Central Florida relies on the Advent Health Celebration healthcare facilities, serving the region through a multi-building campus that includes six multi-story hospital buildings supported by a centralized energy plant. The facility houses 357 patient care beds, in addition to operating rooms, rehabilitation services and other critical healthcare functions.
The campus depends on a complex underground steam and condensate distribution network to deliver essential services throughout the hospital. Steam supports operating room environments, instrument sterilization, domestic hot water production, and building heating and humidity control systems that are vital to patient safety and regulatory compliance.
During a critical moment when a major underground steam line failure threatened those systems, Advent Health turned to Corvant.
At approximately 9:00 p.m. on a Friday evening, Corvant received an emergency call from Advent Health leadership. An underground steam and condensate system had ruptured, causing a significant loss of steam pressure throughout the hospital campus.
The consequences of a complete steam system failure would be severe. Without steam, the facility risked losing sterilization capabilities, operating room support systems, domestic hot water production, heating, and critical dehumidification functions in clean healthcare environments. Patient care, surgical schedules and hospital operations were all at risk. The hospital needed problems solved fast.
The challenge was twofold: maintain steam service to the active hospital immediately while identifying and implementing a permanent repair strategy. Every hour mattered. A prolonged outage could have forced patient relocations, interrupted procedures and created significant operational disruptions across the campus.
Within an hour of receiving the call, Corvant’s operations and field leadership teams were on-site assessing the failure and developing an emergency response plan. The team quickly determined the best way to preserve hospital operations was to install a temporary high-pressure steam bypass around the damaged section of underground piping.
By 10:00 p.m., Corvant had finalized a strategy to route a new 6-inch high-pressure steam main approximately 400 linear feet across the facility courtyard, connecting the central energy plant to the main hospital building above ground. This temporary bypass would allow the hospital’s existing boiler systems to remain operational while permanent repairs were developed.
Executing the plan required an extraordinary overnight mobilization effort. Corvant coordinated with vendors, equipment suppliers and industry partners to locate approximately 500 feet of 6-inch Schedule 40 steel pipe, along with valves, fittings, steam traps and specialty materials. Heavy equipment, including forklifts, excavators and vacuum trucks, was also sourced and delivered under emergency conditions.
Working through the night, Corvant leveraged inventory from active projects, coordinated material deliveries from trusted partners, and mobilized crews, welders and truck drivers across the region. By 2:00 a.m., materials and equipment had arrived on-site, and installation began immediately.
Corvant’s pipefitters and welders worked continuously to install the emergency bypass, including expansion loops designed to protect the temporary system from thermal movement and future stress. Crews excavated, assembled and welded the bypass line while simultaneously preparing for the critical shutdown required to transition service away from the damaged underground infrastructure.
After nearly 24 hours of continuous planning, fabrication and installation, Corvant successfully completed the tie-in and activated the bypass system late Saturday evening.
Once the hospital was stabilized, Corvant investigated the root cause of the failure. Excavation revealed extensive deterioration of underground steam trap piping connected to multiple manhole locations throughout the campus. Recognizing the potential for additional failures, Corvant recommended additional repairs.
Working closely with Advent Health and Brasfield & Gorrie, the team implemented a long-term solution that included temporary boiler systems to support hospital operations while permanent repairs were completed. Over the following weeks, Corvant fabricated and installed a new dual-jacketed steam and condensate system serving multiple underground steam trap locations, significantly improving reliability across the campus steam network.
By 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, less than 27 hours after the initial emergency call, the hospital was operating at full capacity with the ruptured steam system successfully bypassed and no major impact on patients, staff or hospital operations.
Corvant’s rapid response prevented a potentially catastrophic loss of critical healthcare services and provided Advent Health with both an immediate recovery solution and a long-term infrastructure improvement plan.
The project ultimately expanded beyond emergency response to include comprehensive repairs across the underground steam distribution system. These additional repairs reduced future risk and improved system reliability throughout the campus.
Most importantly, the effort reinforced a relationship built on more than two decades of trust. Advent Health relies on its long-standing partnership with Corvant when operational continuity and patient care are on the line.
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