St Vincent’s Hospital Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

The St Vincent’s Research Precinct is a renowned health and medical research precinct, with strong strategic partnerships, and a focus on translating research into improved health and clinical outcomes. The St Vincent’s Research, the Victor Chang Institute, and the Garvan Institute is a new facility with complex services integration for the state-of-the-art medical research facilities.

The project consisted of several floors of research laboratories entailing; Cryogenic Room, Mouse Breeding and Research, Zebra Fish Laboratories, Zenapus Frog Laboratories, Large Animal Research Laboratories, Cardiac Research together with body protected areas, PC1 PC2 PC3 rooms, Biotechnology Research Rooms, and general offices. Barnwell Cambridge was engaged to deliver a wide range of electrical services that included their integration into the existing site wide campus for communications and power services.

The services provided included,
⦁ Chamber Sub Station
⦁ Multiple Standby Generators Synchronised
⦁ UPS system
⦁ Main Switchboard and Distribution Boards
⦁ Power Factor Correction
⦁ Consumer Mains and Sub mains
⦁ Medical, Technical and Specialised Earthing System
⦁ General Power and lighting
⦁ Feature Lighting
⦁ Power filter systems.
⦁ Soft Wired System to Workstations
⦁ Emergency escape lighting and exit signage
⦁ Lighting Control System
⦁ Backbone Fibre Infrastructure on Campus and Building
⦁ Structured Cabling
⦁ WI-FI Services
⦁ Intrusion Detection System and Access Control System
⦁ CCTV System cabling
⦁ AV Services
⦁ Scada System
⦁ Digital Power Metering System
⦁ Lightning Protection
⦁ Infrared Thermal Scanning
⦁ Testing and Commissioning