Modernized electrical installations of four electrical installations

The com­pa­ny for mul­ti­tech­ni­cal ser­vices in the fields of ener­gy and com­mu­ni­ca­tions SPIE was com­mis­sioned by the Char­ité — Uni­ver­sitätsmedi­zin Berlin hos­pi­tal to refur­bish and mod­ern­ize elec­tri­cal instal­la­tions of four care areas at the Ben­jamin Franklin cam­pus dur­ing ongo­ing hos­pi­tal oper­a­tions. The mul­ti-tech­nol­o­gy ser­vice provider is thus ensur­ing greater com­fort, safe­ty and ener­gy effi­cien­cy in the nurs­ing wards. The project start­ed in sum­mer 2021 and is expect­ed to be com­plet­ed in mid-2022.

Refur­bish­ment dur­ing ongo­ing operation

A team from SPIE Ger­many & Cen­tral Europe from the CityNet­works & Grids busi­ness unit is mod­ern­iz­ing the gen­er­al and safe­ty light­ing sys­tem as well as the fire pro­tec­tion sys­tem of the care areas with a total of around 180 beds. The SPIE experts led by project man­ag­er Rudolf Kollmer are sup­ply­ing and installing a high-volt­age sys­tem, the low-volt­age main dis­tri­b­u­tion board and 16 sub­dis­tri­b­u­tion boards as well as around 70 kilo­me­ters of cables and lines, includ­ing cable sup­port sys­tems. In addi­tion, there are around 300 meters of para­pet trunk­ing, instal­la­tion equip­ment such as switch­es, sock­ets and junc­tion box­es and around 1,300 ener­gy-sav­ing LED lumi­naires as well as pres­ence detec­tors that pro­vide auto­mat­ed light­ing as long as it is need­ed, plus cable bulk­heads in fire pro­tec­tion walls and fire pro­tec­tion ducts.

“A par­tic­u­lar chal­lenge is not to dis­rupt ongo­ing hos­pi­tal oper­a­tions dur­ing the refur­bish­ment. We can only car­ry out noisy work at cer­tain times. We are there­fore coor­di­nat­ing close­ly with the hos­pi­tal dur­ing the course of the project. The mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy will con­tribute to greater com­fort and safe­ty for patients and nurs­ing staff and at the same time opti­mize the ener­gy effi­cien­cy of the nurs­ing wards. The mod­ern­ized light­ing sys­tem alone will save the hos­pi­tal around 20 per­cent ener­gy in the future.”

 — Rudolf Kollmer

As the project pro­gress­es, SPIE will also take over main­te­nance of the build­ing ser­vices equipment.

Longstanding cooperation based on trust

The ser­vice provider has been work­ing togeth­er with Char­ité — Uni­ver­sitätsmedi­zin Berlin for around 20 years in a spir­it of trust and part­ner­ship “We are delight­ed to be imple­ment­ing this project. The cus­tomer appre­ci­ates our many years of expe­ri­ence and solu­tion exper­tise in exten­sive projects, which we often imple­ment dur­ing ongo­ing oper­a­tions,” says Matthias Richter, Head of Ener­gy Plant Con­struc­tion in the CityNet­works & Grids busi­ness unit.