PT. Epcon Mitra Guna supplied and installed the Isolation Room Automation, and Centralized Monitoring System all using ALC’s WebCTRL Building Automation System (BAS) enterprise solution at the new Tzu Chi Hospital in Jakarta

Tzu Chi Hospital

– A hospital with sustainability in mind

PT. Epcon Mitra Guna was awarded to supply and install the Isolation Room Automation, and Centralized Monitoring System all using ALC’s WebCTRL Building Automation System (BAS) enterprise solution at the new Tzu Chi Hospital in Jakarta.

Photo credit: Tzu Chi Hospital

Overview

Tzu Chi Hospital is a new hospital that was established under auspices of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Medika Indonesia Foundation, which was built based on respecting the soul, prioritizing the life and love. The Tzu Chi Hospital was established because there are still many Indonesian people who seek overseas medical treatment, due the limitation of existing medical facilities in Indonesia. On the other hand, there are still many underprivileged patients who are not able to get optimal health services in the country. For these reasons, Tzu Chi Hospital prioritizes professionalism and humanist culture, as well as international quality services, with warm and familial touch of humanity.

Built on the land area of 2.6 hectares, with a building area of 136,640 square metres, the Tzu Chi Hospital consists of 23 floors with a maximum capacity of 520 beds. The building structure is designed to withstand earthquake of up to 9 SR, with the current development of hospital concept design, with natural lightning, good air circulation and green space, high technology, and patient-oriented services.

The project also needed green building technology. Efficient use of electrical consumption to manage temperature and humidity on each floor with fully automatic maintaining it. High specification requirement asking 12x ACH Air Change on each room of: - ICU (Intensive Care Unit) - ICCU (Intensive Cardiac Care Unit) - HCU (High Care Unit) - SU (Stroke Unit) - PICU (Perinatal Intensive Care Unit) - NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Uni) - BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant Unit) - Isolation Rooms - Additional Isolation - Palliative Care / Terminal Care - Operating Theatre

PT. Epcon Mitra Guna Solutions

Tzu Chi Hospital project is managed by PT. Agung Sedayu Group (ASG), the partner of Yayasan Buddha Tzu Chi. PT ASG appointed PT HPM Consultant, a firm of professional Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, as their ME consultant.

Tzu Chi Hospital consists of three buildings: Hospital Building, Parking Building, and Energy Building. The hospital is located on Pantai Indah Kapuk Boulevard, North Jakarta, Indonesia.

HVAC designed by PT HPM Consultant adopts the state-ofthe-art control systems from the building control industry.

PT. Epcon Mitra Guna was awarded the contracts to supply the Isolation Room Automation, and Centralized Monitoring System. PT. Epcon Mitra Guna was established in June 2000 by the EPCON Group, to provide solutions and expertise in Building Automation System (BAS) and Environment Monitoring System (EMS) for the Indonesian building industry. They worked together with PT. Daya Cipta Anugerah Mandiri (DCAM) as the cabling and equipment installer of the system. The system that PT Epcon deployed in the hospital (Isolation Room) aims to maintain the pressure difference between rooms and also maintain the temperature based on the setpoint, where PID is

the answer to the design needs, where the determination of the pressure and temperature difference is determined from the initial design approval, so that it can maintain efficiency in each room with its standalone system. With a smart system that performs monitoring and control, reports on energy use will be monitored and the controlled devices will work on time so that it will make operational costs more effective.

For the Isolation room, PT Epcon deployed ALC’s standalone DDC controller, combined with Touch screen HMI display unit for dedicated control and monitor. The isolation room control is integrated with the Centralised Monitoring System for sustainable management. For the Centralised Monitoring System, ALC’s WebCTRL is used to manage the entire hospital’s M&E facilities with the aim of energy conservation. The Centralized Monitoring System is integrated with other 3rd party system via high level interface using Bacnet Protocol.

Challenges

PT. Epcon Mitra Guna faced many challenges when implementing the smart system for the hospital. One of the toughest challenges was to ensure that its devices that function as control and monitor devices can work according to design requests where devices (HEPA FAN) that provide room pressure and room temperature (FCU) are not items that they supply.

Client’s Response

The technology system that was installed in the hospital, which aims to maintain the different pressure between rooms and temperature, is running well. This system also helps to monitor, controller and report on energy properly. So that it will make the operational cost more effective.

“With the system installed we can do monitoring, manage the differential pressure, temperature and humidity of the isolation room easily. And also, we can manage and reduce building energy consumption mostly in the critical area which need more energy than the other area,” said Kalam Tukiman ST, MM (FMS - Facility Management Safety Manager), Tzu Chi Hospital.

Construction work is still ongoing since early January 2020 and has entered the testing and commissioning stage at this time.

Dashboard Centralized Monitoring System. Photo credit: PT. Epcon Mitra Guna

Dashboard Centralized Monitoring System. Photo credit: PT. Epcon Mitra Guna

Dashboard Centralized Monitoring System. Photo credit: PT. Epcon Mitra Guna