Building commission awards $2.8M for Oakhill improvements

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Building Commission today awarded a $2,883,000 contract to Prout Boiler, Heating and Welding Inc. of Youngstown to replace chillers and an air-handling unit at Oakhill Renaissance Place.

The chillers serve all of the former hospital complex, and the air handler to be replaced serves the tower wing that was built in 1972. Oakhill is the former Forum Health Southside Medical Center, which the county bought in 2006.

Large units designed to serve the round-the-clock operational needs of a hospital will be replaced with smaller, energy-efficient units more suitable for serving a county office complex that is normally open only during regular business hours, said Joseph Verostko, the county’s mechanical engineering consultant.

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