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Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hale Building for Transformative Medicine: Picking Up No Vibrations

Jason Seaburg

May 19, 2021

A modern glass office building with green accents stands on a city street corner, connected by a glass skywalk to another building. Cars and pedestrians are visible nearby.

How Suffolk located a gas-fired cogeneration plant under Brigham and Women’s imaging suite

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of the top healthcare institutions in the world, needed to locate a 4MW gas reciprocating engine cogeneration plant in its new Hale Building for Transformative Medicine. The only possible spot? Right under the imaging suites. MRIs are highly sensitive to vibration, and gas-fired engines are notorious for producing motion and sound that lead to the vibration the hospital wanted to avoid.

 

Click here to access a white paper outlining how exactly we solved this challenge!