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Columbia St. Mary's - Ozaukee Campus
Columbia St Mary's Hospital in Mequon, WI was a $5.2 million health care project. Work consisted of a five story patient tower addition, a 1.5 story loading dock addition and Central Utility Plant addition. The patient tower added twenty labor and delivery suites, three C-Section procedure rooms, sixteen Acute Care rooms and forty eight Patient Care rooms. Each patient room is equipped with low voltage lighting control systems, giving the patient more control over lighting than a typical "hard wired" patient room. A loading dock upgrade added two docks, additional storage space and offices for medical equipment technicians. The Central Utility Plant addition included a new 1250 kW generator and Square D 24.9 kV 10 bay primary gear line up. This new switchgear serves not only the new addition, but a changeover was made during construction to refeed the existing hospital's old service.

Sandburg Hall, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
In 2001, Magaw provided electrical service for a newly constructed tower, while the existing 3 towers involved remodeling and updating. The $3.2 million project consisted of fire alarm replacement and complete voice/data/ cable television wiring upgrades during remodels to commons areas for all four buildings. Scheduling changes turned this into a fast-track project during construction.

US Cellular Call Center, Pewaukee, WI
The call center is an 80,000 square foot facility. Magaw crews worked for eight months installing feeder electrical and all distribution service in 2001. Magaw also installed fire alarms, lighting and controls and wired the supplied securty system. The building is equipped with a 300 KVA UPS system and a 1500 KVA generator, both of which were installed by Magaw. This $2.6 million electrical project was completed in eight months. Communication cabling was performed by Magaw's structured cabling division.

Oak Creek High School
This was a fast-track project in the summer of 2002 with a finish date for the impending school year. As a new construction and remodel, this project included complete electrical service, fire alarm systems and voice/data/ intercom for the entire facility. An integrated centralized lighting control system was installed. This project also included four 24 KV substations and a generator.

The Wisconsin Heart Hospital
This Plan/Spec project is a new construction, state-of-art medical facility. As a fast-track project, it included 6 Cath Labs and 2 Operating Rooms. Unique to this project were two generators, installed in parallel. Completion dates altered to account for the project finishing ahead of schedule. Magaw provided design assistance on this project.

Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility
This 1,045 bed facility is a high rise detention center located in downtown Milwaukee and houses more than 4,000 parole and probation offenders every year. Completed in 2002, the facility includes a 50 bed segregation unit and a 200 bed AODA (alcohol and other drug abuse) unit. 1,000 doors, 685 intercoms, 150 high resolution cameras and 51 internet visitation stations were wired by Magaw Electric. There are very few high rise detention centers of this type in the United States. Magaw Electric was responsible for all the electrical, fire alarm, voice/data and security work at the facility. A 750 kw generator and a small UPS system provides emergency power in the event of and outage. Magaw provided desgin assistance on this project.

Lapham Hall, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Magaw performed the electrical work for the remodel of Lapham Hall, a science building on the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee campus. The five floor remodel required new panels, feeders and a generator for emergency power. Magaw also wired all the electrical systems, fire alarm, and voice data. As this was a science building with many wet locations, ground fault breakers were used in many locations.

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Miller Brewery Lighting Retrofit
Magaw Electric was contracted by Orion Energy Systems to do a 2,000+ fixture lighting retrofit at the Miller Brewery in Milwaukee. This work was done in two phases. Two, four and six bank T8 fluorescent fixtures replaced outdated 400 watt HID and T12 fluorescent lights. The main reason for the retrofit was to facilitate waste reduction and improve energy efficiency. Fixtures with six 32 watt fluorescent lamps replaced hundreds of 400 watt HID fixtures and provided better lighting (see the before and after photos). Occupancy sensors were installed on about three hundred of the fixtures to reduce lighting run time. These sensors were installed in areas that only need lighting a few hours a day (as typical in warehouse applications). As many as eight to ten electricians completed the project with no shut downs or interruptions to Miller's production line. Boom lifts, scissor lifts and ladders, sometimes with pulleys, were used to put the installers and equipment in the optimum position. Many of the lamp locations were in hard to reach places.

The project was facilitated by the coordinated delivery, labeling and organizing of the fixtures by Orion Lighting. Replacement fixture boxes were clearly labeled, saving time and labor. This first phase of lighting retrofit required six to eight weeks to complete. All of the parts (lamps, ballasts, steel housings) of the removed HID and T12 fixtures were recycled or disposed of properly.

The energy savings from the more efficient fixtures, combined with a Focus on Energy incentive will lead to a return on investment for the project of about two years. After the payback period all of the waste reduction (savings) turns into profits.