Van Boerum and Frank designed the Central plant for the new 750,000 sf McKay-Dee hospital. The heating side of the central plant contained three high pressure boilers, deaerators, surge tanks, and a blow down heat recovery system. The boiler feed water was pretreated with water softeners and de-alkalizers. The chilled water side of the central plant consisted of four centrifugal chillers, stainless steel cross flow cooling towers, concrete sump, horizontal split case condenser water pumps and a primary and secondary chilled water pumping system. The central plant also housed the emergency generators with a backup fuel oil system and the hospital maintenance shops with a paint booth, wood shop and welding shop.