Press Release

EMCOR Group, Inc. Subsidiaries To Provide Electrical And Mechanical Infrastructure For University Of California San Diego Medical Center Facility

NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, July 1, 2008 - EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500® leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services for a diverse range of businesses, announced that its Dynalectric Company and University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors, Inc. (UMEC) subsidiaries have been awarded contracts to provide the entire electrical and mechanical infrastructure for the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center's new 128,000 square foot Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center, consisting of a new 4-story structure with two interstitial floors.

 

Dynalectric will provide all electrical systems for the facility including those for its fire alarm safety system, nurse call center, and security and telecommunications and systems. UMEC will provide the HVAC, including air handlers that deliver over 200,000 cfm, and plumbing systems for the Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center. The Cardiovascular Center will include patient care areas for UCSD's Thornton Hospital and will unify its ambulatory, clinical and inpatient heart and stroke care. It will integrate more than 20 examination rooms, four cardiac catheterization labs, four cardiac-sized operating rooms, 24 intensive care and intermediate care beds, expanded imaging labs, enhanced clinical research facilities, and an expanded emergency department with a total of 18 private exam stations.

 

"The combination of leading-edge technology and multiple complex systems and operations, not to mention research and patient care facilities, made this project an ideal fit with our extensive healthcare capabilities," said Philip Petersen, President & Chief Executive Officer of Dynalectric. "Hospital systems, by their very nature, are among the most critical and demanding", said Steve Shirley, President & Chief Executive Office of UMEC. "We are very excited about working with the UCSD Medical Center's new Cardiovascular Center on this start-of-the-art expansion, enabling us to demonstrate again our performance to rigorous and exacting specifications for which we have become known".

 

About University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors

University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors is a full service mechanical contractor serving the western United States. With over 80 years experience, the company designs, builds and commissions mechanical systems, including heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), plumbing and piping systems, for commercial, institutional, high tech, industrial and military clients. UMEC also specializes in the installation of sophisticated process piping and high-purity piping for the semi-conductor and pharmaceutical industries, and medical gas systems for the health care industry.

 

Based in El Cajon, California with a branch location in Tempe, Arizona, UMEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE:EME), a Fortune 500® company with over $4.7 billion in annual revenues and a global leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure, and facilities services. EMCOR gives life to new structures and sustains life in existing ones by its planning, installing, operating and maintaining the sophisticated and dynamic systems that create facility environments---such as electrical, mechanical, lighting, air conditioning, heating, security and power generation systems---in virtually every sector of the economy and for a diverse range of businesses around the world. EMCOR's "knowledge in action" slogan reflects its rare combination of global reach with local execution, combining the strength of an industry leader with the knowledge and care of 26,000 skilled employees at 140 locations worldwide.