Case Study Location: Mequon, WI Industry: Healthcare Scope: BIM, HVAC, Temperature Controls, Service Contract Amount: $4.1 MN Columbia St Marys Ozaukee Expansion When Columbia St Mary’s expanded their Ozaukee hospital with two additional patient wings, the local building codes required all structures to have a peaked roof. This gabled roof provided a design challenge for installing all the HVAC components as well as the mechanical room. Using Building Information Modeling (BIM), Grunau mapped the exact order of how all the duct work and piping should be installed. Working with the sloped roof, pieces of the HVAC and temperature control systems were installed in an unusual order, placing the pieces that lay in the peak first, then building down from there. In the end, the labyr

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