Children's Wisconsin Campus: Various Projects

Farnsworth Group is providing retro-commissioning, facility assessment, and master planning services for multiple projects at Children's Wisconsin. A few projects are highlighted below:

Master planning and retro-commissioning

Farnsworth Group is providing ongoing energy master planning and retro-commissioning services for Children's Wisconsin, a medical campus with multiple buildings totaling more than 1.8M SF of space. The process began with energy baselining and benchmarking, which involves evaluating the hospital's energy consumption and comparing it to industry standards. Following this, Farnsworth Group reviewed equipment functional and performance trends to identify areas for improvement and provided recommendations

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit commissioning

Farnsworth Group recently completed a controls shop drawing review and resolved an issue involving command signal priorities between the fire alarm control panel and the BAS panel.

Facility condition assessment

Farnsworth Group will manage the entire Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) process and present information to the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW). The goal is to provide program planning, a facility condition assessment, budget modeling, reporting, and prioritization.

The FCA will define, establish, and implement a methodology and platform to address the life cycle, the client's known conditions, and the facilities and systems' visually observed conditions.

A financial capital outlay plan will be developed that includes a mechanism for prioritizing and tracking future requirements and an annual budget management process. This plan will include summary tables of the Facility Condition Index (FCI), year of construction, gross facility square feet, and the opinion of cost to correct the facility's deficiencies.

A summary table of the systems assessed with a System Condition Index (SCI), system replacement cost, and the opinion of probable costs to correct the deficiencies for each system will be provided. System groups will be defined during the Owners Project Requirement (OPR) development, for example, HVAC, plumbing, exterior, etc.

A facility renewal forecast will then identify the facility's needs for the next 20 years to assist in understanding where the facility lies in its life cycle. A funding graph will determine the impact of different funding levels on the FCI. This information will be used to develop the initial parameters of the budget model.

Farnsworth Group will also include a chart of the proposed 5-year capital budget based on the ranking strategy. A 5-year list of the ranked requirements will be included in the final report's appendices.