This project consisted of the evaluation, planning, and design for the campus chilled water and steam generating systems. The existing CDC campus was served by a central chilled water and boiler plant. A comprehensive master plan including security measures was developed. It was determined that the CDC would construct a second plant and interconnect the two plants.

Once the decision was made to install the second campus plant, the design and final detailed master plan were performed concurrently. The new plant was planned to have a total capacity of approximately 20,000 tons of chilled water and 240,000 PPH of steam. The distribution systems were installed within new tunnels.

The chilled water and steam generation and distribution portion of the project was operational in the summer of 2003.

One of the many unique aspects of the plant was the specific design for the cooling tower to provide a “white noise” source for the adjacent campus and lake, as well as the design for an innovative distributed chilled water pumping system. In addition, the plant utilizes natural gas and “green” distillate oil that has a sulfur content within 0.3%.