system design includes normal and emergency power, lighting, fire alarm, lightning protection, and grounding systems.  The electrical distribution system is supported by two fully redundant 12.47 kV, 8 MVA capacity utility service feeders.  The main service switchgear and each of the three building substations are configured in a main-tie-main arrangement designed with N+1 redundancy.

The emergency distribution system is supported by two 1,800 kW, 12.47 kV standby emergency generators that are configured to operate in parallel.  When not required for emergency operation each generator is capable of operating in parallel with each of the two incoming utility feeders to provide peak shaving during peak electric consumption periods.

Under a separate contract, Ross Infrastructure provided the design for the new Central Utility Plant to support the hospital facilities. The Central Utility Plant will provide 72,000 pounds per hour of dual-fuel (natural gas / No. 2 oil) steam capacity, 3,000 tons of chilled water capacity, and 3.6 megawatts of emergency power with peak shaving capability.