ASHRAE Journal - January 2021 - 92

P RODUCTS & TECHNOLOGY SECTION
Ultrasuite at Lakewood Ranch

rice Industries' revolutionary Ultrasuite is a customizable air distribution and lighting system speciﬁcally
engineered to streamline design and improve performance
in hospital operating rooms. To serve the rapidly growing
population of Lakewood Ranch, FL, Universal Health
Systems (UHS) commissioned a two operating room expansion of its Lakewood Ranch Medical Center featuring the
Ultrasuite in 2018.
The result of a true collaboration, these operating rooms
were designed by a diverse team of architects, engineers,
contractors and building owners that was assembled early
in the project to establish and meet the unique needs of each
party from the start.
Ceiling space is valuable but hard to come by in any operating room project, with lights, diffusers, medical gas and
other equipment booms demanding space above the patient
table. Ultrasuite provides immense space savings through
integration of hospital grade lighting directly within laminar
ﬂow diffusers, making it easier to meet engineering code
requirements and providing a well-lit, elegant solution to
satisfy architectural requirements. Thanks to the space savings
of the Ultrasuite in this project, a ring
of Indigo-Clean® lighting could be
installed around the perimeter of the
operating room to sterilize the space
and satisfy the owner's request.
Easy installation was another
driving factor in the selection of the
Ultrasuite. Traditional equipment

Project: Lakewood Ranch Medical Center
Location: Lakewood Ranch, FL
Architect: Stephen Boruff,
AIA Architects + Planners, Inc.
Engineer: Johnson, Levinson, Ragan, Davila, Inc.
Contractor: United Mechanical, Inc.
Price Representative: Tom Barrow Company

installation in modern operating rooms requires multiple
specialized trades, all of which need to be scheduled and
staggered to ensure sufﬁcient time and space for all personnel to complete their tasks. In combination with the factoryassembled, modular design, the Ultrasuite's hanger-wire
suspension system reduces installation time and personnel
required, such that the Ultrasuite is much faster and more

" The cost was right. The product was right. And
the people at Price are fabulous to work with. "
- Jim Barber, Sales Representative, Tom Barrow Co.
efﬁcient to install than traditional operating room ceiling and diffuser systems.
Both Ultrasuite systems were fully
installed at Lakewood Ranch Medical
Center within one working week.
The Ultrasuite features a modular,
completely customizable design to accommodate a variety of customer needs.
The engineering team at Price worked
with the mechanical design engineers
at Johnson, Levinson, Ragan, Davila,
Inc. to determine the facility's equipment, structural, electrical and spatial
requirements and develop detailed
submittals and installation drawings of
the Ultrasuite speciﬁc to this project.
With a one to two day turn around on all
requests, the project was kept on schedule and remained fresh in the minds of
all stakeholders. This standard service
is available and recommended on all
Ultrasuite projects.
Commissioned in early 2019, the Price
Ultrasuite is running and performing well
for the medical center and its patients.
" I would recommend any of our
hospital clients that are doing this
type of work, operating rooms or
other spaces that require laminars,
look at an integrated system. "
- Sam Moreland, Director of Engineering,
United Mechanical, Inc.

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