Lyell McEwin Hospital (Australia)
Building IT Management - 2006
I. CUSTOMER ENVIRONMENT / PROJECT CONTEXT
Customer profile:
- The Lyell McEwin Hospital in Adelaide, Australia, is an important cornerstone of Australia’s national health service
- It has been continually enlarged and expanded since opening in 1959
- In 2006, the hospital was undergoing the final phase of a major $85 million redevelopment project to create new departments including an intensive care unit, birthing suite and medical imaging facilities
Customer objective and constraints:
An advanced Building IT management system was needed that could integrate a wide range of complex monitoring subsystems and critical services such as:
- Fire and mechanical control
- Access control and security intruder detection
- Wandering patient alarm system
- Intercoms and CCTV
- High level interfacing for chillers, diesel generators, power meters, fire panel and specimen handling system
II. SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION
Implementation methodology (main phases):
- TAC provided the technical expertise to reduce construction and building management costs
- To reduce high cabling costs for multiple networks, TAC proposed a single integrated cable backbone
Solution overview (services, products, systems, architectures...):
- TAC’s Building IT solution is an industry first in Australia – and quite possibly the world
- It offers total integration with voice, data, video and control systems all residing on a common structured cabling system
- The cable backbone offers higher bandwidth to guarantee stable and secure transmission of data
III. RESULTS / ACHIEVEMENT
Customer benefits:
- Better security in a comfortable environment
- Hospital staff have 24/7 access to building and critical systems information
- Lower construction and building management costs
- Reduced operating costs
- Five-year ROI with systems maintenance management
