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Substation maintenance at Fundación Cardio Infantil

Maintenance of 225 and 300 kVA electrical substations at a leading cardiovascular institution, where continuity of the critical systems admits no interruption.

Healthcare · Fundación Cardio Infantil

What was needed

A cardiovascular institution has life-support and imaging equipment that tolerates neither outages nor fluctuations. Maintenance of its substations had to be planned so that no critical circuit was left without backup during the work.

Substations serviced
2
Capacities
300 kVA and 225 kVA
Total capacity
525 kVA
Constraint
Critical systems kept running
Scope

What we did

  • Maintenance of an electrical substation of 300 kVA.
  • Maintenance of an electrical substation of 225 kVA.
  • Work scheduled to guarantee continuity of the critical systems.
Technical background

What it means to work where there is life support

A cardiovascular institution concentrates equipment that tolerates no interruption: continuous monitoring, haemodynamics, life support. What differs from other facilities is not the maintenance technique but the margin for error, which is zero.

That means investing time in something done quickly in other sectors: verifying that the transfer switches work before touching anything, confirming which circuit feeds each area, and agreeing with the biomedical team what can be worked on and in which window. The electrical work itself is usually the shortest part.

FAQ

Answers to common questions

How is continuity guaranteed during the maintenance?
By checking and testing the backup systems before starting, and taking one unit at a time with the rest in service. Nothing is de-energised until its backup is confirmed.
What is the difference between maintaining a 225 and a 300 kVA substation?
The protocol is the same; what changes is the duration, the reference values in the measurements and the areas depending on each one, which is what sets the order of work.
Is maintenance documentation provided?
Yes. The measurements and the record of the work are documented, which is what later supports the institution in licensing audits and with its insurer.
Result

The outcome

Both substations were left fully up to date on maintenance without affecting the continuity of the institution's critical systems.

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