The Client

The Sussex Community NHS Trust is the main provider of community health services throughout West Sussex. One of their key facilities is Brighton General Hospital, a large part of which is housed in the Grade II-listed Arundel Building.

The Requirement

The Trust needed a means of supplementing the power infrastructure of the Arundel Building, in order to guarantee a constant and steady supply of electricity at all times in order to keep critical, life-saving medical equipment operational, even during an outage in grid power. Additionally they needed to be able to keep the hardware and software essential for the hospital's services operational at all times. What was needed therefore, was a solution capable of not only offering extensive battery runtime, but also one that could provide continuous power to their vital equipment.

Our Solution

Our solution was to supply an Eaton 9355 20kVA UPS which provides premium backup power with its online double conversion topology, and delivers industry-leading power density.

However, despite the 9355's comparably extensive runtime, it can only be expected to last for 13 minutes when supporting a full load, which by itself would be insufficient for their needs.

However one of the reasons for choosing the Eaton 9355 was because of its enhanced compatibility with generator sets. This meant that we could easily incorporate a standby generator into Brighton General's new UPS; these respective units would then work in tandem, with the 9355 utilising its runtime to temporarily support the load until the generator was activated. This created a system that provided the hospital and its critical apparatus with infallible, continuous power, even during an extended outage.

This solution allowed Brighton General to improve their service and thus the health outcomes of the local community.