Bell has over 23 years of experience designing HVAC, plumbing, fire suppression, and automatic temperature control systems for hospital, commercial, institutional, laboratory, residential, educational, governmental, industrial, and high-tech industrial buildings and facilities. His experience includes construction of field engineering-mechanical systems; HVAC systems design and operation instruction; O&M mechanical systems engineer and technician; contractor training coordination; 2,600-ton chiller plant operator; 1,050-hp, 350 °F heating water boiler plant operator; and mechanical systems startup engineer. Bell has also authored two HVAC technical manuals published by McGraw-Hill: HVAC Equations, Data, and Rules of Thumb, 2nd Ed. and HVAC Design Portfolio, 865 Flow Diagrams and Details, Airside Systems.
Projects of a certain scope can simply take a while, and such is the case with this medical complex. We check in seven years after the site evaluation but still a year or two away from opening. It’s a good time to ask some questions: How do you plan for equipment that isn’t invented yet? How do you keep adjusting design once construction has started? Explore the obstacles - plus intricacies, such as how the BAS works with emergency power - that make such planning anything but child’s play.